“So what kind of things did you see?” (Bervoets). Kayleigh is in debt, and her new job at Hexa as a content monitor for an unnamed social media platform has a nice paycheque that just might get her out of it. All she has to do is stare at a screen and remove offensive videos and …
“It’s hard…I’m forty-four and I don’t know what I want to be when I grow up,” (Nugent 149). Sally Diamond doesn’t understand why everyone is acting like she did something wrong. Her father told her to put him out with the trash when he died, and that’s exactly what she’s did. But now the media …
“Memories are time travel, and so are regrets, hopes, and daydreams. When we die, the people we love carry us forward into it,” (Smale 295). Cassandra Penelope Dankworth knows what she likes (wearing colour-coordinated jumpsuits during the weekday, her boyfriend Will) and dislikes (her job, change). Cassandra enjoys her predictable life until one day everything goes …
I received this book from The Next Best Book Club in exchange for an honest review. “It began many years ago, in the first love of shadows. The first knowing of the body’s dark, the curve around its shape holding darkness,” (Jopp 240). Sonya Hudson’s life has been dominated by a severe phobia of cats since she was …
“Queer life experience is different; queer cultural experience is different. Why not reframe stories using existing tropes rather than cookie-cutter it instead? That’s also what ‘queering’ means: to disrupt, reframe, challenge and question how it’s always been done,” (Garside 21). I always find the popularity of Schitt’s Creek a source of pride and humour on my end. As …
“You can burn a book or a library, but to really destroy a story you have to destroy the language and its people. Or write another one,” (Barwin). After an unfortunate incident in his youth that left Motl ball-less, he has decided to go on a quest to find them and, hopefully, procreate. Except that …
“Love…is potent and powerful — it gives pleasure, meaning. But it also dominates, weakens, is a beast greedy and selfish, requiring constant sacrifice. To love is to cede our own power, an act of surrender we cannot guarantee will be returned,” (Keetch 203). Morgan of Cornwall lives a happy life with her mother, father, and …
“She’s seen the Earth from above. She’s traveling through an undiscovered universe, on her way to a place no human has touched. And when they arrive, she will create a new world, a good world,” (Willis 312). Amber Kivinen is going to Mars. Maybe. If she wins the hit new reality TV show MarsNow she’ll …
I received this book from Playwrights Canada Press in exchange for an honest review. Estranged cousins Kat and Eli meet online and bond through their queer identities, though both live very different lives. Kat lives in Toronto with her two gay dads and is out and proud herself, passionate that everyone should be comfortable and proud about …
“I need to write the next best thing. And then another. Otherwise the sales will whittle down, and people will stop reading my work, and everyone will forget about me…And then when I die, I won’t have left any mark on teh world. It’ll be like I was never here at all,” (Kuang 259). June …
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