Photo by Chris Wong/iStock In 2005, I was a 15-year-old trans queerdo who had no idea who I was. Living in a sleepy suburb in Ottawa, I didn’t know any trans people and only saw them portrayed in media as caricatures of monstrosity or madness. I was depressed, anxious, and felt like I didn’t belong […] More »

Illustration by Moe Pramanick I hate speaking Tamil. It’s one of the oldest languages still spoken today, dating back to at least 450 BCE, and I’m proud it’s part of my life. It’s the language of my parents, who fled Sri Lanka’s civil war (1983–2009), a conflict that left hundreds of thousands of Tamils killed […] More »