Author Archives: Urooba Jamal
Top 16 Talon-Approved Initiatives on Campus
By Anne Kessler, updated from “The Top 10 Talon-Approved Initiatives on Campus” by Urooba Jamal Do you find yourself rapidly muttering expletives under your breath every time you engage in any type of mainstream media? Have the phrases “in solidarity with,” “hegemonic,” and “social construct” come to replace filler words like “um” and “like” in […]
Calling All Students of Conscience: Vote YES on Israel Divestment
An abridged version of this op-ed first appeared in The Ubyssey. In a recent op-ed in The Ubyssey by Koby Michaels, the case against adopting Boycott Divest and Sanctions (BDS) at UBC was made using the oft-repeated claim that the movement is anti-Semitic. Grossly selective and imprecise in its analysis, the author, and those others […]
Social Justice Synonyms #16: “Illegal Immigrant”
Welcome to the sixteenth segment of Social Justice Synonyms, a column at The Talon that discusses harmful and oppressive language embedded in our culture and provides ways to unlearn this language. This week’s term is illegal immigrant. This piece pulls from the work of Harsha Walia, a local South Asian activist, whose book Undoing Border […]
Gupta’s Twitter Townhall: One Hour of Neoliberalsplainin’
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President Gupta Accepts Racist Christmas Challenge
Every year at Christmas, a bunch of celebrities get together to ponder whether or not the predominantly Christian continent of Africa is aware that it is the annual celebration of Christ’s birth*. More accurately, they get together to question whether their stereotypical Africa – the hopeless, starving, disease-ridden continent of uneducated people suffering from malaria, […]
Meet the Editors: Urooba Jamal
They said I would get addicted. That once was not enough. That it would lead to more and more as I craved more and more. They were right. As soon as I had my first hit, I haven’t been able to stop since. Feminism was my gateway drug to social justice. It all began when […]
Furor, Fighting, Freedom, and Fanon: “Concerning Violence: Nine Scenes from the Anti-Imperialistic Self-Defense”
“And it is clear that in the colonial countries the peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside the class system is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays. For him there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms; colonization […]
To Exist is to Resist: a look at Palestine solidarity activism at UBC
This article is the second in a 3-part series that investigates Israel’s massacres in Gaza from a UBC perspective. It examines the challenges to Palestinian solidarity activism on campus. This first part provided a general overview of Canada’s relationship with Israel. The last piece will focus on Hillel UBC. In yet another harrowing series of […]
The Youth Rise Up Manifesto
Note: This piece was written and submitted by a group of individuals who are all involved with the Coalition of Progressive Electors. Ilana Shecter and Talon editor Urooba Jamal are COPE candidates in the upcoming election. Alex M, also a Talon editor, is on the COPE Executive Committee. Roshak Momtahen and Shawn Vulliez are active […]
The Top 10 Talon-Approved Initiatives on Campus
Do you find yourself rapidly muttering expletives under your breath every time you engage in any type of mainstream media? Have the phrases “in solidarity with”, “hegemonic” and “social construct” come to replace filler words like “um” and “like” in your daily lexicon? Is there a collective groan from your closest comrades every time you […]
