Dreaming of Home
Gwen Benaway writes about her first time having sex after SRS - a voyage of fear, pleasure and discovery.
Lives
Fuck Me Up: Submission as Trauma Magic
Clementine Morrigan considers the healing power of BDSM and how the process of surrendering power in a controlled, consensual, chosen situation can be an act of reclaiming power after a lifetime of not having a choice.
One Hundred (and Three) Swims
After Kaley Kennedy's miscarriage, she decides to swim 100 times in 2017. In the water and out, she reflects on queer family-making, increasing the terrain of kinship, and using your body to show up, even when it's hard.
Kwe becomes the moon, touches herself so she can feel full again
Quill Christie-Peters writes about how, as an Anishinaabekwe, masturbation is a revolutionary process of falling in love: with her body and her homelands.
Growing Season
Following a depressive episode, Anne Theriault grew plants, and it forced her to rethink tenderness, failure and self-care.
NDN Weather Report
"You have to work hard in this city if you want to see the land": eyos reports on living in the city as an Indigenous person, creating new worlds through old relations
Wanting to Feel Seen While Wanting to Feel Safe
Thinking about consent and digital bodies, Lorraine C asks how the stories and images we share online, often with hopes of building community, affect us and the people we love.