Kiss and Cry
For Anthony Paradis, it all started at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Games. As the titular theme of Schindler’s List rang out across the ice, Yulia Lipnitskaya began her free skate program. She wore a bright red costume, an homage to a young character from the Steven Spielberg film. The Russian prodigy was only fifteen at the time, and with her rosy cheeks and wide eyes, looked not much older than the girl in the red coat to which she was paying homage.
OnlyFeminism
Aliss Bonython was going on vacation and needed to find a last-minute swimsuit. When she walked into a store at the mall, a white triangle string bikini caught her eye. Cute, she thought. But when she stood in front of the change-room mirror, she grimaced—the bikini could not contain her ample bosom and curvaceous hips.
The Express Way
In the early hours of October 12, 2022, Vincent Puhakka and a dozen other TTCRiders members cycled, walked, and took the bus to the downtown Toronto section of Dufferin Street armed with mop buckets, rollers, and several jugs of bright-red Crayola children’s paint. The members of TTCRiders had transformed into bandits, thieves in the night, camouflaged in high-vis vests and steel-toed boots.