The first Emancipation Day marked freedom for Black Canadians: the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 went into effect in British colonies on August 1, 1834, ending the legalized bondage, forced labour, and torture of enslaved Africans and their descendants. From this...
Hope Lauterbach is a writer, poet, and founder of the Unbound Reading Series. Today, our Managing Editor Chimedum Ohaegbu interviews her on Unbound’s most memorable moments, six years since its inception, the notion of rest in cultural work, and dreams for the...
The current genocide in Sudan, carried out by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and supported by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) against the Sudanese people, is the world’s largest humanitarian crisis with over 13.6 million people–families, scientists, schoolchildren,...
What does it mean to belong, whether it's to a place, a time, a community, a person, or something else entirely? Room Magazine invites unpublished writing and visual art, including graphic forms, for issue 50.1 on the theme "Belonging," edited by natasha gauthier,...
Kai Cheng Thom is above all a storyteller whose distinctive, mythopoetic voice channels something deep, ancient, and wise, all while staying grounded in our present moment and the specificities of her life. We turn to Thom’s writing when everything, including our...
In our Pride Month Statement for 2025, we at Room Magazine emphasized the importance of not allowing corporate interests define Pride, but rather the people to whom Pride belongs: the queer Black and brown people who bleed for it, riot for it, and care for their...
This statement was written in amiskwacîwâskahikan on Treaty 6, and Room’s collective members live on stolen lands all across so-called Canada, labouring in Moh’kinstsis, Tkaronto, Wînipêk, and on the traditional and stolen territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam),...
Photo of Leila Chatti by Marcus Jackson. Photo of Rebecca Mangra by Brittany Carmichael. Named one of Electric Literature's Best Poetry Collections of 2025, Leila Chatti's poetry collection Wildness Before Something Sublime deftly navigates the imbrications of...
Writers and artists: stay juicy this summer with this curated call for submissions! Calls for submission: Artists PRISM International | Art *for Revelry issue | By June 11 Geist | Art and Photography | By June 16 Strange Horizons | Original art | Ongoing SAD...
Photo credit: Hamza Abouelouafaa Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch is one of the rare writers who fluently creates across genres and identities. knot body (Metatron Press, 2020), their debut collection, artfully weaves poetry, essay, and letters throughout to confront how...
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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