I picked up a racquet again this summer, mostly out of boredom, partly out of some vague nostalgia for a game I never actually learned as a kid. What surprised me wasn’t the sport itself. It was the unexpected barriers standing between me and court time with friends. I want to be upfront about something:…
Did you know that giving birth while lying flat on your back is actually one of the worst positions to give birth in? Yet if you ask any woman who’s gone through labour, chances are she pushed her baby out on her back, legs spread, overwhelmed and in pain. Birth is extremely painful; there’s no…
Safety is one of those words we toss around casually, as if everyone experiences it the same way. As if it isn’t layered with memory, fear, hope, or the quiet calculations people make just to get through a day. For many women and children, safety isn’t a default. It is a distant goal; something strived…
A good chunk of the human population is far removed from the days where physical labour shaped every hour. Now we’re desk-bound, screen-bound, stuck in chairs for eight, ten, twelve hours. Our bodies become these afterthoughts we drag around, only really noticing them when they ache, when our wrists hurt from typing, when our backs…
Canada likes to call itself a mosaic, and honestly, that isn’t just a pretty metaphor. I think it feels true in a lived, real way. You walk through any city and it’s like each street has its own accent, colour palette, different characters on the street, all with their own prerogative. All these little pieces…