This fall, we asked contributors: What does home mean to you?
As we navigate our educations on Treaty 6 Territory and the Homeland of the Métis, questions of home become important as we learn to situate ourselves and understand the positionalities we occupy.
In the pages ahead, members of our university campus—undergraduate students, graduate students, staff and alumni—explore these positionalities. The fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and visual art in this issue certainly demonstrate the diversity of these positions.
After receiving a record-breaking number of submissions this fall, we decided to publish the first-ever double issue of in medias res. Unable to narrow down the incredible quantity and quality of work we received, our readers get to enjoy two editions of “Home” this fall — I urge you to read both issues for a holistic experience of home.
Read: The “Home” Issue 1.1
In issue 1.1 of “Home,” our contributors engage the idea of home as family, lovers, houses, travel, and connections to the land both here and far away. The intimacy constructed in these pages shows home as a comfort, or, as one piece astutely puts: “Home is where the heart is.” These interpretations remind us of the importance of our homes, asking us to hold dear to our hearts our own.
Read: The “Home” Issue 1.2
In issue 1.2, contributors engage with the woes of constructing a home. Themes of colonialism, longing, diaspora, racism, struggle and a lack of roots haunt these pages, juxtaposing the comforting intimacy of 1.1. These interpretations of home remind us of the relationship between home and resilience, reminding us that these contributors are “still here” despite the adversities they have faced.