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Who is Subsidizing Whom? Rethinking the “Domestic”/”International” Divide
A few days ago, The Talon UBC released information about UBC’s bold move to increase international undergraduate tuition by 10% and residence fees by 20%. The university’s proposals have been met with...
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Trigger warning: this article contains an intensely personal account of rape and sexual assault that occurred on the UBC campus. The article also discusses depression, self-harm and anxiety. In...
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“You’ll find a boyfriend once you lose some weight”
Trigger warning for disordered eating, fatphobia, body shaming, weight loss and discussion of diets. If you are struggling with an eating disorder, the National Eating Disorder Information Centre has...
View ArticlePutting My Own Oxygen Mask on First: Reflections on Suicide, Support, and...
Content Warning: This piece is a personal account of depression, anxiety, and suicide in the context of contemporary student life. If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide please call...
View Articlewhite feminist 404
can trauma be owned can it be speculated on / paid for in plastic rainbows & rubber kisses? you, white feminist, are a bracelet locking me within these washed, haunted halls (so clean): the clock,...
View ArticleIf There’s a Reason: A Letter from a Survivor of the Campus Sexual Misconduct...
Content note: this letter discusses sexual assault I had a hard time deciding who this letter should be addressed to. There’s a lot of people I want to address, you see. The first, of course, is the...
View Articlethere’s the rub;
TW: rape, secondary victimization/victim-blaming, PTSD, dissociation do you remember when the nightmares of your childhood were the only notion you had of the existence of evil where you’d stare...
View ArticleSilence, fear and cover-ups: The three pillars of UBC
Something is rotten in the state of UBC. We’ve all read the stories about how the university has failed sexual assault survivors, problems with the Board of Governors, Steven Galloway’s firing, and...
View ArticleHow Your Partying Alienates Your Friends Who Live With Disabilities or...
I’m the type of person who gets great joy from spending time with friends, it’s a way to relax and decompress particularly after a long week. In theory, I like the idea of partying, and going out...
View ArticleHow 4chan Radicalizes White Men Online
Content warning: racism, misogyny, animal cruelty 4chan is an imageboard where users post anonymously. It’s a simple premise, but within that ephemerality they’ve still made their mark on the web....
View ArticleA Palestinian’s response to Koby Michaels’ Op-ed
Dear Koby Michaels, I’m writing this open letter to inform you and those who have read your article that your intentions behind writing it was not that of genuine fear, but of an ideological impetus to...
View ArticleRubbed Raw: Depression and Suicide, from the Eyes of a Lover
Trigger warning: Suicide/self-harm/depression One: The Meeting It’s never like it is in the movies, is it. Except it was, wasn’t it? Just like a high-school rom-com gone wrong, everything went right,...
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UBC Invites ISIS-linked Propagandists to Campus
The UBC School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and Department of Sociology are hosting an event on Thursday, April 11 at 5pm during which leading units from the White Helmets terrorist...
View ArticleEgypt: 9 Years After the Revolution
Aaesh, Horeya, Aadal Egtamaaya: these were the three simple demands that Egyptians had when they took matters into their own hands during the Egyptian Revolution nine years ago. They asked for life,...
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