“As a queer Muslim, we’re often faced with this idea of impossibility—like it’s impossible to be queer and Muslim.”

Olivia Rodrigo’s debut album Sour dropped four months after the release of her hit single, “Drivers License,” and it’s exactly the angsty, angry, and vulnerable experience we didn’t sign up for but undoubtedly needed.

The Undergraduate Review (UR), a Queen’s arts and literature-focused magazine, released their 33rd annual issue on Jun. 4th. 

A show like Kim’s Convenience has a deep impact by virtue of its existence. Regardless of how you may feel about the show’s writing or character development, it gave hope and optimism to the future of TV.

The most incredible aspect of living in residence is the opportunity to influence, and be influenced by, people you likely never would’ve met otherwise.

When it comes to spring fashion, designers are ditching neutrals for pastels and diving headfirst into the world of patterns.

A mere six minutes after Billie Eilish posted her cover of British Vogue to Instagram, the image surpassed one million likes.

J. Cole’s new album, The Off-Season, is a proclamation of the rapper’s immense success and his desire to continue competing in the rap game.

JukeBox County, the stage name of Kingston’s own Rich Tyo, sat down with The Journal ahead of the release of his upcoming debut 10-track album, Inner Space Outer Space.

Sadiqa de Meijer is a talented writer of poetry, short stories, and essays. 

Steven Heighton, Queen’s MA ’86 and accomplished author, had no interest in performing his own songs until the owner of Wolfe Island Records heard him play. 

Over the last year, shutdowns implemented in response to COVID-19 have rocked Ontario businesses. 

The Golden Globes has always been a glamorous, privileged, and whitewashed night in the awards season.  

The first issue of Quilt launched on May 7th. 

This year, the Journal house was mostly empty. 190 University Ave., for me, had always been a hub of activity: layout room laughter, couch room banter, a place to hang out in between classes, last-minute writing, and just plain chaos. Losing all of that would be reason enough to become dispirited, but you, our staff, didn’t. 

For almost two decades, elementary and secondary school students in Ontario were learning from a sexual-education curriculum that hadn’t been updated since 1998.

On July 20, Omar El Akkad’s second novel What Strange Paradise will debut. But El Akkad’s creative writing career began on a different day: September 11, 2001, in Professor Carolyn Smart’s creative writing class.

In the midst of conversations about sexism, violence against women, and toxic masculinity, the phrase ‘not all men’ has become a popular response to defend male perspectives. This narrative is extremely problematic and minimizes the opportunity for further conversations surrounding female oppression. Yes, not all men are physically or sexually violent toward women, but too many are.

The Grand Theatre, a performing arts hub of downtown Kingston, has been empty since the first lockdown of March 2020. Now, four artists will be given the chance to grace the stage.

Clanny Mugabe, Art Sci ’23, is a second-year student who explores themes of decolonization, mythology, and speculative fiction in her artwork. Like many artists, Mugabe has struggled to continue creating art as quarantine and lockdowns continue in Canada.