From Tkaronto (Toronto), Ontario, Cal has been sharing their story as a Filipinx, Queer, Transgender, Non-binary person for over a decade, prioritizing uplifting the stories of marginalized communities (e.g. 2SLGBTQIA+, PGM/BIPOC).

I’ve been thinking a lot about how much cooler I was as a teenager. I was spunky and rebellious and full of the possibility that my life was on the brink of beginning. 

Lu Duncan’s younger sister, Juni, picked him up from the train station on an unusually warm April afternoon. On his way home from college, Lu entertained Juni’s new bragging rights—her G2. He sat on his plastic suitcase, sweating as his parents’ old car pulled up, the colour of juniper berries. The air smelled stale and damp, congested with December’s road salt and sand.