004 / Rave as Ceremony by Kyra Sutton
NIGHT RAT: Underground in MTL
I’m up front, clutching the speaker, sunglasses on, right-side of the DJ. I’m trying to climb through the wormhole and get pulled, swirled, blown through its gravity. Out the other side. I’m veering off the platform soles of my boots; I’m lapsing into the continuum. I’ve lost control of my hips: they’re careening out of my body, into orbit.... READ MORE>>>
Pa
Heidi Allen
A poem about horses, growing up in the Australian bush, and my pa...Usually I like to read my poems in my own voice, especially this one with its call that brings catharsis, but I think it’s still a good story. I hope you enjoy... READ MORE>>>
ENFANTS PERDUS — LAND OF THE THE LOST CHILDREN
Kyra Sutton
Calling "Enfants Perdus" a fashion show is deceptively simple. I'm not sure there exists yet a term to encompass the spectacle that shook the crowd at l'Union Francaise on May 22nd. And maybe that's exactly where the organizers of this event want to push us— into totally new territory.... READ MORE>>>
06-01-2025
lucybychoice
Words help you problem-solve and also express emotion. Healing is a metaphor. Carrying pain is a metaphor. Don't confuse literal and metaphorical language, you'll confuse yourself.... READ MORE>>>
Pan Arcadia Plays Montreal, May 2025
kayla gaisi
Everyone knows if you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere. So when I arrived at Brasserie Beaubien, an old-school dive bar tucked away in Montreal’s Little Italy, I expected to be greeted by a decent crowd. Back home, Pan Arcadia headlines sold out shows, playing to crowds of upwards of 500 who can sing their lyrics back to them.... READ MORE>>>
We Had the Era of Barbie and Brat, so is it time for Buzzcut Summer?
Stephanie Jean Pierre
They say hair holds memories, so it may be time to cut them off. Through the years, we have had our fair share of summer cultural shifts and microtrends. Barbie Summer gave us hyper-femininity and spectacle. Brat Summer (and year) gave us unapologetic, unhinged, and vulnerable 365-party-girl behaviour.... READ MORE>>>
Thinking of summer
Evelyn Logan
These days I’ve been absolutely drowning in thoughts about summer. When I have free time, I’m trying on summer outfits and thinking of what I want to do when it's finally warm out. I’ve been writing and thinking of the thaw so much that I’ve grown tired of the whole concept... READ MORE>>>
04-08-2025
lucybychoice
I steal the time to write this from my studies, which may not be the right decision down the line because if my exams do not go well my GPA will plummet more than it already has and I can kiss grad school goodbye, and I won’t be able to do the work I want, I won’t live the life I want, I’ll grow bitter and old and alone.... READ MORE>>>
03-27-2025
lucybychoice
Last week I ended things with my partner of over a year, which coincided with multiple lectures on attachment and relationships in my Social Psychology class. So I’ve been thinking, and the aforementioned bell hooks’ All About Love is making eyes at me from my bedside table, which is making me think some more.... READ MORE>>>
SOCIÉTÉ DE TRANSPORT DE MONTRÉAL
Jeanne Bransbourg, Adam Moffitt
A familiar jingle accompanies you on your commute. You put on your headphones, open your book, sit back in your seat. Music plays as you gaze out the window, watching the underground speed past you, you pull into the next station. Standing people, on their phones, watching ads, talking to their friends. It’s a daily occurrence, it’s repetitive, it’s your commute.... READ MORE>>>
003 / Meet Me at Grind’her (XOXO-Edition) by Kyra Sutton
NIGHT RAT: Underground in MTL
It is not yet 11PM when you arrive at the venue on Saint Laurent, wine drunk, stumbling out of the Uber. The moon hangs low in the sky, full and white. You adjust the nipple charms on your tank top. You help your friend tighten her leather harness.... READ MORE>>>
The thaw. thoughts on the time between seasons and change
Evelyn Logan
Just when you think that you cannot stand another snow filled sidewalk or send another text with cold and slow fingers, the winter breaks and the thaw begins. Unfortunately at this time I’m writing to you from the other side of the icy veil; winter in Montreal this year has been uniquely frigid... READ MORE>>>
02-27-2025
lucybychoice
I’m sure everyone reading this knows Fade Into You by Mazzy Star. I’m starting the first few words of this to it. It’s entry no. 2, and I still don’t know how to write a blog post... READ MORE>>>
Beginning-of-the-year blues
Evelyn Logan
For me, January always marks the glorious beginning of the new year and the time to complete all my new year rituals (new diary, ins and outs list, resolutions, the whole nine) but also the beginning of a slight, unshakable funk. I think many people call this state “January blues” ... READ MORE>>>
02-05-2025
lucybychoice
I should start by providing a warning: I have nothing to say. I’m not sure what a blog entails in terms of writing or in terms of expectations. My twitter bio reads, “storyteller. collection of clouds.” So I suggest the following: I tell stories. We cloudgaze. Tell me what shapes you see... READ MORE>>>
002 / Echoes from the Outskirtz by Kyra Sutton
NIGHT RAT: Underground in MTL
The year is 2021. It’s a Friday, and like many Fridays around this time, you have no plans but to gaze far out of your bedroom window, dissociating from time’s brutal continuity, until the street tapers off into oblivion. Your friend calls you— there’s a rave happening just outside the city and they’re all going... READ MORE>>>
001 / Aboveground by Kyra Sutton
NIGHT RAT: Underground in MTL
This summer, I fell into parties. Like how you might fall into an uncapped sewer drain— unexpectedly, all at once, unsure of what has happened to you. I attended huge parties, intimate ones; raves, concerts, club nights, queer nights, free parties in the middle of the woods. In the morning, I emerged from a gap in the trees like a vampire, pale, crystallizing in the daylight... READ MORE>>>