On this Orange Shirt Day and National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, as the years before, Room Magazine reaffirms our solidarity with the sovereignty of all Indigenous peoples worldwide and in so-called Canada, and our commitment to learning from and materially...
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,...
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),...
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...
Asian Heritage Month Statement + Reading List We at Room Magazine, which publishes from a city whose history and present have been shaped by Asian activists, artists, working people, grandmothers, scientists, and movements, are looking back on this past Asian...
As nationalist sentiment rises alongside a tide of fascism, we at Room have opened our call for submissions for Room 49.3 No Canada, inviting writing and art that presents an alternative lens to sentimental patriotism, interrogates our complicities in imperial...
April 2026 marks the fourth year since Arab Heritage Month was enacted to the House of Commons of Canada in 2022 under Bill C-232, dedicating the month to acknowledging the histories, cultures, and contributions of Arab Canadians. This Arab Heritage Month, we at Room...
Every Black Futures Month & Black History Month, we republish brilliant works and conversations with Black organizers, writers, and artists from Room's past issues, to live on our site in perpetuity. This week, we’re sitting with Danielle Douez's "obsidian...
This Black History/Black Futures Month, In the wake of the current iteration of political violence(s) that define our cultural, social, and political realities, we would be remiss not to draw links between our now and what has come before: the legacies of...
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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