Future Diasporas

Future Diasporas celebrates the stories of racialized diasporic artists as they reconcile with their past, negotiate the present amid Tkaronto/Toronto’s unaffordable urban landscape, and make space for just and flourishing futures.

In this issue: Conversations and artwork by eight racialized diasporic artists. Stories about diasporic identities, ancestral histories, commemorative art practices, migratory patterns, and displacement. The artists also share stories about their experiences in Toronto—from facing institutional racism and tokenism, to precarious gigs, and displacement from community cultural spaces such as 888 Dupont, 187 Augusta, and Hearth. These stories disentangle the shifting challenges, needs, desires and future possibilities of cultural spaces in this unaffordable landscape

Author-Creator: Alycia Shanika
Contributing Artists: Bianca Weeko Martin, Cathleen Calica, Hima Batavia, Jana Ghalayini, Miru Yogarajah, Philip Leonard Ocampo, Tamara “Solem” Al-Issa, & Waard Ward

Toronto, Ontario, 7.5" x 9.65", 162 pages