Features • February 12, 2020
The things they did not tell her
The moment she woke up to loud gospel music blaring from the kitchen, she immediately groaned.
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Features • February 12, 2020
In favour of men’s deodorant
Deodorant is a cheap way to ensure you smell fresh so people are willing to sit next to you on the bus.
Features • February 12, 2020
Our paradoxical society
Our minds are trained to believe that certain activities or feelings are attributed to men or women
Features • February 12, 2020
My love-hate relationship with skinny jeans and other people with vaginas
If women could be all those things, why didn’t I want to be like them?
Features • February 12, 2020
And I didn’t even need to learn long division, anyway
One morning when I was in Grade Five I woke up with a giant pimple on my left cheek.
Features • February 12, 2020
Wouldn’t it be loverly: learning to be beautiful
Mystique and Villanelle each fight against a world that tries to limit their capabilities and desires. They inspired me to be brave by being myself.
Features • February 12, 2020
Black on campus: Triple consciousness
Here are three boxes each of which i do not fully belong/ but I do not think of this as unfortunate.
Features • February 11, 2020
You mean Twitter can actually teach people things?
I didn’t catcall women, brag about sexual conquests or demean people with names. So how could I be affected by toxic masculinity?
Features • February 11, 2020
Friendship and mentorship: How women occupy and fight for leadership roles at UBC
"I think mentorship means so much more between women when it’s covered with solidarity of knowing that it’s not just about those big issues that are often heavy and difficult, but it’s also about coming into these places …
Features • February 11, 2020
Strong independent young woman seeking a look
University should be a safe space to experiment with expressing your identity through your look.
Features • February 11, 2020
How I benefited from China’s one-child policy
Mulan, who went to war in place of her father, was never a warrior by nature. She was just being punished by a sin that she had never committed.
Features • February 11, 2020
Strings attached: A study on the effect gender has on writing conventions… if there is any
This whole issue being on the topic of gender and performance made me curious about peoples’ writing. Do we ‘perform’ our genders every time we sit down at the keyboard? In other words, could there be any signs …
Features • February 11, 2020
Seeing yourself and being seen
Dysphoria with my body and how I was perceived had come to a head and simply put, pretending to be a woman was no longer a viable option.
Features • February 11, 2020
I love it when we play 1950
We complement each other well. Both of us live without and between gender, weaving our identities like tangled embroidery thread in a colourful drawer.
Features • February 11, 2020
Something I missed in a split between two
Our first date was one of endurance. We walked for hours downtown and my shoulder grew tired from the regret of putting so much stuff in my bag in an earlier fit of nerves.
Features • February 4, 2020
Our Campus: From law school to Lind Initiative, Sara Ghebremusse advocates ‘presence matters’
Ghebremusse applied to a year-long visiting professorship at the Allard School of Law, got an interview and was hired. After that temporary position ended, she landed a tenure-track professorship and became the only Black woman faculty member at …
Features • February 4, 2020
Black on campus: In colour
The world still has a long way to go before it is a safe place for so many minorities, not just the one you are.
Features • February 4, 2020
Black on campus: To be a Black male on campus
To be a Black male on campus means to experience...
Features • February 4, 2020
Black on campus: A quintessential university experience
We pondered about what it was about Blackness that so many people felt ownership over it. I joked about how so many felt they possess an experience that they would never have.