2020-2021

Words by: Petula Bowa
Art by: Adrienne Aw

The years everything went dark. Went quiet. We were confined to the careful solitudes of our own homes. Of our own minds.

2020-2021

Bla(c)k Lives Matter (BLM): A Year in Review, A  Lifetime of Change

Words by: Zayan Ismail
Art by: Monica Ouk

I remember when it all started in 2013. Black Lives Matter (BLM)  was never strictly a 2020 thing. Its (grass)roots date back to nine years ago when Trayvon Martin’s murderer was acquitted. At the time, there was strong opposition to BLM, as well as the odd belief that it was simply a fringe movement, and that all lives should matter.

Bla(c)k Lives Matter (BLM): A Year in Review, A  Lifetime of Change

That Home

Words by: Xenia Sanut
Art by: John Paul Macatol

I wake up to butterflies. Paper butterflies circle the ceiling above me. With the butterflies, photographs hang from thin strings. They mark the places I’ve been, the friends I’ve made and lost, my family — whether they be in the room next to me, an ocean away, or looking down at me — either from heaven or from those photographed moments in time

That Home