Science is both a lexicon for what we know and a field of exploration for what we don’t know yet. In Room Magazine’s Science, as in science, we will savour curiosity, question orthodoxy, dig into hidden histories and understudied areas, and titrate, examine,...
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...
In February, Room opened for Issue 48.4. We asked you to take risks for this unthemed issue and named our topics of interest: urgency, complicity, past & present, Afrosurrealism, Indigenous futurism, a free Palestine, & more. Our issue editors, Sadie Graham,...
Asian Heritage Month Statement and Reading List In 2025, we celebrate 23 years since, following a motion proposed by Senator Vivienne Po in December 2001 and officially declared by the government in 2002, May became a valued time to recognize Asian Heritage Month in...
On Saturday, April 26, 2025, an individual drove their car through a crowd at the Lapu-Lapu Day Block Party, killing at least 11 people, injuring dozens, and impacting thousands. Those attending the Lapu-Lapu Day Block Party included friends and families, elders and...
As we shake off the long winter, we hope your creativity is creeping out of hibernation, too. Here’s a spring list of opportunities, calls for submissions and contests, grants, and more! Calls for submission: Artists ROOM Magazine | Art and photos for...
Room is experiencing a temporary delay in circulation affecting orders of issues 47.4 Full Circle, 48.1 Wits End, and back issues ordered before March 2025. Room’s operations are carried out by a small staff team. Our Publisher is working to ship out delayed issues...
On April 9, Palestinian journalist Ahmad Mansour was burned alive by the Zionist entity in an airstrike. He joins a infuriatingly long list of Palestinian writers, artists, cultural workers and journalists made martyrs by this latest iteration of “Israel’s” relentless...
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...
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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.
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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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