Ahead of the first BWTT conference in Toronto, Regina Gwynn talks about what kinds of companies are being founded (and funded) right now, where she sees tech going—and why networking and mentorship are necessary for racialized founders.
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Friday Things’ must-watch picks for Apple TV, CBC Gem, Crave, Disney Plus, Hayu, Netflix Canada and Prime Video Canada in September 2024, including Agatha All Along, Wolfs, The Penguin, His Three Daughters and A Very Royal Scandal.
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Over the past few weeks, one strain of online discourse has positioned Black liberation and Palestinian liberation as competing goals. Here's why that makes no sense.
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Why did this trend gained traction among Gen Z and millennial women, and what does it say about how they present themselves in today’s society?
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Kamala Harris’ super vocal fanbase celebrated her sassy clapback against protesters calling for action on Israel’s genocide in Palestine and it was really quite weird.
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Friday Things’ must-watch picks for Apple TV, CBC Gem, Crave, Disney Plus, Hayu, Netflix Canada and Prime Video Canada in August 2024, including season 4 of both Emily in Paris and Only Murders in the Building, as well as Night Raiders and RuPauls’s Drag Race Global All Stars.
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Sadiya Ansari's grandmother, Tahira, abandoned her seven children for almost two decades, then found her way back. Here, Ansari and I chat about why she wanted to tell this story, what it’s like to shine a light on something your family doesn’t talk about and how this book changed her relationship with someone she loved and admired, but didn’t really know.
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We might be paying a little *too* much attention to the memeification of Kamala Harris, tbh
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But it is a newsletter about what it means to live in the west at this moment, and the fundamental tension between people who want to return to ‘normal,’ and people who know that’s an idea that doesn’t exist anymore.
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Growclass founder Sarah Stockdale is aiming to give equity-deserving groups "the experience of having a rich uncle Bob"
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Out: Alice Munro art monster discourse. In: Literally any of these alternate conversations.
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The record-breaking, catastrophic hurricane decimated several Caribbean islands this week, and while Caribbean people have been calling attention to it all over my Twitter and TikTok feeds (thank you, algorithms), you know who I haven’t seen say a peep? All those influencers and travel writers that depend on the region for content.
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The creator of 'Back to One,' an indie series about a Guyanese-Canadian twentysomething who's navigating work, romance and her immigrant family, on balancing your own ambition with your family’s dreams for you, telling multi-dimensional stories and why sometimes, you just have to make the things you need to see
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Friday Things’ must-watch picks for Apple TV, CBC Gem, Crave, Disney Plus, Hayu, Netflix Canada and Prime Video Canada in July 2024, including Crave’s Faye featuring Faye Dunaway, CBC Gem’s Canadian slasher Slash/Back and Prime Video’s original series Space Cadet.
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Don’t ask how the singer’s arrest for driving while intoxicating will affect his career—instead, think about what the discourse says about the state of his career right now.
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Soprano Neema Bickersteth performs in the COC's ‘Aportia Chryptych: A Black Opera for Portia White’—and shares why it's so important for Black audiences to see their stories on stage
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'The Idea of You,' 'A Family Affair'—a new wave of romcoms is positioning relationships between older women and younger men as harmless fantasy fodder. And that’s fun, says culture writer Sadaf Ahsan. But let’s not forget how dicey these dynamics can get IRL.
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Over the past few months, viral tweets about childfree spaces have taken over my timeline on three separate occassions, and since three things make a trend, I guess it’s time to talk about the internet’s bizarre animosity toward children.
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Emily Jung, the director of communications at The Theatre Centre, chats with Ruth Young about what’s happening in Toronto's independent art scene right now, and why it deserves our attention
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Friday Things’ must-watch picks for Apple TV, CBC Gem, Crave, Disney Plus, Hayu, Netflix Canada and Prime Video Canada in June 2024, including The Bear, House of the Dragon and Bridgerton.
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