Landback in Our Lifetime
  • + Editor’s Note

  • Newest Magazine
  • Conversations with the Past
  • 2023

Landback is a term that has been gifted to us from its inevitable future. Now that it has found us, we have a collective responsibility of maintaining this conversation with a future that is telling us it has already happened. 

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Non-Linearities of Queerness

  • Newest Magazine
  • Imaginarium Issue
  • 2022

An exploration of life that takes place at life’s time: a boisterous “teenagehood” that emerges mid-age, a contemplative elderhood that emerges at the age of five—what if our life cycles took on a freeform? What intergenerational communities may emerge from the pull of our own becoming?

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  • The Javanese Calendar

  • ROOM Magazine
  • Ancestors Issue
  • 2020

Titled after a Popular Science magazine article from the 1800’s of the same name, this piece is an exploration of Elders through the archives. Examining the spiritual technology of time keeping through nature, how ancestral memory is embodied and questions our role in bringing back traditions from our lineage that have been “out of use.”

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Searching for Hogan’s Alley’s Cemetery

  • SAD Magazine
  • Death Issue
  • 2020

This piece explores a question posed during a neighbourhood tour of the razed community: where were residents buried? Featuring the archival work and experiences of Dr. Cheryl Thompson, this article looks at the current empathy gap in colonial record keeping and imagines what the future of community archives could look like. 

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What My Spiritual Survivalism Owes Hip-Hop

  • Reconstructed Magazine
  • Body Issue
  • 2020

What does it mean to have a physical relationship to the Ummah? This personal essay is a mystic’s exploration of corporeal expressions of belief through some of hip-hop’s greatest including Mos Def, Q-Tip, Lupe Fiasco – all of whom happen to have an identity in Islam. 

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Portals: Decolonizing Futures Through Time Travel

  • SAD Magazine
  • Future Issue
  • 2020

This piece explores language and ritual as a way to bend time and create a connection to the so-called past. Featuring Dr. Dara Kelly and her thesis on the economy of affection, this transformative conversation suggests that there is no such thing as cultural “loss” – only dormancy. 

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