# I AM A STUDENT Holds General Student Assembly
A General Student Assembly was held on Tuesday to facilitate discussion and organize action against the recently proposed tuition and residence fee increases. I Am A Student – UBC, a recently-created student group dedicated to action against the university’s recently proposed 10% international tuition fee hikes and 20% residence fee hikes, organized the event. Around […]
Furor, Fighting, Freedom, and Fanon: “Concerning Violence: Nine Scenes from the Anti-Imperialistic Self-Defense”
“And it is clear that in the colonial countries the peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside the class system is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays. For him there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms; colonization […]
Public Art: Understanding Students’ Desires for Campus Aesthetics
The UBC Vancouver campus is full of a brilliant range of public art pieces that have been generously donated by alumni and community members. According to the Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery Outdoor Tour, the purpose of these art pieces is to “enrich the campus environment”. Many of them are in the form of sculptures […]
Kaitlyn Melton’s Teach-In Speech:
Hello everyone. I want to start by echoing the sentiments of others who have spoken and thank you for taking the time to come out and learn and understand the complex dynamics behind everything that’s been happening these past few weeks. My name is Kaitlyn Melton, and I am the president of the Residence Hall […]
#raisetherates: BC’s 3rd Annual Welfare Challenge
Shila is a third year Bachelor’s of Social Work student, a queer woman of colour, and an international student from Indonesia passionate about food, politics, and anti-oppressive social work practice. Samantha is a Vietnamese Chinese Canadian teenager born and raised in south east van. She is in her third year at UBC and plans on […]
Rad Bike of the Week 3: Sup
“That taste of freedom, feeling of infinity…” Sup Suppaiboonsuk – 3rd year Chemical and Biological Engineering Sup was stopped on her Rad Bike just outside of IKB library, looking dynamite on her tiny red 1980’s vintage apollo road bike. I caught up her with later that week for a few of her insights on […]
3 Talon-Approved Events this Week
PANEL DISCUSSION | RED SKIN, WHITE MASKS: REJECTING THE COLONIAL POLITICS OF RECOGNITION Glen Coulthard’s new book Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition is some pretty ground-breaking work. Coulthard, a professor in the First Nations Studies Program and the Department of Political Science at UBC, is an acclaimed academic and theorist. […]
Meet the Editors: Matthew Ward
My name is Matthew Ward and I am a 5th year queer Cree student from Driftpile First Nation. I am in the First Nations Studies Program and Political Science here at UBC. I left my home in Northern Alberta on the shores of Slave Lake to study theatre and music in Edmonton at the age […]
Social Justice Synonyms #4: “Retarded”
Welcome to the fourth segment of Social Justice Synonyms, a column at The Talon that discusses harmful and discriminatory language embedded in our culture and provides ways to unlearn this language. This week’s word is retarded. The word “retard” is derived from the Latin word retardare, meaning “to make slow, delay, or hinder”. It was […]
