Margins Magazine - Volume 3 Issue 1
2020 has been a year of immense change and upheaval thus far, with our idea around what is normal challenged in the midst of a pandemic. In this midst of these volatile times, our team at Margins Magazine has come together to create Volume 3 Issue 1 of our publication, revolving around the theme of CHANGE. In this issue, our writers have worked hard to bring you pieces that critically discuss the realities of the current moment from advocacy effort across different fields to issues such as domestic violence and colourist. At #UTSC, we connect with Radio FWD and UTERN at UTSC to learn how campus groups are affected during the pandemic and how they are evolving their programming while staying connected with students. We’ve received amazing creative submissions from members of our local community and around the world that have allowed us to curate this issue with stories that truly represent the heart, soul, and pulse of the current times. Bringing together all these voices in Margins has been a true labour of love. We truly hope that the stories, words, and art within Margins resonate with you. Follow us on Instagram @wtcmargins & LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/margins-magazine!
2020 has been a year of immense change and upheaval thus far, with our idea around what is normal challenged in the midst of a pandemic. In this midst of these volatile times, our team at Margins Magazine has come together to create Volume 3 Issue 1 of our publication, revolving around the theme of CHANGE.
In this issue, our writers have worked hard to bring you pieces that critically discuss the realities of the current moment from advocacy effort across different fields to issues such as domestic violence and colourist. At #UTSC, we connect with Radio FWD and UTERN at UTSC to learn how campus groups are affected during the pandemic and how they are evolving their programming while staying connected with students.
We’ve received amazing creative submissions from members of our local community and around the world that have allowed us to curate this issue with stories that truly represent the heart, soul, and pulse of the current times.
Bringing together all these voices in Margins has been a true labour of love. We truly hope that the stories, words, and art within Margins resonate with you.
Follow us on Instagram @wtcmargins & LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/margins-magazine!
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MARGINS<br />
MARGINS<br />
Is this the reaction you signed up for?<br />
Were you searching for the destruction of my foundations,<br />
forming pieces of debris?<br />
Should I shake your hand and say,<br />
“Hello, nice to meet you, people are calling for my genocide.”<br />
I have the opposite reaction from a joke,<br />
laughing harder and harder the more you tell me.<br />
I was learning about population dynamics<br />
the other day, and was taught about how the difference<br />
between intraspecific and interspecific competition is whether or not<br />
the individuals fighting over a limited resource<br />
were part of the same species.<br />
As if you can no longer tell that we’re both human.<br />
As if you’re arguing over who should breathe,<br />
and who should be left to rot.<br />
As if I don’t have a say in your carousel of illusions.<br />
But you love to be guided by your confusion.<br />
You’re the love child of a broken record and a hawk;<br />
Waiting to latch onto your next prey<br />
every time a person label themselves as part of a community<br />
no one invited them to,<br />
Then deliberately does something so immoral<br />
so you can repeat your insults over and over.<br />
Laughter can be so exhausting sometimes, I’m literally sweating! Or<br />
are those tears?<br />
I am terrified of failure; I can never mess up.<br />
For others, when they make a mistake, that’s reflected on them;<br />
I have 1.6 billion people on my back;<br />
so, if I fall, so does everyone else.<br />
Society is a dandelion, and<br />
the wind blows like never before.<br />
And then I realize that there will never be a punchline to this cruel joke.<br />
Deforestation may be the only thing left in our hilarious future.<br />
Your way of having the last laugh is<br />
to squeeze the life out of my identity with your roots,<br />
and mine is to coexist peacefully.<br />
But maybe,<br />
I just have a strange sense of humour.<br />
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