Subha Chelvam was the Visual Editor of the Summer 2012 issue of the Ryerson Review of Journalism. Keeping up with the #Kony2012 controversy
It’s taken a few days, but Joseph Kony’s now-infamous last name has finally disappeared from my list of trending Twitter topics. And considering how viral Invisible Children‘s Kony 2012 film and the ensuing controversy were, that’s quite a feat. Like many others, until only a few days ago, I was completely unaware of Kony, head of Ugandan guerrilla […]
Ukrainian interrogations through a Canadian lens
A woman sits wearing a parka in an empty room. She watches something—concerned, struck, peering through the gaps between strands of her wet, exhausted curls. Her long eyes are glossy and her lips are parted with a quiver. A young man, hands clasped with every ounce of energy, hope, and desperation, sits; his eyes are […]
A Toast to Homemakers
Homemakers magazine folds after 45 years of food, fashion, and feisty women.
On the evening of November 16, 2011, right around 6:30 p.m., a group of 10 women—editors, former co-workers, and friends—gathered at Sally Armstrong’s condo at Yonge and St. Clair streets in Toronto, in honour of what was once seen as just a “little book of recipes”; one that brought them all together once and has […]
