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ISSUE NO. 1| October/November 2025 | VOLUME 7

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On Healthy Masculinity

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Photo of Feels Zine’s “Sexy” issue by Melissa Blackall

Artist Spotlight: Feels Zine

[Q]ueer romances have far fewer representations in the media, and often the ones we do aren’t written by us, and are rooted in pain and trauma. This, for me, is a huge part of why I believe queer love stories are so important to share–because seeing ourselves represented gives those of us who don’t yet feel safe or seen a place to have their experiences reflected back and honoured.

Mikaela Brewer

Feb 95 min read

Book Review: All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews (2014)

It’s been a really long time since I have had such a visceral reaction to a book. Around a month or so ago, a good friend of mine recommended Miriam Toews’ All My Puny Sorrows after realizing we shared the same love of books that hold the capacity to destroy their reader.

Abbigale Kernya

3 min read

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Writers Room | ICE Murders: Lives in Slow Motion

They say that in the last seven minutes of brain activity, approaching death, a person re-experiences their whole life. Others say it’s just surges of memory and awareness. Me? I’m a writer. At least half of my life happens in my head with characters I’ve never met. But they’re the residue of not only people I’ve known, but people I’ve passed in life—on streets, at schools, in restaurants. Mothers, poets, fathers, cooks. So I say, why not?

Mikaela Brewer

4 min read

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Poet’s Corner: “Rosa Parks” by Nikki Giovanni

In 1971, Nikki Giovanni spoke with James Baldwin at length in A Dialogue (also released as a book). When I first read it, not long after she passed away in December 2024, the texture and resonance of her voice felt like double-sided sticky tape. It hasn’t left me, and sticks to what I read now. Her conviction is unparalleled not only in its power but in its grace; grace as in its dexterity of love. And for that reason alone, I struggled to choose just one poem for this essay.

Mikaela Brewer

3 min read

Charlie Kirk: You Can't Pick & Choose Your Martyr

by Abbigale Kernya

More than a few Bad Apples

by Gillian Smith-Clark

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Remember That we are Survivors

by Asante Haughton

International daily newspaper from Thursday 5th November 2020 – Le Monde (France) & The Ne

When the Bad News Doesn't Stop

by Maureen Pollard

Finding the Light

by Maureen Pollard

Life Outside the Box is a youth mental health podcast that takes a deeper dive into the issues that affect youth – from a youth perspective.

NEW Episode coming Dec. 1st: "Questioning the Systems We're In: Empowering Honest Conversations about Suicide" with Media Producer, Speaker and Activist Cal Campos, Senior Editor Mikaela Brewer, and 'Life Outside the Box' hosts Asante and Abbigale. *Please note there is an activation warning for this episode.

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