Last month Haymarket Books hosted an interview with novelist and activist Arundhati Roy and moderator Imani Perry about the Covid-19 health crisis and its implications across the globe on public health, human rights, and policymaking. The interview explored Roy’s ideas in her widely-quoted essay published in the Financial Times. In it she writes: “Historically, pandemics … Read More
Chippy Nonstop is a visionary DJ and producer currently based in Toronto. Chippy is known for throwing parties that are affordable, inclusive, and by and for the queer POC community. As one of the creators of Intersessions, she helped to create a series of free DJ workshops for femmes and women of color to share … Read More
Amsterdam Ave. is a new web series written, produced by, and starring Dionne van den Berg and Pooja Tripathi. It is set to be released this November. The series follows the stories of Maya and Kyran, two young women following their dreams in a new country. Kajal spoke with van den Berg and Tripathi about … Read More
The new single by New York-based Ashou, released September 2019 and aptly called “New Beginnings,” is a catchy, dreamy song that feels like driving with the windows down to take a break from a doomed society. “Listen to the evening news / Prophet of atrocities / Please turn off the television” – this is a … Read More
Ahsun Zafar is the South Asian-Canadian creator behind @brownhistory, the Instagram account providing “historical doses of South Asia” to its nearly 200,000 followers. Zafar curates a selection of images and stories from an impressively wide variety of sources ranging from fan submissions of family photos to televised interviews with state leaders. Through @brownhistory, Zafar offers … Read More
Eight men were murdered in Toronto, their bodies dismembered and placed into more than dozen fiberglass garden planters on a residential property on Mallory Crescent. This was the same Leaside neighborhood where self-employed landscaper and occasional mall Santa Bruce McArthur worked. Fragments of bodies were found in a wooded area adjacent to the property as … Read More
