the invention / of the speed of bamboo scrambles in the hands of the young
/ determined / to serve the elders that fed them first
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“Song 1” by Karmella Cen Benedito De Barros
To celebrate the publication of issue 44.1 Growing Room, we’re delighted to share this song, Song 1, by Karmella Cen Benedito De Barros, Community Engagement Leader for Room. Karmella does incredible work, both inside and outside of this organization, and she was...
Black History Month: Black/Afro-Indigenous Reading and Media List
Tansi! In our final week celebrating Black History Month with the Indigenous Brilliance Collective and Room Magazine, we are excited to share a short, and by no means exhaustive, list of books and media (including Instagram accounts, films, artwork, music, and...
Black History Month on the Room Blog
Tansi, hello! Welcome to our online celebration of Black History Month with the Indigenous Brilliance Collective and Room Magazine. For the month of February, we will be sharing weekly content on the @indigenousbrilliance Instagram page, as well as over here on the...
Letter from the Editor: Issue 44.1 Growing Room
In March 2020, this special extended issue 44.1 Growing Room will be out in the world, featuring writers and artists who were all intended to appear in person at our 2020 Growing Room Literary & Arts Festival, which was cancelled due to COVID-19. We put so much...
Fifteen Forthcoming Titles in the Time of Social Distancing
Thank you so much to Room magazine for inviting me to put together a list of new books I'm excited about this spring and summer. These wonderful authors put so much into their work, so let's give them some love and celebration. Manifest by Terese Mason Pierre (Gap...
Letter from the Editor: Issue 43.2 Devour
Devour. Devour isn't simply ingesting. It's to consume ravishly. To completely and wholly take something in. In June 2020, issue 43.2 Devour will be printed and out in the world, which feels extra special to me at this moment in time. This is the first issue I've...
20 Beautiful Poems You Can Read Online Right Now
We wanted to make sure the writers amongst our community are fully inspired this warm and muggy season for some writing, perhaps in preparation for our annual poetry contest that’s now open, so we invited poet and artist Manahil Bandukwala to share some of her...
Experiencing Chantal Gibson’s exhibit How She Read: Confronting the Romance of Empire
Gibson is a Vancouver-based artist and educator whose work plunges into the fraught territory of school texts and history books with a sewing needle and re-works historical Canadian texts with black thread in order to revise our ideas of history, nationhood, and how...
We Got Next: Emerging Black Writers You Should Be Paying Attention To
At Room, we don’t just look to the past but we also look to the future and it’s looking very bright. Here are some of our favourite black emerging writers who you should be paying attention to. Image: Chimedum Ohaegbu. At Room, we don’t just look to the past but we...
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