Category Archives: Activism
Event Preview: Breaking Out Of Boxes
Gender assumptions and misconceptions affect each and every one of us every day. Breaking Out Of Boxes is an interactive performance which utilizes audience engagement and open discussion to address gender discrimination and feminism. This event seeks to reduce stigma associated with diverting from the societal expectations of gender identity. Changing the Lens is a […]
Call for editors!
Can you believe we’ve only been around since September? It’s been an amazing year. Unfortunately, about half of the folks who made that amazingness happen will be graduating next year, so we are looking to welcome some new editors and writers to The Talon team to continue the work we’ve been doing thus far. First […]
Meet the Editors: K.
My name is Kay, and my politics are about amplifying voices in the margins, honouring our complexities, and dismantling the colonial capitalist white supremacist cis-heteropatriarchy with transformative love, warm toques, rage, consent, and poetry on Friday nights… come join me.
Meet the Editors: Sarah K.
I centre my newness to ‘anti-o’ work in this introduction because the critical work done in academic spaces can often be or seem daunting or inaccessible. It doesn’t have to be, and I hope The Talon can be – among other things – an entry point to critical perspectives on a multitude of subjects for you, as it is has been and continues to be for me.
CUPE 2278 (TA Union): A Primer
How we began Imagine that you are a newly hired Teaching Assistant (TA) in the computer science department at UBC. You notice that your friends who are TAs in the sociology department are getting paid much less than you are. You are constantly working overtime, yet you are not getting paid for work done beyond […]
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 […]
The Talon’s Statement in Support of BDS at UBC
The Talon Editorial Collective endorses the UBC chapter of Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights’ (SPHR UBC) call to implement the Boycott, Divest and Sanctions (BDS) movement at UBC. As such, we endorse the following referendum question: “Do you support your student union (AMS) in boycotting products and divesting from companies that support Israeli war crimes, […]
Femconcept
Over the Christmas holidays I spent most of my time catching up with folks in my hometown. After the “how’s school?” spiel, most of these conversations eventually curved toward the subject of my radio show on CiTR. To provide detail as well as to propagate ourselves, myself and long time pal and CiTR Student Executive […]
Reconciling Whom I Love with Where I Love
This piece originally appeared in the recent (and first ever) “Sowing Seeds and Setting Roots: An Outweek 2015 Zine.” Outweek is a series of events hosted annually by the Pride Collective at UBC. For “Sowing Seeds and Setting Roots,” they encouraged submissions that took intersectional approaches to queer identity. We encourage you to check out the zine […]
Gupta’s Twitter Townhall: One Hour of Neoliberalsplainin’
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