HEAT WAVES

M A H A
"we literally won't settle for anything less"
(page 6)
"i wish we didn't finish the water"
(page 21)
"white fucking audacity"
(page 29 - CONTEST WINNER
W H I T N E Y
M A N A S S I A N
"Girl with leaves 0.2" (page 13)
Maha (she/her) is a queer South Asian Muslim residing in Katarokwi,
or Kingston, Ontario by its colonial name. Maha likes to include lots of
movement in her poetry. She engages with radical transformative
justice in her emphasis on queer futurities, through writing about love
or the scam of electoral politics.
Whitney Manassian (she/her) is a twenty-year-old, Black Italian artist
with a Fine Art background. She likes to explore themes of beauty,
nostalgia, pain and love with a variety of mediums. Manassian is
currently attending her last year of university as an Illustration and
Animation student. Growing up with people trying to fit her into any
sort of box, she knows that the only label that she can accept is free
human. “I love who I love, I am who I am, and I hope everyone can
find peace in who they are.”
Made with oil pastels on an acrylic background part of a series Girls
with leaves, this illustration is Girl with leaves 0.2; on a hot day she's
shirtless, is she really free?l
K O F I
O D U R O
"Noise Amongst the Heat Waves"
featured on page iii
L Í V I A
P E S S Ô A
""Fôlego" (page 2)
A N I L I Y A H
R I C H A R D S O N
"Wonder Lust" (page 28)
T R A M A I N E
"two a.m" (page 19)
"two p.m" (page 20)
Kofi Oduro’s artistic practice is an observation of the world that they
then put into artworks for others to relate to or disagree with.
Through Videography, Poetry and Creative Coding, Oduro tries to
highlight the realms of the human performance and the human mind
in different scenarios. These situations can be described as social,
internal, or even biological, which we face in our everyday lives.
In Noise Amongst the Heat Waves, we are seeing colors emerge from a
noisy terrain. In HEAT WAVES, one is always trying to cool down.
Within this piece, the noisy waves can be considered the dispersion of
heat and the waves that are blue can be the attempt of trying to cool
down.
Lívia Pessôa is a 23-year-old Brazilian artist, majoring in psychology at
the Federal University of Bahia. Pessôa lives in Salvador, Bahia.
Fôlego means "breath", it is a collage that refers to the heat in Bahia and
is connected with Africa portrayed in the work. Real, social, cultural
warmth: you always need to breathe.
Aniliyah Richardson (She/Her) is twenty-two-year-old, African
American writer. She is currently living in Paterson, New Jersey. Her
piece represents living in a distinct place filled with violence, while
trying to make it out by having the strength and the power when
opportunities present itself.
Tramaine (she/her) is a 23 year old poet who lives in Baltimore and has
spent the last four years processing life through poetry. She was born on
the last day of summer and experiences life acutely though temperature.
In two a.m and two p.m, she reflects on her brief and feverish
relationship with a man who never meant to stay.
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