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

An open letter to my fellow white gay cis men: there should be no "returning to normal" after this.

Pandemic Diaries

No sex and the city: With casual intimacy off limits, we are losing out on momentary connections

"I am finding ways to sustain long-term relationships, but I haven't yet found ways to replace these ordinary, ephemeral intimacies."

Maighdlin Mahoney

How much food can you grow and give away under the guise of an art project?

Adam Basanta's Artist Survival Station pushes the limits of the artist residency to distribute free fresh produce in his Montreal neighbourhood.

Don't look away. Artists use sky-typing to expose ICE detention facilities across the U.S.

80 messages will appear in the sky this Independence Day weekend. In Plain Sight is ready for takeoff.

Flamingos, fish...and yes, those are tentacles wrapped around the CBC Arts July logo

Black artists come first: Lessons from Philip Akin after 20 revolutionary years at Obsidian Theatre

I'm the only gay Black man doing stand-up in Canada — but I don't want to be an outlier anymore

Brandon Ash-Mohammed

As the theatre world scrambles to 'do better,' it's time these Black trailblazers get their due

Leah-Simone Bowen

The Doras are going virtual tonight — here's where you can watch the awards live

Virtual art listings for the week of June 29: Your 10 best bets for online events

Anne-iversaries

Are You Afraid of the Dark? showed a generation the spooky magic of storytelling

Anne T. Donahue

What does it mean to be alone? After interviewing dozens of strangers, this play tackles the answers

Black queer voices matter — and these authors are writing a more inclusive future for CanLit

Queer Pride Inside

This Pride, come inside for a digital queer cabaret unlike anything else

Virtual art listings for the week of June 22: Your 10 best bets for online events

Pandemic Diaries

How my son and I are surviving isolation by working on movies together at home

Pandemic Diaries

Quarantining at my parents' house, I left my drag gowns in the closet — but I got stuck there too

Can you weave a landscape? A poem? A memory?

Virtual art listings for the week of June 15: Your 10 best bets for online events

COVID-19 cancelled dating — so what makes this radio sex show so timely?

Canadian cultural institutions have silenced Black voices for years. Can we write a new chapter?

Virtual art listings for the week of June 8: Your 10 best bets for online events

Don't feed the trolls. Write an award-winning play about them instead

For Pride and Indigenous History Month, Margaret August remixed the CBC logo

Virtual art listings for the week of June 1: Your 10 best bets for online events

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