(Museum of Health Care at Kingston In-Person Doors Open Kingston) I recall teaching Children’s Literature at Queen’s University when a student cross-referenced a scene from Mamoru Oshii’s Angel’s Egg with Victorian-era morphine bottles. Students encountered the morphine bottle during a live, in-class presentation led by the Museum of Healthcare in Kingston, Ontario. As we…
Author: Sabrina Masud
Sabrina Masud has a PhD in English, specializing in Environmental Humanities and Ecocriticism, Queen’s University, Canada. She recently completed her MA in African American Studies at Temple University as a Fulbright Scholar. Prior to her time at Temple, she also earned an MA in Applied Linguistics & ELT, in addition to holding a BA (Honors) in English from the University of Dhaka.
Her scholarly contributions have been featured in the Journal of Black Studies. Sabrina's research focus on minority rights, equity, and diversity has led her to take on various roles, including International Commissioner with the Society of Graduate and Professional Students (SGPS), Inclusivity Fellow with the School of Graduate Studies and Post Doctoral Affairs (SGSPA), and a position on the Social Justice Committee with Public Service Alliance Canada (PSAC) at Queen’s University. Complementing her academic pursuits, Sabrina's passion for creative writing led her to serve as Co-Editor-In-Chief for The Lamp, an international graduate literary journal affiliated with Queen’s Department of English.
Pandemic Death Discourse: A Book Review
Pandemic Death Discourse critically engages the notion of “death as the greatest equalizer,” revealing how mortality, far from being neutral, exposes the deeply social, gendered, racial, geopolitical, and economic contours of life and death during the initial onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic. At the heart of this collection lies a call to recognize and communicate…
Birdshot: Psychic Numbing over Body in Number
In July 2024, tertiary-level students in Bangladesh protested a quota system that favored descendants of freedom fighters, demanding equal access to government jobs. The police, along with a government-backed student wing, responded with violence, killing six protesters early in the movement, according to the CBC . This incident sparked further protests and fatalities, eventually leading…
Chiasm: How Seeing and Hearing Speaks of a Planet in Crisis
Source: (Mortillaro) During the worldwide COVID-19 shutdown in 2020, the media disseminated satellite images of disappearing clouds of pollution over countries like China and Italy. The accompanying copy drew on words like “surreal,” “striking” (Mortillaro), as well as “unprecedented” (Hickey). The headlines sensationalized the images. Online media posts implied a connection between the lack of…
Toxic Life in Death and Chirality in “Animal’s People”
The haunting image captured of a child in 1984 by Rohu Rai titled “Burial of Unknown Child” in the rubble of the Bhopal industrial disaster mirrors Animal, the protagonist of Indra Sinha’s novel Animal’s People, a fictionalized account of the incident. Although Sinha doesn’t directly reference this haunting image, the resemblance is uncanny. The image…