February 1, 2021

Issue 02: Space(s)

Features

Steal Myself Back

DIJAH

An Ode to Closure

Rumaisa Bhatti Conan Stark Shukri Abdi Areeba Shaikh

Policing the Pandemic

with KW Article Club

Niara van Gaalen Seemab Zahra Yasmeen Nematt Alla Tomi A. Ryan Antooa

Tiles

Dewe'igan Bearfoot Olivia Maine

Sacred Spaces

Windows

Jordan Berhe

Editorial

Editors' Note

Poetry

Enigma

Seemab Zahra

Quezon City, October 1, 1975

Jared Cubilla

This House

Yasmeen Nematt Alla

Two Poems

Nitica Sakharwade

Skin

Yvonne Tagoe

Untitled

Saira Obaid

It was not your fault

L.S.

Short Stories

Vermillion

Zehra Nawab

Clementine

Ariya Mamun

Cerasee

Omi Ra

True Blue

Nicole Smith

Essays

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Aashay Dalvi

The Screen is a Portal

Mélika Hashemi

A Plate Away

Tyra Forde

I promise we did not gather

Yasmeen Nematt Alla

Sidewalk Courage

Niara van Gaalen

The Tower

Connor Chin-Quee

Skin Color Pencil Crayon

Marina Wada

Credits

Published by Textile, with support from City of Kitchener, Kitchener-Waterloo Community Foundation with fiscal sponsorship from The New Quarterly, Waterloo Region Arts Fund, Laurier Students’ Public Interest Group,
Ontario Arts Council, Kitchener, Ontario, in 2021

Policing the Pandemic Micro-Publication In collaboration with Article Club KW.

ISSN: 2562-8380

Project Directors:  Fitsum Areguy, Andy Myles

Lead Poetry Editor: Ashley Hynd

Editors: Bashar Lulu Jabbour, Shalaka Jadhav, Taylor Small, Teneile Warren

Proofreader: Atlas Bearing

Design: Tara Campbell

Printing: Pandora Print Shop

Cover: Zehra Nawab

Contributors: Aashay Dalvi, Areeba Shaikh, Ariya Mamum, Bee Lee, Conan Stark, Connor Chin-Quee, Dewe’igan Bearfoot, Jared Cubilla, Jordan Berhe, Marina Wada, Mélika Hashemi, Niara van Gaalen, Nicole Leona Smith, Nitica Sakharwade, Olivia Maine, Omi Ra, Rumaisa Bhatti, Ryan Antooa, Saira Obaid, Seemab Zahra, Shawn Johnston, Shukri Abdi, Tomi A., Tyra Forde, Yasmeen Nematt Alla, Yvonne Tagoe