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• Sue-Shane Tsomondo

  *Sue-Shane Tsomondo* is an artist, arts administrator, and occasional writer based in Mohkinstsis (also known as Calgary). Born and raised in Zimbabwe, she is interested in the stories that...

• THE QUEEN OF MY DREAMS: An Interview with Fawzia Mirza

  *KH:* The casting of Amrit Kaur from the TV series Sex Lives of College Girls as Azra, the protagonist, was perfect. How did she become involved?  *FW:* We worked...

• Finding Community in Unfolding Spaces: An Interview with Vicki Van Chau

  *TT:* For you, what are some challenges you've had over the years, especially as someone who's an Asian woman? What are some things you wish you had known...

• THE QUEEN OF MY DREAMS: An Interview with Fawzia Mirza

  *Kristen Hutchinson (KH):* What brought you to tell this story?  *Fawzia Mirza (FM):* Well, it has its roots in a short film that I made that world premiered in 2012...

• THE QUEEN OF MY DREAMS: An Interview with Fawzia Mirza

  *KH:* How does your film embrace lesboqueer joy, instead of the typical “bury your gays” trope that we so often see in film and TV?  *FM:* Well, I think for...

• THE QUEEN OF MY DREAMS: An Interview with Fawzia Mirza

  *KH:* It must have been hard to transform those images in Pakistan into the 1960s.  *FW:* Pakistan does not look the same. Karachi does not look the same. There’s just so many...

• The SMELL DA COFFEE TV Sitcom Pilot: How Black? How Funny?

  I found this rather weird. Wasn’t Canada supposed to be more racially inclusive than the United States? Why then did the Americans have more Black TV sitcoms on...

• The SMELL DA COFFEE TV Sitcom Pilot: How Black? How Funny?

  But I knew I could do far more for my people (I’m originally from Nigeria, West Africa) if I could weave the Afro-Canadian stories I heard around me...

• The SMELL DA COFFEE TV Sitcom Pilot: How Black? How Funny?

  The sitcom’s pilot isn’t only about fun and laughter. It explores a number of conflicts including the difficult world of gender-identity disputes in Afro-Canadian families. Obi and Adjoa are...

• The SMELL DA COFFEE TV Sitcom Pilot: How Black? How Funny?

  These markers critically help to provide a sense of inclusion to those of us whose cultures are featured in the pilot, as well as indicate that other Afro-Canadian traditions...