Read the last post in our Resilience: Resistance series curated by Mirabel aka Avleen K. Mokha with a post from the curator herself. As a person of colour in Canada, I have noticed that artists find it difficult to talk about money. It doesn’t make for casual conversation at a literary event. Understandably. It is hard to bring up money while you use silverware to delicately place cheese over crackers, while holding a glass of wine.

Check out Brandon Wint’s audio essay on identity, empowerment, healing, ancestry and his relationship to his Mother in this poignant audio essay.

On Dec 31, 2017, against all odds, I somehow managed to journey back to Montreal all the way from Mauritius. A couple of weeks earlier, I had travelled to my  [More…]

You usually hear from our children, who speak your language without accent, who speak the language of their ancestors with a foreign accent if at all, who are removed from  [More…]

For the third piece in the carte blanche blog series featuring BIPOC artists, we interviewed Tawhida Tanya Evanson, an Antiguan-Québecoise artist based in Montreal. Tawhida has published two poetry collections.  [More…]