Trigger warning: mentions of enslaved people, ownership of enslaved people. How far into the past can you trace your ancestry? In our last post, Decolonize Your Bookshelf, we examined the systemic racism existing in education and literary publication and the priority...

As human beings, language is innate and emotional. How many of you have been moved by a song or poem, at a loss for words, stunned into silence? Language is inextricably tied to the human experience. It is the thread that we use to weave stories of the past into...

Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers, stepmothers, aunties, grandmothers, and caregivers!  According to the Merriam Webster dictionary, mother as a noun means a female parent, and a woman in authority. Mother as a verb means to give birth or to give rise to and...

During the month of March, we celebrate and honour the women who fought for the rights and freedoms that we have today. We honour the suffragettes, the women who were “first” in traditionally male roles, the women who stood up for what they believed in and didn’t give...