Category Archives: Multimedia
The Far-Right Grift: Ex-Muslim Edition
For Islamophobes, there are few people more useful than Yasmine Mohammed. And it is a somewhat mutually beneficial relationship—at least for now. For ex-Muslims willing to ignore or even defend bigotry, the temptation to accept a lucrative home among a growing community of far-right grifters appears to be almost irresistible. Yasmine’s story is compelling. A […]
UBC’s Alternative Orientation Booklet: Resisting the University 2019/2020 (Downloadable PDF)
At the Social Justice Centre and the Women’s Centre, we are reviving old traditions with this year’s new alternative orientation booklet. We envision this booklet as an opportunity to situate students, introduce them to powerful groups, both on campus and off, and speak to the myriad ways that resistance and resurgence is taking place in and around us. We invite you to engage in and reflect on your roles on this campus, recognizing that this is unique to each person, and to broaden your imagination of what is possible. We wish that this booklet sparks hope and empowers our communities.
Collectively Speaking: A Teach-In On Free Speech
Title: Collectively Speaking: A Teach-In on Free Speech Date: October 31, 2018 Location: Outside the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts Description: A gathering outside the Chan Centre, where the Free Speech Club hosted American conservative political commentator Ben Shapiro. While our event is not a direct protest against Shapiro, it is a logical civic […]
Unearthing: A Mining Justice Zine
Dear Readers, This zine is the collective effort of the 2018 iteration of the class: “Geography 495: Social Movements in the Americas: The politics of North-South solidarity in theory & practice” taught by Dr. Juanita Sundberg. As we moved through the class we learned about “extractivismo or the (re)turn to resource extraction as development and […]
Vancouver Municipal Election Voter Information
A note from the Talon’s Editorial Collective: We would like to acknowledge that this municipal election is taking place on the occupied, unceded, traditional, and ancestral territories of the Coast Salish peoples, specifically the sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) nations. As uninvited guests studying and working on these lands, we participate in the […]
“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 […]
“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 […]
Blooms across Borders
Sarah Munawar – @SarahMun0 PhD student in the Department of Political Science
Unapologetic
Pictured is Maneo Mohale wearing her identity to the March Against Racism in March 2015.
Maneo has written about this t-shirt in an article published in HOLAAfrica.
