Me, My Selfies, and II came across a TikTok recently that articulated something about my face I’d been struggling with. It was one of those videos where the speaker sits in the front seat of her car as if she’s been so overcome by an epiphany that she had to pull over… Feb 29 24February 29, 2024Article at The Walrus
Angela Failler is helping Canadians discover the gaps in our collective memoryAngela Failler is an expert in the stories we don’t tell. For well over a decade the Canada Research Chair in culture and public memory and director of the centre for research in cultural studies (CRiCS) at the University of Winnipeg has focused her… Jul 03 24July 03, 2024Article at University Affairs
Popular sculpture at U of Regina gets renovated - University AffairsSimply called Frog, the statue was originally built in 1971 by a professor and a group of his students. Oct 23 23October 23, 2023Article at University Affairs
Telling Indigenous stories through medicines of the landA skin care brand is taking centre stage at Kwantlen Polytechnic University’s Langley campus library as part of the third installation of KPU’s χʷəχʷéy̓əm Indigenous collections. The new medicines of the land collection, launched in January,… May 02 23May 02, 2023Article at University Affairs
Searching for sustainable solutions to food insecurity on campusDuring her final year of graduate studies at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Olga Belokon faced a terrible choice: pay tuition or eat. An international student from Russia, she’d been surprised by the high cost of living in Vancouver when… Mar 01 23March 01, 2023Article at University Affairs
SFU gets a lift from a planned public transit gondolaNews This unique mode of transportation will have capacity for about 3,000 passengers per hour in each direction. One commentTwitterFacebookLinkedIn Just about everyone at Simon Fraser University seems excited to talk about the transit gondola that… Jan 19 23January 19, 2023Article at University Affairs
I’m Haunted by the Mansions of My YouthThe first time I remember seeing a mansion, I was headed to the Assiniboine Park Zoo in Winnipeg with a friend assigned to me by a charity that paired adults with poor kids whose parents needed a break. I turned to this nice middle-class woman, who… Oct 31 22October 31, 2022Article at The Walrus
Homer StreetThe historic neighbourhood of Yaletown, with its rows of warehouses converted into swanky boutiques and high-end restaurants, might be synonymous with luxury in the minds of Vancouverites, but there’s a surprising amount of variety within a short… Sep 15 22September 15, 2022Article at Block Magazine
The Long ViewVancouver has changed a lot over the past decade. Nowhere is this more visible than in the former warehousing district that is now Olympic Village, where a new tower seems to appear every day. Built in 2018, Allied’s 2233 Columbia Street may be part… Sep 15 22September 15, 2022Article at Block Magazine
U of Manitoba professor is helping kids explore their gender identityNews Researcher Fenton Litwiller is developing youth recreation programming to support queer kids in acquiring skills that affirm their complex gender identities. Post a commentTwitterFacebookLinkedIn Winnipeg-based researcher Fenton Litwiller is… Sep 02 22September 02, 2022Article at University Affairs
New VIU program expands the therapeutic toolkitNews The program hopes to create an environment that is safe and effective for the use of psychedelics. Post a comment In these times of widespread anxiety and depression, the traditional therapeutic toolbox can sometimes seem frustratingly limited.… Apr 25 22April 25, 2022Article at University Affairs
UBC earthquake lab shakes, rattles and rollsNews The Earthquake Engineering Research Facility is studying the dangers of seismic instability. Post a comment In a time when disasters seem to be a daily occurrence, it can be hard to look beyond the challenges at hand. But in places that are… Jan 18 22January 18, 2022Article at University Affairs
Me and Bridget Jones (20 Years Later)Erika Thorkelson's "Me and Bridget Jones (20 Years Later)" is one of the essays in Midlife, which is a giveaway right now! Written and published during COVID quarantine, Midlife features the collected works of former members of the Gateway, the… Jun 14 21June 14, 2021Article at 49th Shelf
Fat Shaming Shouldn’t Be Part of Our “New Normal”In the days following the shutdown, muscular bodies filled my neighbourhood park. People crab-walked across the cricket pitch, lifted enormous kettlebell weights in the grass, and turned the cages of the small baseball diamonds into chin-up bars.… Aug 25 20August 25, 2020Article at The Walrus
The Comedy Culture WarEvery tuesday night at a Vancouver restaurant called The Kino, comedians take the stage to work on their routines, to practise before bringing an act somewhere bigger. For a while, The Kino’s biggest claim to fame was that, one evening a few years… May 25 20May 25, 2020Article at The Walrus
Setting the CanLit canon on fireOn a November evening in 2018, writers, scholars and readers pack a room in Simon Fraser University’s downtown Vancouver campus for the launch of an anthology called Refuse: CanLit in Ruins. The collection marks a moment of turmoil in our national… Mar 06 20March 06, 2020Article at University Affairs
Archives are adapting to an era of digitization and decolonization“Acknowledging that [Indigenous communities] have sovereignty over the material and that it is indeed not yours is one of the key things we’re trying to promote in the work that we’re doing with the archival community.” In 1971, when Algoma… Sep 18 19September 18, 2019Article at University Affairs
The Perils of Professional DressWhen I was nineteen, I worked full time as a front-desk clerk in a business hotel in downtown Edmonton. This was during a period between high school and university when I was broke and couch surfing. I had no money, no parental safety net, and no… Jul 29 19July 29, 2019Article at The Walrus
Why You Need To Watch Netflix's 'Russian Doll'Entertainment The hit series is the latest example of powerful and highly binge-able TV created by and about women. Television has become a better place for women. Comedies like Broad City and Parks and Recreation have made space for representations… Feb 21 19February 21, 2019Article at Chatelaine
Celebrating the arts downtownIn his 1919 “Bauhaus Manifesto,” German architect Walter Gropius laid out his plan for the revitalization of the visual arts. He believed that the salon system of art education had grown elitist and stagnant because it had lost touch with… Dec 19 18December 19, 2018Article at University Affairs
Why Wearing Lipstick Is a Small Act of Joyful ResistanceJust over a week before Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won the US Democratic party’s nomination for New York’s Fourteenth Congressional District on June 26, many people had one question for the twenty-eight-year-old political candidate—what was the… Oct 22 18October 22, 2018Article at The Walrus
