Every year, Ubyssey contributors pool their money together and set off to Pender Island for a weekend full of laughs, friends and making memories.
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After a decade of working in music away from campus, Jasper Sloan Yip made his way back to UBC working at CiTR 101.9 FM, the community radio station, and its arts magazine, Discorder.
Carrying a comically large backpack, I stepped out of the plane and sped through the terminal listening to Erin Mendenhall, the mayor of Salt Lake City, welcome me to her city.
London is freeing. You could be whoever you want and still be perfectly synchronized to London’s Melody.
It wouldn’t be fair to call animal behaviour researcher Dr. Alexandra ‘Sasha’ Protopopova dog-obsessed. She also enjoys hiking. With a dog.
Beyond Tomorrow Scholar Ivan Correa McIntosh said basketball "was a way to keep me out of trouble” growing up.
Dr. Agnes d’Entremont is a professor for APSC 366, an engineering course for non-engineers.
Recovering lawyer Dr. Ramón “Arturo” Victoriano has been teaching at the university level for 30 years.
Across Vancouver, musicians are honing their craft and finding their sound. Many of these musicians are from UBC.
Medusa struggles to let someone hold her femininity in their hands. She fears opening herself up, showing the most sacred part of herself to a room that sees her snakes as a poor excuse for what a woman is supposed to have.
Henry van Dyck developed his first video game in grade 10. He would later get an opportunity any aspiring gaming developer could only dream of — a job at Ubisoft.
When I was younger, I never understood why the spots on my face were called beauty marks when they didn’t make me feel more beautiful, but quite the opposite in fact.
Though my mom would hold my eyebrow skin taught, when I looked in the mirror, I’d smile at myself. Not because I thought I looked better — or fundamentally different, even — but because I felt better. I felt like an adult. I felt like a woman. And I felt brown.
i used to wish i was a boy / because i thought / i would get / the benefit of the doubt / from a culture that loved / what i wasn’t.
From a queer perspective, the idea of embodying something genderless is incredibly empowering. But I understand not everybody wants to cosplay as a plant.