In a moment where legal institutions are stripping away trans rights in the US, trans people have started to conceive of trans futures as an alternative way of promoting justice for their communities. Trans futures are a transformative project wherein...
GUTS partnered with the just fem things podcast to bring you this special episode for REVENGE. This episode of just fem things was written, produced, and hosted by Toronto Metropolitan University English graduate students: Kevin Ghouchandra, Chloe Gandy, and Waleed...
By Celeste Trentadue, Shadman Chowdhury-Mohammad, Sana Fatemi and Sylvana Poon Trigger Warning: The following article discusses the topic of rape and references accounts of sexual assault. At the beginning of the 2021 school year, there were numerous reports of sexual...
I don’t give a fuck what you think about me / And I don’t give a fuck ’bout the things that you do / And I don’t give a fuck what you think about me, what you think about me...
By Robyn Finlay, Christina McCallum, Alina Khawaja and Nadia Ozzorluoglu In an age of work-from-home, Zoom school, and digital socialization, boundaries between being on-the-clock and off-the-clock diminish while screen time skyrockets. Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, working, exercising, sleeping, socializing,...
How many times have I resolved to get my life together, straighten things out, get back on track after a hard day, bleak winter, an indulgent holiday, or a bad breakup? At this point, I’ve lost count. I am certain,...
Richard brought a painting home. It was a painting of a man holding an umbrella. Or, he wasn’t holding an umbrella. It was a painting of several men falling from the sky like drops of rain. None of those men...
The death of Mahsa Amini when she was in police custody in Iran has ignited a global movement in support of Iranian women, girls, and their supporters. Despite the community mobilization in Iran, Canadian media has been hesitant to portray...
content warnings: rape, sexual assault, murder, attempted murder, mental illness, pregnancy loss, kink/BDSM, consensual trauma play, chronic illness, disordered eating, body horror. little deaths this is how to take the man out of complicity: killed backpacker – – – –...
Lauren Crazybull has been quietly developing her painting craft alongside her community for years. An art industry increasingly measuring itself within the metrics of “equity, diversity, and inclusion” has ascribed many labels to Crazybull’s work: Indigenous, feminist, and queer. Art,...
Are Indigenous women really “intimidating,” “crazy,” and “aggressive,” or are Canadians more likely to be forgiven for feeling and expressing settler rage? Jennifer Komorowski and Cara Peacock discuss Indigenous women’s rage and madness. Jennifer Komorowski: My dissertation research focuses on...
This time of anticipation is itself a kind of queer liminality, living always in anticipation of the moment that has not yet arrived… –Alison Kafer, Feminist, Queer, Crip Despite what inspirational stories will have you believe, the judgments of who...
Growing up with Guyanese and Trinidadian backgrounds, weight was always a subject of discussion, and rarely in a neutral or positive way. Many of my family members are fat. You’d think that fatness would be normalized but it is in...
I really wish that this revenge tasted sweet. I wish that I could find a modicum of snarled “I fucking told you so”–type joy in the recent news from south of the border. Roe v. Wade, a privacy case itself,...
Dear Jas, Arielle, Emily, Nickita, Brandi, I can’t help but be embarrassingly earnest. Being a part of the GUTS editorial collective, working with you all, and seeing this stunning REVENGE issue come together has been really beautiful. The theme, too,...
Mean Old Ladies Monstrous mothers are not a new development in horror. In 1960, Alfred Hitchcock would set into motion the first hagsploitation cycle with his popular adaptation of Robert Bloch’s novel of the same name: Psycho. In the now-classic...
GUTS is back, bbs! We are a collective of feminist editors who don’t see our communities’s interests represented in Canadian and American media and publishing. We were able to get where we are today—positions where we can support and mentor...
The REVENGE Issue there are many hungers— no matter, i am not the hungry one here. — jaye simpson, “beautiful monsters in uncanny valley,” it was never going to be okay We are witnessing a shift in the ways history...
