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 […]
In-depth with AMS Presidential Candidate Maistoo’a waastaan (Rodney Little Mustache)
This interview took place on the traditional, unceded, occupied, and stolen land of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm speaking xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) people. The Talon believes it is important to interrogate and remain critical of settler colonial educational institutions, such as the University of British Columbia. Rodney Little Mustache is a Two-spirit member of the Piikani Nation of the […]
Protect Student Democracy and Fight for Transparency at UBC – Vote NO on the Fee Restructuring Referendum
As of this Monday, students at UBC are voting on a referendum proposal that would put several UBC funds to a three-year referendum cycle. While the AMS has been claiming that the fee restructuring that they are proposing would increase transparency and democracy in AMS operations; the handling of the entire referendum process, as well […]
Susan Rice is a War Criminal and Should Not Lecture at UBC
I recently discovered that the Lind Institute is hosting the former US ambassador to the United Nations (UN) Thursday, February 15 at UBC. I posted my utter shock and disagreement on the Facebook event page, but it is likely my post will be deleted. I invite you to read the following piece outlining the war […]
Art and Activism: Annual Talon Party
We would like to acknowledge that this event will be held on the occupied, unceded, traditional, and ancestral territories of the Coast Salish peoples, specifically the sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) nations. This event will be happening on Friday, February 13, 2018 from 5 PM – 7 PM at Lev Bukhman Theatre Lounge […]
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 […]
Prize
Trigger Warning: Sex, Offensive Language as I sexualize you I watch myself objectify you cut clothes to fit your frame move you till you’re perfectly arranged until we’re in intimate role plays a conductor you’re my instrument I pray to never act this way to love a lie I create, a charade these instincts […]
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 […]
