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If memories are just stories we tell ourselves, how can we write our lives?

Fawn Parker's new novel What We Both Know shows why it's so hard to write the truth while trying to work through past traumas.

Black Ark, a 12-ft structure modelled after slave ships, asks us to see Canadian history differently

Made for the Luminato Festival, the piece is meant as both a memorial to Africans lost to the slave trade and a monument to the history of Canada’s first Black settlers.

Krystle Silverfox moved from B.C. to the Yukon — to a town so small it doesn't have an art supply store

The Sobey Art Award nominee is rethinking how she makes art as she prepares for her upcoming show at the National Gallery in Ottawa.

Playwrights assemble: 10 theatre companies are teaming up to give LGBTQ artists a dreamy opportunity

The National Queer & Trans Playwriting Unit will give 5 Canadian artists a living wage and one-on-one mentorship as they write a new work to be staged in 2023.

There's a massive free catalogue of Indigenous films online — here are 5 picks to get you started

For your consideration: 22 LGBTQ actors who deserve 2022 Emmy nominations

After blanketing Toronto with psychedelic murals, street-art duo Clandestinos is moving inside

Trojan Girls embraces the live-and-in-person future of theatre — safely and with a twist

First-time showrunners Romeo Candido and Amanda Parris on how to trust your vision and own your voice

With her musical Dixon Road, Fatuma Adar is rewriting what it means to be from Toronto

This book aims to make sex-ed for kids and teens a little more colourful and a little less awkward

Shailee Koranne

After a two-year wait, Edward Burtynsky brings massive climate change exhibit to Toronto's Yonge-Dundas Square

Queer as Folk, rebooted by Canada's Stephen Dunn, has arrived right when LGBTQ folks need it most

The media tainted the story of trans jazz musician Billy Tipton. This film wants to tell his truth

Montreal's MURAL festival wants both locals and tourists to 'rediscover their old streets'

Santee Smith's latest work is a family affair, one involving four generations of Kahnyen'kehàka artists

Here's the 2022 Sobey Art Award shortlist

Fire Island revolutionizes the queer rom-com by reimagining Jane Austen

Gay culture has grown toxic with unchecked privilege. It's time for us to reset

Harvey Fierstein is a living legend we can all learn from — and you can start by reading his book

The remarkable story of Howard Ashman, who changed Disney forever while battling AIDS

Dear Will Munro: Love letters to a beloved artist and community builder, 10 years after his passing

The 10 most anticipated queer films and TV shows coming out in 2022

Anne-iversaries

How Sex and the City 2 singlehandedly destroyed the entire franchise's legacy

Anne T. Donahue

The 200 most iconic queers in cultural history, part four

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