Second-year UBC student Allegra Kastner went viral once. For her, that was more than enough.
In the moments before I was awarded my black belt in aikido, I realized that, despite more than a decade of experience in the martial art, I was about to become a beginner all over again.
It has been nearly one year since we have exPEArienced the closest thing to world (or at least campus) PEAce that has ever transPEAred.
Is there anything more quintessentially suburban/middle class/North American in December than your parents powering down your Wii and telling you to “log off that game already,” only to turn on those relaxing, soothing, mind-numbing flames for hours on end?
For me, feminism has always been a conscious commitment. But a small revelation, brought into the limelight by a clue in a crossword, illuminated an unconscious thought process that lurked beneath the surface.
I love movies. I enjoy nothing more than escaping into someone else’s story for a couple hours, leaving it feeling a little bit stronger, smarter, better somehow. With the Academy Awards coming up on March 15, I decided, for the first time ever, to watch all 10 of the Best Picture nominees and review them.
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