Category Archives: Culture
Space Campaign Update | Eviction Delayed | SFSS Rejects meeting with the Rotunda Community
December 13, 2018 Hello SOCA Followers and Supporters, We have some great news regarding our current space campaign. After multiple months of advocacy and campaigning against SFSS’ harmful decision to evict us on December 14, 2018, we have successfully got the eviction delayed to coincide with when the head lease of the current space ends. […]
“Pictures in Protest” by Zoe Hertz at the Hatch Art Gallery
“Pictures in Protest” put on in collaboration with the Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights Group by Zoe Hertz, will be showcasing a series of photographs depicting the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The exhibition will seek to explore the often-marginalized Palestinian perspective as a result of biased Western media sources and the implications that this has caused. The […]
resisting the university: an alternative orientation booklet (Downloadable Digital Version)
In this alternative orientation package, we aim to provide a map for the engagement of incoming and returning students and community members of UBC, especially since youth and students are commonly written off as apolitical and apathetic. Through this alternative orientation, we provide a platform for student movements and innovative groups to reach out to […]
Coming From Genocide
Yasmin Ullah’s parents left their village of Sinya Pra, Buthidaung township in Rakhine, in 1995, slightly more than a decade after Myanmar’s generals had stripped the Rohingya ethnicity of their citizenship. That year was 1982. It would be seven years before Aung San Suu Ki would be put under house arrest, thirty four years after […]
A Reflection on “March On, Vancouver! The Next Step March”
“What if we shift the question from ‘who do I want to be?’ to the question, ‘what kind of life do I want to live with others?’?… If the I who wants this name or seeks to live a certain kind of life is bound up with a ‘you’ and a ‘they’ then we are […]
Nazim Hikmet: The Red Giant Looming Over Turkish Poetry
This article originally appeared on Rebel Youth: http://rebelyouth-magazine.blogspot.ca/ “The flame of Hikmet which set hearts on fire can not be extinguished, as long as there are people, militants, who will struggle to improve life and make it more beautiful.” – Dimitri Koutsoumpas, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the KKE at the Scientific Congress […]
Respectability Politics doesn’t Protect Us
“After all the work I’ve done, after all the work our people have done, they don’t want us?” Those were my mother’s words the morning of Trump’s immigration ban. My mother is a chemical engineer who has greatly contributed to the field of wood pellet size reduction for their use in renewable energy. I couldn’t […]
The Post-Truth Politics of Jordan Peterson’s Gender Nonbinary Pronoun Debate
Is there some legitimacy in what he brings up about free speech and a culture of polarization that we too are concerned about? Absolutely. But what Peterson is using his “free speech” towards is the suppression of minority rights that he takes ideological issue with. We don’t support such “intellectual” thinking, or argument.
Whiteness Game
Dear white people, when your people voted for a terrorist You told me to fight anger with love, I did But the second I did you backstabbed me by killing my people, No I don’t want your love or hope in this game when you mindlessly carnage our souls, bodies for your bloodthirst, It […]
“Love will fix all”
When people tell me that Liberal-ized “LOVE” is the answer… that all we need is sole “love” to lick the well-deep wounds… I have this burning desire to respond: Will Love put my native tongue back into my bruised, post-9/11, numbing-cream™ filled mouth? Will it allow me to share my passions and heartaches with my […]
