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“Oh, you’ll have fun, Mancunians just want to drink and fuck.” My friend’s remark flickers in my memory as I lay trashed on the 200-year-old library floor in a velvet romper at 6 AM, The Fall blaring in the background. Haunted libraries, gay discos, Gothic churches, post-punk pubs, underground lavatories, abandoned warehouses, Victorian swimming pools,…
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For an underprivileged, overanxious teenager growing up in the car-theft capital of North America—aka Surrey—music was the sweetest escape. While getting ready for school, I blasted David Bowie, the Libertines, and the Smiths, stabbing pins through my clothes and squeezing into leather in juvenile imitation of the male rock stars I admired. I felt a…
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Romanian-born, Vancouver-bred Stefana Fratila is only 23 years old and probably more accomplished than you. She is a folk-pop musician turned electronic producer, a political-science student working toward her master’s degree, and a feminist artist with a mind as uniquely bright as her red lipstick and matching ladybug earrings. And yet Fratila sees herself as…
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