fall 2016
Poster by April Alayon.
READERS
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Hasan NamirHasan Namir was born in Iraq in 1987 and came to Canada at a young age. He graduated from Simon Fraser University with a BA in English. He lives in Vancouver. God in Pink (published by Arsenal Pulp Press in fall 2015) his is first novel. Recently, Hasan has won the Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Fiction. He was also featured for Airbnb's Pride video.
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Cicely-BelleCicely-Belle is a Black, queer activist who has lived on Coast Salish land since 2012. They moved here from London, England - a place they never want to set foot in again since Brexit but they do still drink at least 5 cups of tea a day and enjoy queuing in the rain. They love pugs, dinosaurs, red wine and they are a completely unashamed Nickelback fan. When being serious, Cicely-Belle is a Black Lives Matter organizer and a youth worker at Qmunity, for queer, trans and two-spirit youth.
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RJ EDWARDSRJ Edwards is a writer and librarian. Their work has appeared in Capricious Magazine, The Collection: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard, and the "Queers Destroy Science Fiction!" special issue of Lightspeed Magazine. RJ is originally from the tiny and far-away state of Rhode Island, which is not actually an island. They currently live in Vancouver with their partner and their ridiculous cat.
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Jane ShiJane Shi is a Han Chinese settler currently living on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Musqueam, Tsleil-Waututh, and Squamish peoples. The mountains of Zhoushan and Pujiang cradled her family and ancestors, while she was born in Nanjing, Jiangsu and lived and grew up in Shanghai and Richmond. Along steep cliff edges of fear, anxiety, and violence she clings to dreams of more-than survival and safety, of more-than possibilities of trust, community, and freedom. She wants to live in a world where love is not a limited resource, land is not mined, hearts are not filched, and bodies are not violated. In the mean time she will fold dumplings, trace poetry out of the shadows of the english language, and dance the unknown rage within.
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LIsten Chenlisten chen is a capricorn born in the year of the rabbit who lives & writes in unceded coast salish territory.
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Kyla Jamieson
Kyla Jamieson is currently surviving her MFA at UBC and lives and relies on the unceded traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. She edits poetry and prose for SAD Mag and has written for Elle Canada, GUTS, and Rabble. Last year, she worked with Shit Harper Did to troll conservatives and get you to vote.