For Vol. 4 of AFTERNOON, we wanted to explore our relationship to place and ourselves in the age of lockdowns. In his essay, “Brown Kids Belong in the Outdoors,” Rajesh Sankat examines the connection people of colour have with the outdoors in Canada. Chef Wendy Zeng shares a recipe for pork slivers that meditates on her family’s relationship to food in communist China, and provokes a reflection on our own patterns of consumption during the pandemic. In Argentina, Flavio Christensen and Tove Eklöf share their journey of building their eco-home together with Roohi Sahajpal. Omar bin Musa, Australian-Malyasian rapper, poet, and artist, talks to Miranda Newman about his latest artistic muse—woodcuts—and how they’re keeping him connected to his homeland, while cover artist Umber Majeed explores the Pakistani state through a feminist lens. Alex Sheriff takes us back to a time when we could make spontaneous social connections through his fiction. These pages also hold examinations of the artistic practice and how we collaborated during lockdown from Harmony Eshkawkogan, Daniel Llaría, and Jorge Mujica, and an illustrated puzzle to enjoy from Weston Frazor.

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