Category Archives: Feminism
I Am Still Here: Reflections on #AmINext
A while back there was a social media campaign called “Am I Next?” which aimed to raise awareness about the numerous murdered and missing Native women in Canada. In solidarity with the campaign, many people changed their Facebook profile picture to a silhouette of a Native woman with a feather in her hair with the […]
Clearing the Fog: A retrospective on lessons learned from campus activism
Trigger warning: sexual assault, violence, racism A Timeline of Violence, Sexism, and Student Activism at UBC Vancouver (2013): April 19th/2013: “Stranger in the dark” sexual assault reported on UBC Vancouver campus May 19th/2013: Another “stranger in the dark” sexual assault reported; goes unreported to the campus community Sept 7/2013: CBC News reports Sauder School of […]
Social Justice Synonyms #14: “I raped that midterm”
Content note: This piece discusses rape, rape culture, child sexual abuse, colonialism, violence against sex workers, and transmisogyny. In honour of Sexual Assault Awareness Month here at UBC, this week’s Social Justice Synonyms will be dedicated to phrases which trivialize sexual violence, such as “I raped that midterm” or “that midterm raped me.” Casual use of […]
Every Year is the Year of Feminism
A week ago today, The Terry Project hosted a BARTalk that sought to assess how feminism fared in 2014. Panelists Lucia Lorenzi (PhD candidate in the English Literature department), Jarrah Hodge (blogger at Gender Focus) and Scott Anderson (professor in the philosophy department) discussed the events that gave feminism major media coverage over the past […]
Social Justice Synonyms #13: “Pig” and other Speciesist Terms
This week’s SJS article examines the harms of speciesist language – and why we shouldn’t propagate it even if animals can’t understand us.
Sexual Assault Awareness Month Launches at UBC
January is Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) at UBC, an initiative spearheaded by the University and the AMS. Access & Diversity and the AMS Sexual Assault Support Centre (SASC) are taking the lead in organizing and running events during SAAM, in partnership with many other campus organizations. All throughout January, members of the UBC community […]
The Legacy of December 6 at UBC: Moving Forward
Trigger warnings: Misogynistic Violence, Murder, Suicide, Mental Illness, Slurs Note: This is being published today, instead of actually on Dec 6, as to leave time for reflection, and concentrate on moving forward. Twenty-five years ago, as of December 6, 14 young women, most of them engineering students, were killed. Their names were Genevieve Bergeron, Helene […]
violence on the land, violence on our (student) bodies
this redwood tree is wearing a protective covering because it was literally beaten to a pulp. on our campus. by ubc students. the tree, which stands on the north side of the first nations longhouse, is long known to some students as “the punching tree”. one blogger even advised the world wide web that, “you […]
Why I Didn’t Report
Our society has created the perfect platform for violation of female or feminized bodies, as it is founded upon violence, colonialism and the sexual power and privilege of cisgender heterosexual men.
Social Justice Synonyms #8: “Bitch”
Welcome to another segment of Social Justice Synonyms, a column at The Talon that works to foster the unlearning of oppressive words in our everyday language by explaining why they are harmful and providing inclusive alternatives. For more insight, check out our past segments: intro/crazy, man up, classy & poor, retarded, reverse racism, slut, and […]
