You're free to express yourself as an artist sure, but if you're coming to read in Toronto, maybe consider how a poem like this will land with an audience in a city full of refugees from colonial violence and the children of those refugees

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This definition of class has been successfully cultivated since the 70s in part to drive a wedge between private sector unions (mostly men, then mostly yt) and public sector unions (mostly women, including WOC, more likely to have post-secondary education) in a rift that still exists

SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN! ...for BRAVE NEW WEIRD Vol. 4, our annual collection of the best **PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED** New Weird Horror of the year. Eligibility window: stories published between 31st October 2024 and 31st October 2025. All the deets here: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/10...

Those who liked this thread might be interested in this article by Borsook. "...the average geek espouses a world where the only art would be that which has withstood the test of the marketplace..."

I once wrote this comic about a dystopic world where the nation state was an empty container for tech/corp-controlled psuedo-city-states, a bit like the company town but with the feverish branding of national/brand identity. At the time, I thought this was a stretch - 🧵

Cake Zine's next call for pitches is for a rogue 🥩 issue: www.instagram.com/cake_zine/p/... Writer's rates: Shorter pieces (350 words or less), poems, and recipes: $125-$175; Mid-length (500 to 1K words): $200; Longform (2K words - plus or minus): $300 Visual art: Rate based on commission

The Unseen Bookclub is back 🎧 unseenbookclub.buzzsprout.com/1743875/epis...

The linked article is bleak but that bleakness also presents a massive opportunity. Right now, the hunger for something different is so keen, it feels like a great time for people in the margins to connect and create together. No accident Toronto's indie lit and zine scenes are getting interesting

Reading this in conjunction with Liz Pelly's Mood Machine and Will Tavlin's Casual Viewing n+1 article, gives a broader view of how pervasive cultural rot has become... Support indie artists, small press, booksellers, critics, zine fairs <3

I don't know when nightlife changed for me from being about exploration and new experiences to becoming such a balm - to be with people enjoying themselves, people not working toward any goals, meeting beautiful randos with no other purpose than to share a little honesty, one feels restored

Was notified by a vendor that it's now using AI for data entry and is asking its own paying client$$$ to contact them when they find errors 🤡 You're a private company. You do not get to crowdsource free labour. If you cannot pay staff to ensure basic quality control, your biz model is broke

I know it's not officially spooky season yet but I'm starting off my #autumnreads this year with some horror 💀🕸

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Mila Jaroniec, founder of Black Lipstick Mag, will be co-hosting readings with Miss Manhattan 🖤💄 www.instagram.com/missmanhatta...

Saw The Materialists and need to know how a PRIVATE EQUITY INVESTOR scores 10 on all counts? Someone who chooses to work in PE and flip distressed orgs has like -10000 points, I don't care how tall he is. What's the math for fossil fuel execs?

Health PSA for Ontarians 🦠 covid-19 vax is now available for high-risk individuals; general public roll out is Oct 27 flu vax available Oct 14 More info: www.ontario.ca/vaccine-loca...

I'm tabling at the Bookworm Market in Toronto today! Come say hi and grab a zine! It's at 183 Geary avenue.

Read an article today claiming that for Buddhists, the "purpose of life" is to be fine with disappointment and "to embrace pain." The article's not about Buddhism so whatever but uh, no, what any Buddhist will tell you is their goal is to RELEASE SUFFERING lol

The sweet pea flowers I planted made peas 🫛🫛🫛 Going to wait for the pod to split and try planting these next spring #fragrancesky

🚨 BIG NEWS 🚨 We just launched a Kickstarter for a book we’ve been working on for over two years now - a brand new anthology of comics from some of the most exciting cartoonists in China’s alt comics scene! It’s called SYSTEM 01: Hot Net Hotel ✨ www.kickstarter.com/projects/par...

Free poetry workshop from e.jin 🦋

For the east enders, Elastic Mag x MOSAIC is hosting a psychedelic themed art event 🍄

Not sure if it's related but I also love hearing about other people's practices. There is something in the act of practicing - devotion, discipline, creativity, insight. Maybe it's just the pleasure of seeing someone not alienated from their labour...

I once set up a memory palace but I kept forgetting to put anything inside of it.

I've lived long enough to cultivate multiple practices AND be forced to give some up temporarily/permanently. But I've been ok with devoting so much time and effort to a practice only to lose it because how a practice transformed me remained. It's like a chemical reaction, it doesn't reverse.

Don't forget to join us for the launch of The Fiddlehead’s Special Creative Nonfiction Issue! Saturday, Sept 20 | 12:30–3 PM (AT) Fredericton Public Library & Online via Zoom Visit thefiddlehead.ca/304-launch-p...

I'm participating in this Fundraiser Thursday, 25 September, 7-8:30PM at PULP Bookstore 3952 Wellington, Verdun. Free donation Cash or Square at event and email [email protected]. Please share 🍉

Canadians! There is a petition to sign to protest Mastercard and Visa's control over the purchase of legal adult content. This is specifically about the Steam & itchio situation, but language protects adult creators. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... #nsfw #censorship #canpoli @acvalens.net

Geary Art Crawl has been postponed but there will be a couple lit events at Standard Time this month! On the 20th, there will be a book fair at the Geary Ave block party and...

Outdoor Toronto counter-TIFF screening of Gāv (The Cow) (1969), directed by Dariush Mehrjui, deets in 🔗

Seeing Chester Brown riding his bike on the same day I'd planned to watch Sook-Yin Lee's Paying for It feels like such a Toronto moment lol

Happy Labour Day! If the news has been getting you down and you've looking for ways to get involved, many different groups across different sectors in cities worldwide will be out ~Sept 20, deets in 🔗

Tabling with @paradisesystems.bsky.social today in Kensington Market (Toronto) today! Here till 6 at San Cafe (165 Augusta Ave) 👋🏼

Just read a Dirt post sponsored by Chantelle. BUTT's relaunch was backed by Bottega Veneta, 032c is doing runway shows, The Whitney Review runs ads for CdG and GmbH, SSENSE editorial alumni have moved on to i-D and AFM... Imo, lit is the best thing luxury fashion $$ has done for culture recently

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Free virtual AMA with literary agent Sasha Landauer, deets in 🔗 luma.com/9riep3ll

Print submissions for Protean Magazine: Issue VI are now open. Send us your most affecting poems, or your best essay pitches and/or drafts—we want to read your incisive, rigorous, lyrical critiques of American decay, social pathology, and imperial decline. Guidelines: proteanmag.com/submissions

TIL Toronto has an official bee 🐝, Agapostemon virescens, which have shimmery neon green heads and thoraxes www.thestar.com/news/gta/tor...

Upcoming art book show i n Brooklyn, details in 🔗

Adding the artist credit: these portraits were shot by Gabriele Galimberti for his research-based photobook, The Ameriguns www.gabrielegalimberti.com/the-ameriguns/

Big news for authors with out-of-print prose books looking for a new home: We're opening up submissions to our Lost/Found imprint on 9/3! We were so happy to rehome Brooke Shaffner's COUNTRY OF UNDER last year + now we're ready to rehome more. Full details forthcoming, but the pertinent ones are:

I feel like most N.Americans have forgotten the advantages that come with going unseen. In other cultures, keeping things under wraps was/is understood as an adept way to conduct yourself, certainly wiser than laying your cards on the table for the benefit of having total randos like them.

This idea that And or is politically relevant to today also doesn't make sense to me. It's a moving story but to suggest it has real life political lessons and that it's relevant to solidarity building today is like telling someone to learn about or find love by watching romcoms.

For poets: blush has an open call for full-length poetry manuscripts (48-88 pages), details in 🔗

Join us on Tuesday August 19th at Low Bar in Toronto for a poetry fundraiser and celebration of the book launch of "My Voice Cannot Be Bombed" (available for pre-order through iskra books) by Yahya Al Hamarna: radicalcut.blogspot.com/2025/08/pale...

ZINEDUMP is a new Toronto #zinefair that aims to provide a venue for the open expression for independent publications, radical art and ideas. The inaugural fest will be held on Nov. 9th between 12-5pm at the Cecil Community Centre. Applications are due August 31st!!! zinedump.fyi #zines #zinesdiy

CUPE4092 is on a wildcat strike, defying the fed's back to work order: "To legislate us back to work 12 hours after we started? I'm sorry, snowstorms have shut down Air Canada for longer than we were allowed to strike."

When I sowed these seeds, I figured nothing would come of it (black thumb). But the shoots grew so quickly, ngl, it felt kind of demonic. Perhaps there's a lesson here about LIFE persisting in a time of high AQI and climate change - not sure what, but somehow, it eases the sense of loss.