Feminist Art Conference Founder and Room Cover Art Judge Ilene Sova talks about feminist art, women's art and its value. Room talks to Ilene Sova, artist, founder of The Feminist Art Conference (FAC), and judge of our first ever Cover Art Contest about art, feminism...
We chat with writer, poet, painter and social service worker Catia Mendes to talk about art, diversity, and how Canadian literature can be more inclusive. Catia Mendes is one of our featured panelists for our discussion on Diversity in Canadian Literature at the...
We chat with writer, poet, painter and social service worker Catia Mendes to talk about art, diversity, and how Canadian literature can be more inclusive. Catia Mendes is one of our featured panelists for our discussion on Diversity in Canadian Literature at the...
We already peeked into the writing rooms of 5 Room writers. Now let's take a peek into where a few Room editorial collective members do their writing... We already peeked into the writing rooms of 5 Room writers. Now let's take a peek into where a few Room editorial...
From portraying families tormented by terrible secrets to hostile landscapes that forsake their inhabitants, our national writing isn’t afraid to get morbid, creepy or just plain weird—while still somehow maintaining a sense of humour. In no particular order, eight...
Whether it is sharpened HB pencils, inky pens or your reliable laptop, we begin to depend on our tools almost superstitiously. We talked with 5 Room writers about their preferred writing tools. Writers’ lives hold such mystery to us. We are curious to know how a...
Topics discussed: Back to the Future, pornography, dinosaurs, Aamer Rahman, and Granville Street in Vancouver. Doretta Lau splits her time between Vancouver and Hong Kong, where she is at work on a novel and a screenplay. She completed an MFA in Writing at Columbia...
Kayi Wong discusses feminism, young adult literature, and collaboration with beloved graphic novelists Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki. Originally published in Room issue 38.2 "How We Relate." Originally published in Room issue 38.2 "How We Relate" (June 2015)In The...
What it means to co-editors Nailah King and Christina Cooke to be editing the Women of Colour issue, and their advice for Women of Colour who are struggling with whether to submit to Room. Roomie and fellow writer Chelene Knight asks Nailah King and Christina Cooke a...
"We are so similar but we are so different to read. There is so much to reveal in the world." Shani Mootoo was born in Dublin, Ireland, grew up in Trinidad, and moved to Canada more than thirty years ago. She is a visual artist, video maker and fiction...
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ROOM 49.3 NO CANADA
In the new era of CanCon, as feminists and writers it is our task to reject this Canadian exceptionalism, this too-comfortable back-patting. How can we begin to imagine alternative arts economies, Indigenous economies around art, that start with treaty, that align with BDS? What art, what literature, would such a system free us to create?
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ROOM 49.2 Science
Welcome to the Science issue of Room Magazine, where we privilege questions: questions about how to construct better worlds; questions about how to destroy hyper-capitalistic, necropolitical systems; questions that beget questions and new questions.
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