Earthy Edibles: Seasonal affective salad

Despite my intentions to eat as locally as possible, usually somewhere in the oily depths of winter I start reaching for citrus. And let’s face it, I eat avocado all year round. These are some of my guilty pleasures, but it’s hard to feel bad about something that’s so good for me. Avocado, with its [...]

Double Teamed: Just like ears… really

We recently watched a documentary on labiaplasty; here are our thoughts on the matter. Clorisa: This kind of surgery just brings up a whole lot of questions about plastic surgery in general, and when it’s needed and when it’s not needed, and when is it excessive? Dylan: Watching a woman cut her labia off made [...]

What’s Up With Her?: Identity politics

For decades, society has been seeing more and more identity politics: claiming an identity as a member of an oppressed or marginalized group. Legal scholar Kathryn Woodward argues in an article entitled Mapping The Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color that within a minority group there often exist intersecting minorities. Woodward [...]

In Search of Lost Time: Cake is better than sex

Sexual feelings and behaviour in Canadian society are incredibly diverse. Many sexual identities, however, are invisible in our society due to supposed rarity, misunderstanding, and the hegemony of heterosexuality overshadowing minority dispositions. Our multidimensional sexual character is determined through introspection and experimentation following our inborn sense of self as we develop. We then ascribe socially [...]

Earthy Edibles: Bean dreams

Basement Dweller Bean Dip In one of my past lives I worked in a low-ceilinged, dingy basement kitchen making dips and tapenades. We made such high volumes of these sumptuous spreads that we had to use the mother of all hand blenders, or what we dubbed the Bazooka. This baby was three feet long and [...]

Green Your World: Worth the risk?

The Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline hearings are underway in Kitimat, BC. If Enbridge and the federal government have their way, two pipelines will be built: one carrying crude oil from Edmonton to Kitimat, and another transporting condensate in the reverse direction. Their reasoning: open up the oil taps to the Asian markets and create jobs. [...]

What’s Up With Her?: Professional values

Professions such as law, business, medicine, and economics have been deemed in our society as prestigious work that pays well and is well respected. These are also professions that have been and still are male-dominated and have required qualities of having a business mentality and being emotionally detached, like a bull ready to bulldoze through [...]

Double Teamed: A tooth for a…

We’d both heard the myth about vaginas that have teeth; then we found an article online about this myth becoming a reality for one woman due to a dermoid cyst. Regardless of if vagina teeth are real or myth, we thought it was worthy of some discussion: Clorisa: Okay, on the count of three, say [...]

Earthy Edibles: Lovable lasagna

Warm-your-bones lasagna After my boyfriend’s Italian mother visited us over Christmas, I decided to make lasagna. Go figure. Hopefully, if she were here to taste it she wouldn’t accuse me of disgracing her culture. I, for one, am pretty damn happy with this recipe. Packed full of vegetables and creamy ricotta, this is winter food [...]

Double Teamed: Semen studies

We recently read an article online that claimed that semen is healthy for you if swallowed. So, for this issue’s installment of Double Teamed, let’s talk swallowing semen! Dylan: I feel like a dude who just wants to get head from his girlfriend wrote this entire thing. Clorisa: Right. And I question what a man [...]

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