Elseship by Tree Abraham Book*hug Press 282 pages $25 In this dazzling work of creative non-fiction that brings together perceptive prose and mesmerizing visuals, Ottawa-born writer and book designer Tree Abraham theorizes friendship, love, identity, and language by...
Due to a confluence of factors, Room Magazine is posting this 2025 Pride Month feature later than planned. What does it mean to inhabit a body that others may not understand? We're revisiting an excerpt of Addie Tsai's Unwieldy Creatures first published in Room 44.1...
Due to a confluence of factors, Room Magazine is posting this Indigenous History Month feature later than planned. However, Room holds that Indigenous histories, presents, and futures are to be honored year-round, and post this feature now to assert that. What is a...
What does it mean to labour, and what is our relationship to our labour? For our 2025 Asian Heritage Month feature, we're revisiting Kirti Bhadresa's "Tuesday Girl," first published in Room 45.4 Baby, Baby, Baby!. Tuesday Girl by Kirti Bhadresa She calls...
What stories are we told about history, what do we hold as truth, and how do they live in the body? For our 2025 Asian Heritage Month feature, we're revisiting Stephanie R. Lim's "We Have Carried Our Longing," first published in Room 46.1 Around the Table: Asian...
What does it mean to survive the many ongoing crises of our times? For our 2025 Asian Heritage Month feature, we're revisiting Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's "Parliaments on the Stoop," first published in ROOM 41.3 Queer. Parliaments on the Stoop by...
We dream. We journey. We swim through our futures. Today, we transform with “Definitions for Non-Fish” by Shaheen Virk, from our upcoming Room 48.2 Travellers. Definitions for Non-Fish Shaheen Virk Alevin/Fry/Smolt/Juvenile/Adult: the various names of salmon as...
We live in the past, present, and future, and are constantly travelling across these times in our human ways: reflecting, dreaming, manifesting. Today, we’re journeying with “My Name is Kyle” by Claire Fantus, from Room 48.2 Travellers. “My Name is Kyle”...
Photo credit: Yi Shi Janika Oza (she/her) is a writer, editor, and educator based in Toronto. Her best-selling debut novel, A History of Burning (2023) won the 2024 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature and was a finalist for numerous awards including the Carol...
It's time! Here are the winners of the 2024 Short Forms Contest, as chosen by our wonderful judge, Zalika Reid-Benta. Congratulations to these writers on their big success for their short works! --------------- FIRST PLACE: Definitions of Non-Fish, by Shaheen Virk...
ROOM 49.2 SCIENCE
I hope this issue makes you curious and furious, leads to 2 a.m. Wikipedia rabbit holes, fulfills urges to seek out knowledge-keepers. Quickly or slowly, dive in: -ologies of all varieties await you.
ROOM 49.1 No Future for Who?
In Room Magazine 49.1 No Future for Who?, we are really asking. We are coming in hot. We are causing a scene. We are being unreasonable. We are not fucking around. We are not taking “no” for an answer. “No” is the only word we still know. For who? For who? No.
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