I’m sleeping on my mom’s couch. It’s not an ideal living situation, but the couch is comfortable, and the view is amazing. I get gently trampled by her two cats at odd times in the night, and my mom has to keep quiet as she leaves for work. It has…

Sometimes, it feels like the most important people in my life are gone. Like my grandfather. That giant of a man, who brought our family together every Friday, and gave us a sense of history and permanence. Or Katarina, who left me one day over the phone, and eventually blocked…

I’m ashamed of who I am. I used to think it was OK to feel bad about myself all of the time. It’s been my baseline for most of life so far. I’ve been ashamed of who I am, and I’ve tried many things to help remove the shame. At…

There is no one reason why I make art. But there is one very important one. I can never make peace with losing the people that I’ve lost in life. Breakups, death, moving away. I feel like there aren’t enough lifetimes to deal with that kind of loss. When I…

Show, don’t tell. Show, don’t tell. Show, … Don’t tell… I can’t tell you what I look like. I can show you what it’s like to embody me. The me that you see. A constant becoming. Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck. I don’t know anymore. Am I disappearing? Everything I’ve…

There once was a young boy named Mira. He had everything going for him, except for money. His family loved him very much, and he loved them. He had close friends and friendly acquaintances. He said hi to everyone on his way to school, and they waved or said hi…

Community. What does it mean to you? To me, there are associated words that come up when I think of community. I think of people. I think of warmth. I think of closeness, togetherness. I think of a sense of belonging. It’s what we lack so crucially in times like…

I am a first-generation immigrant. I arrived in Montreal in 2010, and settled here with my brother and our parents. I was only 10 at the time, and North America was a place I sometimes saw on TV. It was the place where pirated VHS cassettes of Disney cartoons presumably…