March 12, 2021

In debut novel Happy Hour, Marlowe Granados delves into world of glamour, parties, and friendship

Marlowe Granados likes to browse. You can tell from the way her living room—the background of our Zoom call—is decorated, in a manner both elegant and curated. Only someone with a good eye can make it look entirely natural. Isa and Gala, the protagonists of her debut novel Happy Hour, also l…

March 12, 2021

Sarah Waisvisz imagines the future of Blackness through monodrama Witness Shift

When Professor Sarah Waisvisz first read Donna-Michelle St. Bernard’s intensely intimate play Witness Shift, she cried. Witness Shift challenges the modern-day policing system with an alternate, …

March 12, 2021

Commerce alum KIRPAL talks two latest singles

For musician Ryan O’Driscoll, Comm ‘17, if you’re not willing to be weird and different with your sound, there’s no point. O’Driscoll, who goes by KIRPAL, got his first guitar when he was seven …

March 12, 2021

Professor Carolyn Smart leaves powerful legacy at Queen’s with Lake Effect 10

Editor’s Note: One member of The Journal’s Editorial Board has contributed to the Lake Effect 10 anthology. Professor Carolyn Smart has been nationally recognized as an incredible writer and edit…

Francisco Corbett: The Artist to Watch

March 9, 2021

Over the past eight months, Francisco Corbett has dedicated himself to being a full-time artist and, as a result, Kingston isn’t boring anymore. With his distinctly bold and bright graffiti-style m…

Kingston Canadian Film Festival: Unpacking ‘The Paper Man’

March 9, 2021

When Tanya Lapointe set out to make a documentary on Claude Lafortune, Quebec’s Mr. Rogers, she had no idea her film would become the swansong for The Paper Man, who passed away in April 2020. Lapo…

Student-run New Work Play Festival sets stage for diverse, modern theatre

March 5, 2021

Editor’s Note: One member of The Journal’s Editorial Board is a co-founder of the Black Swan Production Company. Alysha Mohamed, ArtSci ’22, and Hope Van Der Merwe founded Black Swan Production Co…

New club Good Mourning creates space for Queen’s students to talk about grief

March 5, 2021

Cheyenne Brown, ArtSci ’21, is the founder of a book club where young adults can connect, heal, and discuss their personal experiences with grief. Good Mourning, founded and ratified by the AMS las…

In documentary, Yukon family skips grocery shopping for an entire year

March 5, 2021

One of the many problems COVID-19 has brought to attention is our troubled relationship with food. Queen’s alum and doctor-turned-filmmaker Suzanne Crocker, however, was confronted with this fraugh…

Steven Kostanski’s horror-comedy ‘Psycho Goreman’ filmed in St. Catharines

March 5, 2021

In the film Psycho Goreman, the titular monster was born on the planet Gigax, millions of lightyears from Earth. The movie was shot somewhere a little closer to home: St. Catharines, Ontario. Canad…

Queen’s Student Diversity Project shines spotlight on Black identities in fashion

February 26, 2021

For years, Black artists have been criticized for fashion choices that are now celebrated in the mainstream. Fatou Tounkara, ArtSci’21, is challenging that narrative. She’s president of the Queen…

‘Citizen: An American Lyric’ challenges readers with the reality of casual racism

February 26, 2021

Claudia Rankine’s voice is nothing short of transformational. Her volume, Citizen: An American Lyric, is a book-length poem which illuminates the uncomfortable reality of Black citizens’ everyday l…

The Art of Clanny Mugabe

February 26, 2021

Biography Clanny Mugabe is a second-year student in the faculty of Arts and Sciences. She’s currently majoring in English and would describe herself as heavily inspired by world mythology, speculat…

The Agnes Etherington Art Centre reopens to the public

February 26, 2021

After Kingston moved back to the green zone, the Agnes Etherington Art Centre reopened to the public on Feb. 20with a maximum capacity of 41. In an interview with The Journal, Kate Ducharme, visito…

The Screening Room has reopened for business

February 26, 2021

“[It] feels good to be playing movies again,” Wendy Huot, owner of The Screening Room, told The Journal. The Screening Room is open once again and operating at 25 per cent capacity in accordance wi…

Danielle Hope Edwards: gospel-inspired sound and the healing power of music

February 26, 2021

Edwards’ two recent singles are infused with love. Her songs “Love Stands” and “Your Truth” are filled with stripped down lyrics and the musical influences of soul, gospel, and R&B—giving her…

Documentary at Kingston Canadian Film Festival highlights history of trans icon Billy Tipton

February 26, 2021

Billy Tipton’s reputation as a talented jazz musician was altered by the media when he died in 1989. Now, co-directors Chin-Yee and Joynt are setting the record straight. NO ORDINARY MAN: The Billy…

‘I love the colour palette of childhood’: Sadie Levine on her imaginative artwork

February 11, 2021

Sadie Levine, Con-Ed ’23, has been expressing herself through playful, dreamlike illustrations since she was in high school. Her work is driven by an expression of childhood memories reimagined in …

Poem: Unspoken Words

February 11, 2021

I have to thank you for dancing on tables In the basement of Brock. I took your hand and we rose above the sea of sweaty faces. You flashed me a grin of red lips and I twirled you around the dance …

Brian’s Record Option shares tales from quarantine

February 11, 2021

Quarantine is nothing new to Brian Lipsin, who had to close his beloved record shop for nine months in 2018 after a flood destroyed a third of his stock. Lipsin opened his store, Brian’s Record Opt…

‘How the West Was Won’: nana. talks new EP

February 9, 2021

Nana, CompSci ’21, worked on his new EP every day for six months. The Queen’s artist takes inspiration for his music from the cyclical nature of racial justice and how, over time, very little has b…

Friends of The Screening Room raise over $100,000 for local indie theatre

February 5, 2021

The Kingston community recently rallied together to save beloved independent movie theatre, The Screening Room. Through its Friends of the Screening Room campaign, the theatre raised over $100,000 …

During pandemic, Kingston FrameWorks helps artists enter global market

February 5, 2021

Colin Morris, who runs the framing business his father started in 1982, believes COVID-19 has helped rather than hindered artists who sell their work. “You hear a lot of negative news about how thi…

Author Steven Heighton releases Cohenesque single

February 5, 2021

Eleven years ago, award-winning author and Queen’s alum Steven Heighton almost lost the ability to speak. Now, he’s releasing an album. It might seem surprising that the author of 17 books would su…

‘You don’t want your baby to be ugly’: Sam Kaiser on success of new EP

February 5, 2021

Sam Kaiser, ArtSci ’22, released a single last November called “Good Things,” an apt title considering it skyrocketed to three times more streams on Spotify than his next most popular song. “Good T…

Submit your short story or poem to be featured on The Scramble, The Queen’s Journal podcast

February 1, 2021

Deadline: March 8 at midnight. Eligibility: Queen’s students from any year and faculty Length Requirements: For the short story, your work must be 600-2000 words. For the poem, your work can b…

‘These families lost everything’: Nazi art theft, an overlooked part of the Holocaust

January 29, 2021

“Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture,” wrote Beatnik poet Allen Ginsberg. Ginsberg was a vocal opponent of the Vietnam war, but his words recall an earlier tragedy from the…

Writer-in-Residence Kaie Kellough talks heritage, ancestry, and experimentation

January 29, 2021

Kaie Kellough is renowned for the richness of his writing and his ability to weave narratives together across time and place. After winning the 2020 Griffin Poetry Prize and the 2020 QWF Paragraphe…

Queen’s student launches artistic clay business

January 29, 2021

Cristina Foschia first discovered her love for artwork through her mother. “My mom paints and does a bunch of little artsy things,” Foschia said in an interview with The Journal. “I used to go to c…

Justin Nozuka talks dreamy, psilocybin-inspired single

January 29, 2021

“I see no reason / to hold back these feelings,” sings R&B artist Justin Nozuka in his latest track, “summer night o8,” written and performed under the psychedelic influence of psilocybin. The …