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 […]
Event Preview: “maladjusted”
“maladjusted” explores the mechanization of the mental health system with a goal of creating a discussion on how to move towards more human-centred care. This interactive forum theatre is created and performed by patients and caregivers. Organized by Theatre for Living at the Firehall Arts Centre, the performance is going on until March 28. Please […]
Event Preview: Social Justice Centre Conference
The Social Justice Centre Conference is taking place from Tuesday March 24 to Monday March 30. Main Facebook event I will never forget that Adolfo gave his life and blood for this land, and I will do the same. – Angelica Choc On 27 September 2009 Adolfo Ich Chamán, a respected Mayan Q’eqchi’ leader in […]
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.
Social Justice Synonyms #19: “Slave”
In honour of Rule Out Racism Week here at UBC, this week’s Social Justice Synonym is dedicated to the term “slave.” The casual use of the word “slave” to express conditions that are considered unfair (“Working this hard, and this long on a project is basically slavery”) or even to convey how hard a person […]
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.
10 Shitty Things about Vancouver Nightlife: A QWOC* Perspective
TW: this article contains mentions of rape, harassment and sexual assault. As a queer, black woman, moving through a straight, white world can be challenging. From everyday micro-aggressions to huge systemic structures of discrimination, our society privileges those who are very much not me. This is evident when I’m picked out in class to give […]
“We are immigrants, not criminals”: An interview with Mexican whistleblower Karla Lottini
Karla Lottini (a pseudonym for Karla Berenice García Ramírez) is a Mexican journalist who in 2008 was forced to flee the country after exposing government corruption. She came to Vancouver with her family seeking refugee status, which she was finally granted in 2012. Karla published The Talent of the Charlatans (El talento de los farsantes) […]
