Posts by Sheila Sampath
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Announcements
Join the Shameless Youth Advisory Board!
It’s pretty simple. This is your magazine. We want your feedback, input and insight to drive its content. We want to include more youth voices, foster youth leadership, and work together to create the content that you want to read! Shameless is looking to fill 10–12 youth advisory board positions. Apply now! READ MORE
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Announcements
Environmental Justice Issue Out Now
Sheila’s editorial letter from the spring 2015 Environmental Justice issue. READ MORE
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Announcements
An open letter to the editors of rabble.ca
We are feminists, grassroots community groups and organizations that support intersectional feminism. We are concerned about your ongoing relationship with Meghan Murphy as one of your editors. Murphy has been publishing material that dehumanizes and disrespects women with different experiences and perspectives than hers for many years, in particular Black women, women in the sex industry and trans women. By allowing Murphy to continue as an editor at Rabble.ca you are giving a platform to her hate and we are writing to demand that you end your association with her as editor and columnist. READ MORE
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Announcements
Food issue out now!
The Shameless food issue is on the stands and coming to a table near you. Sheila shares her editor’s letter from the issue. READ MORE
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Blog Series
Ten Years of Talking Back: Sheila Sampath
In this final video in our Ten Years of Talking Back series, Editorial and Art Director Sheila Sampath talks about Shameless and why you should support us! READ MORE
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Behind the Scenes
Join Our Team!
Shameless is looking for a new reviews editor! This reviews editor could be you! READ MORE
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Behind the Scenes
Tech Issue Out Now!
Our new issue is on the stands! Check out Sheila’s letter from the editor. READ MORE
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In the Blog
Mid-Week Round-up: July 16
Check out what’s been making our headlines this week READ MORE
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In the Blog
Mid-week ROUND UP: JULY 9
Check out what’s been making our headlines this week READ MORE
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Behind the Scenes
Fashion Issue Out Now!
Even the lightest piece of clothing can carry the heaviest weight. A simple t-shirt is made up of the threads of nature, labour, struggle and resilience through colonialism, capitalism and globalization. It’s then re-imagined in our wardrobes to signal culture, style and politics, to reflect our personalities and to subvert or challenge stifling norms. Fashion does this in the most personal of ways — on our bodies — leaving us with a lot to unravel. READ MORE
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Behind the Scenes
Behind the Scenes: New Site
Welcome to the new shamelessmag.com! The site’s been months in the works and is the product of a wonderful collaboration between team Shameless, The Public and Amphibian. We couldn’t be happier! READ MORE
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In the Blog
Made with love: Shameless presents the love and relationships issue
I’ve been editing Shameless for three-and-a-half years now, and this letter, by far, has been the hardest for me to sit down and write. In working on this issue, I’ve come to realize that love and relationships aren’t things that we can talk about in abstract ways, because we experience them in such concrete and deeply personal ways. Relationships are loaded (everybody has strong opinions about how things should be), scary (they require honesty, trust, … READ MORE
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In the Blog
Unfinished Business Release New Video!
Friends of Shameless (and also, Canada’s youngest punk band?), Unfinished Business, have just released their first music video for their hit song, EPIC FAIL (a huge hit when they played our Labour Issue launch party last year!). Check it out below, and visit their Facebook page for upcoming shows! … READ MORE
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In the Blog
New issue out now!
When the Shameless editorial staff first proposed a sports issue I started having flashbacks to gym class: the thanks-for-trying Canada Fitness certificates, never being able to catch anything ever, the pain in my chest every time I tried to run. Coming in last, getting picked last, hiding my body in the change room. Letting everybody down. I dealt with the trauma back then by learning to fake cramps through pretty much any physical activity. Eventually … READ MORE
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In the Blog
The Shameless Justice issue: on its way!
I can’t remember the first time someone told me that “life isn’t fair,” but I know that I’ve heard it too many times to count. It’s hard to remember a month in my adult life where I haven’t had it said to me, and, in the process of sitting down to write this letter, I realize that it’s entirely likely a month hasn’t gone by when I haven’t said it to someone else. When I reflect … READ MORE
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In the Blog
Shameless is looking for a new arts editor!
Shameless magazine, a Canadian, independent, feminist voice for young women and trans youth, is looking for a volunteer arts editor. Are you devoted to grassroots publishing? Do you have a commitment to anti-oppression and inclusive feminist politics? Do you have some time to volunteer and a vision for Shameless? Then we need you. We are looking for a smart, sassy, shameless person to work as our new arts editor. This is an editorial position. Job description:x2028x2028 * Works … READ MORE
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In the Blog
Calling all trans, gender queer, two spirit, gender variant, and questioning youth!
Tired of how poorly we are represented in the media? Fed up with being measured against beauty standards that don’t celebrate you? Tired of comic books that fail to represent you? Tired of stories about trans people written by cis folks? Want to read stories you can relate to? ……..well…… Why not write those stories and make that media? Super Trans Powers is an upcoming workshop series offered by Supporting Our Youth and ArtReach Toronto at the Sherbourne Health Centre, … READ MORE
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In the Blog
Get schooled: new issue on its way!
The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created. The classroom with all its limitations remains a location of possibility. In that field of possibility we have the opportunity to labour for freedom, to demand of ourselves and our comrades, an openness of mind and heart that allows us to face reality even as we collectively imagine ways to move beyond boundaries, to transgress. This is education as the … READ MORE
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In the Blog
We’re looking for a new columns editor!
Shameless magazine, Canada’s independent, feminist voice for young women and trans youth, is hiring a columns editor. Are you devoted to grassroots publishing? Do you have a commitment to anti-oppression and inclusive feminist politics? Do you have some time to volunteer and a vision for Shameless? Then we need you. We are looking for a smart, sassy, shameless person to work as our new columns editor. Job description:x2028 * Works with the editorial team to plan and assign … READ MORE
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In the Blog
Take care: new issue on its way!
What do we talk about when we talk about health? Most of the ways that we talk about health have to do with our bodies. But the true meaning of health runs both much deeper and broader than that. Systems of health operate on every level; from the cellular to the personal, relational, familial, community and state level. And, what’s most interesting about these systems of health is how they function and rely on one another. … READ MORE
