Editorial Note: Futures
What do you see when you look toward the future? The sixth issue of GUTS features some politicized and generative envisionings. Start with a letter from our editors
What do you see when you look toward the future? The sixth issue of GUTS features some politicized and generative envisionings. Start with a letter from our editors
“Over the years tending to my skin has become ritual. It was my self-care before I knew what self-care was.” TK Matunda on the transformative and potentially revolutionary power of her bed-time skin routine
waaseyaa’sin christine sy relfects on how colonial legislation has altered Anishinaabeg relationships to the land and calls for (re)matriation, starting in the sugar bush.
Evelyn Deshane on how a small but expanding market of romance novels is changing the way we imagine transgender lives
Maura Roberts and Billy-Ray Belcourt get together to discuss radical friendship, a relation that both includes and exceeds allyship, as a life sustaining force in a world of continual crisis
Lindsay Nixon surveys the Indigenous artists making work about displacement, decolonization, and resurgence
Andrea Abi-Karam writes towards a post-gender future.
Pree Rehal names and dissects the hyper-visibility she feels as an Indian woman who engages in disruptive cosplay
Pauline Johnson draws on her ancestor's teachings to illustrate this Nehiyaw girl's guide to surviving environmental disaster
Laura Shepherd writes about how, in order to have a happy future as a fifty-seven-year-old trans woman, she had to learn to forgive
A love letter to Anishinaabe women and two-spirit people by Danielle Boissoneau
For those of us who have emerged in relationship to rather than via self-determination, how does the affirmation of de-person-ness offer a new form of political agency? Johanna Hedva foregrounds interdepency, care, and solidarity in her defence of the undercommons
Jane Komori talks to older adults who are fighting back against misogyny, homophobia, and gentrification
Shailee Koranne grew up in a mostly white Canadian suburb and actively made an effort to build relationships with other women of colour. These relationships are changing her life