Welcome to the Zine! A Place where the Deprived team explores their own identities and shares their experiences with you! How can we ask for you to be vulnerable by speaking against the silence if we didn’t do it for ourselves? So here we are, shedding our tough skins until we become figuratively naked. Clear-cut: by exposing our own experiences, we hope that you acquire the courage to join the social dialogue!

Shayla, Anthology: Forever and Always

Loose yourself in the never-ending spiral of intimate and raw, creative writing by yours truly.

“I took to song writing as early as the 5th grade. Then lost myself in writing a plethora of un-finished novels in middle school. In high school, I was introduced to poetry. Now I dabble in creative writing, blog entries and academia publications!”

Since I’m always writing, there’s always a moment to share with y’all lovelies.
Don’t feel too deprived cause mama be giving it to you forever and always!

Shayla, Volume 5: April 2021

Poems based on my experience of social constructs and reclaiming the female identity – as read at the Thunder Bay Pride Literary Event, 2018.

Shayla, Volume 4: December 2020

Well, You Taught Me, Master.

Reflections of intimacy portrayed by the male gaze of Old Masters,
and the prevailing themes in the Western, modern world.

Shayla, Volume 3: January 2020

Intimate Relationships, and the Phases of My Dating Life.

Letters of a first heartbreak.
Poems for my muses.
Curiosities & Consent.

Shayla, Volume 2: Spring 2019

Exploring Gender Identity, Gender Performance and Social Impacts.
Featuring personal social research essays, and fine artworks based on feminine sexual experience.

Shayla, Volume 1: May 2018

Exploring Body Image as a Trigger of Self and Sexual Worth.