I have always been attracted to — and easily distracted by — pretty people.
Calling girls chiriya in Punjabi and many other South Asian languages is representative of the belief that we raise our girls with care, love and admiration, but ultimately their fate is decided for them.
UBC Bhangra Club (UBCBC), founded in 1992, has represented UBC’s Punjabi community and encouraged philanthropy, culture and camaraderie for the past three decades.
For me, and so many others, sex scenes in movies acted as our sex education.
Santa Claus’ origin story has never been told quite as twisted as in Disney’s The Santa Clause.
And looking back to the young girl who secretly shaved her legs, I see a girl who just didn’t know how to exist in a body that seemingly developed overnight. But most importantly I see a girl who thinks she is anything but beautiful. I see a girl who was wrong.
UBC MFA alumnus Spenser Smith invites readers to reflect on British Columbia's toxic drug supply crisis in his new poetry book A Brief Relief from Hunger.
I don't have to tell you that we're in the heat of finals season and you, me and everyone we know are in the anxiety trenches.
“Thank you for teaching me I can write through anything,” read the message in the guestbook at poet Rupi Kaur's November 25 reading in at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Vancouver.
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