Issue 3: Sex

NO MORE SHIT!

A history of Canada's Stonewall: Craig Jennex spends time with archival ephemera of the gay liberation movement and asks us to stop being silent about police violence in our cities

A GRAPHIC ESSAY

Michelle Martin and Hannah Schneider illustrate their experiences of street harassment and sexual assault in Edmonton—the worst city in Canada to be a woman

WOMEN WHO ABORT

I have never felt like I should say, “I decided to have an abortion because,” or, “I had to have an abortion because.” I have only ever said, “I had an abortion.” Katie Lew on writing beyond choice

D

A couple with the same name navigate the shifting boundaries of their domestic arrangement. A short story by Josée Aubin Ouellette

SURGERY

"Are you getting the surgery?" A collaborative video series by Sarah Hill, Creighton Baxter, and Bug Davidson examines the coercive questioning of trans* bodies

WILD ACTS

"The identities encoded in our physical selves affect our politics, our viewpoints, and the ways that we interact with the world." Kaleigh Trace reflects on disability, sex, and the politics of our bent desires

DIGITAL REMNANTS

In this collaborative undertaking, four artists harness code to explore how physical sex is translated into virtual space. What emerges is a poetic narrative that offers new touchpoints for queer and feminist conceptions of sex

THAT STAYED

How do we find the words to express sexual trauma, when traditional "rape narratives" don't seem to apply? An intimate dialogue between two friends

SEXT ADVENTURE

Kara Stone's Sext Adventure gives technology the chance to talk back about how it experiences sex (NSFW)