Writer Shereen Rana explores the role of stories and fiction in not only her life but society at large. Through a lyric essay, she delves into the urge and need to contextualize and re-contextualize our feelings, circumstances, and the world around us. Join her as she questions the impact of storytelling and shares her personal journey in understanding its importance.

In this essay, Regina shares her experience and mixed feelings upon returning to university as the world is starting to open back up again. Note: this piece was written earlier in April 2022.

Maya shares her experience with loneliness and how she came to accept the daunting feeling.

Content Warning: depression and eating disorders

In this personal essay, writer Sophie Ellis-Lloyd reflects on what her experience and training as a dancer have taught her about identity, body image, and her own mental and physical health.

Writer Phoebe Nerem shares her journey in identity and experience as a nonbinary person through the lens of womanhood.

Writer Joyce Chen discusses hoarding and how it is connected to ones mental health.

Writer, Sophie Lloyd reflects on human resilience, most specifically in the emotional aspect, while she discusses her insecurities and the lessons she’s learned as she navigates her first secure relationship.

Writer Emily Van Ryn discusses how Tik Tok users have taken to writing their own verses to Bo Burnham's song 'That Funny Feeling' from his latest Netflix special "Inside" and how the song itself resonates with the anxieties of Gen-Z.

Writer Isabel Mavrides-Calderón discusses the issue of sexual assault within the disabled community as well as the harmful stigmas they face, and lack of belief in their cases.

Writer Regina Aileenteena pulls on our heartstrings through this letter to her mother which reflects on the ups, downs, and one-of-a-kind love there is in a mother-daughter relationship.

Writer Regina Aileenteena writes about her personal mental health journey, as well as the importance of letting yourself feel your emotions, opening up to others, and asking for help.

Abbey reflects on her relationship with her body from her teen years up until now in this personal essay. Trigger warning: experiences with sexual assault and harassment is shared.

Rosie Shackleton interviewed a series of creatives how the pandemic has affected their practice and the future of the arts. Each of them touched on topics like going digital, feeling unmotivated, adapting, and most importantly, creating.

Writer Emily Van Ryan writes about the circumstances surrounding the Line 3 pipeline, the ongoing fight for Indigenous land rights, and provides resources on how you can help.

Writer Rosie Shackleton reflects on what it means to be “mediocre” while living through a pandemic and celebrates having the ability to make it through day-to-day life and adjust to a new normal in this essay.

Writer Emily Van Ryan talks about their experience with mental health, going down the “rabbit hole” of intrusive feelings and thoughts, as well as offers resources and exercises to help cope with these thoughts.

British writer Rosie Shackleton writes about her experience with East Germany’s FKK (free body culture) and going for a nude swim at one of its lakes revived her ideas of her own personal body image.