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Author: Elisa Penha

catch, stitch, release

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Artwork by Jamie Mann   Somewhere in Eastern Europe, 1974   The atelier was a brick building sitting […]

Posted on December 22, 2025December 23, 2025 Issue 17Toronto

liar, liar

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Edited by Alloe Mak If you met me between the ages of eight and twelve, you might’ve thought […]

Posted on October 15, 2025October 15, 2025 Issue #16Toronto

achilles on skyros; forty-niners in drag

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Edited by Alloe Mak 753 BCE There are no women in Rome. Romulus built the city with vagabonds […]

Posted on June 30, 2025October 15, 2025 PRIDE 2025Toronto

in vain, beloved boy (seven myths, a girl, and a garden)

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“giddyup!” he said, his fist wrapped tightly around my ponytail. i had long hair, then, down to my […]

Posted on May 31, 2025June 30, 2025 May FlowersToronto

robolove

So, to love a robot is to love yourself. 

Posted on February 14, 2025February 14, 2025 Valentines

As it ever was, so it will be again (words on Achilles)

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My friends and I deal a lot with prophecy. Let me tell you some of my favourite ones. 

Posted on August 3, 2024August 3, 2024 Issue #13

Bosie

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I picture this: two hands 
meet in the darkness, and for a moment, real love existed like
no other had before.

Posted on July 1, 2024August 3, 2024 PRIDE 2024Toronto

Re-Secularizing Les Misérables

Special thanks to Taylor Lipson—a conversation with whom inspired this piece.

Posted on May 31, 2024 Issue #12

existential and cannibalistic misadventures on hannigram tumblr

the first words doctor hannibal lecter say to will graham on nbc’s hannibal are “do you have trouble with taste?”

Posted on February 29, 2024 Issue #11

Queering Christianity: A Brief Word on Gay Angels in Pop Culture

I have been thinking about David Tennant. 

Posted on November 30, 2023 Issue #10

That Time One Guy Blew Up The City of Troy and the Horror of Missing History

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How much do you know about the ancient city of Troy?

“Trojan War?” you say, probably. “Achilles? Big horse with people inside?”

Posted on August 5, 2023August 5, 2023 Issue #9

The Big Birdcage In the Sky

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I had a pet bird once. He was called Jonathan. 

Posted on August 5, 2023October 17, 2025 Issue #9

Sparse Anecdotes From a Bad Ballerina: A Small Retrospective On Fifteen Years of Classical Ballet Training

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Smile wide and stand up for yourself. And most of all, love yourself unapologetically, because ballet isn’t going to. 

Posted on June 25, 2023June 25, 2023 Issue #8

Storyless

Why must we only validate the art that stems from suffering?

Posted on June 3, 2023November 29, 2023 Individual Drop

Someone Will Remember Us

I own five copies of Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief. 

Posted on April 24, 2023June 25, 2023 Issue #7

Rabbit-Moon

By Elisa Penha There’s a rabbit on the face of the moon.  Well—the shape of a rabbit mapped […]

Posted on February 22, 2023February 22, 2023 Issue #6

Queerness as Currency—A Heartstopper Retrospective

Show me who you are on the inside.  Divulge yourself to an audience of thousands—perhaps millions. Do you […]

Posted on February 22, 2023April 25, 2023 Issue #6

Maybe I’m Not Burning Out – Maybe I’m Just Lazy. (Gifted Kid Burnout and Other Lies I Tell Myself)

By Elisa Penha I was diagnosed as gifted when I was seven.  Diagnosed. That’s the wording they used—like […]

Posted on January 28, 2023November 29, 2023 Individual Drop

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