What’s Up With Her: Time for a control checkReading a recent Monday Magazine, it became apparent that it’s not a great month for us virgos. Astrologist Georgia Nichols’ horoscope (my favorite!) said that low energy and tiredness are overwhelming. (Exams anyone?) After that cheery news, I continued working my way from back to front in search of the next article popper. Almost at […] Continue Reading |
Green Your World: Not just for hippiesStereotypes. They exist because most of us can’t help but generalize our observations. Yet, because of them we’re often quick to judge a person or an issue without looking deeper. Many people think environmentalists are a bunch of smelly, tree-hugging hypocrites that use their cell phones one moment and decry any type of industrial development […] Continue Reading |
In Search of Lost Time: Essentialism DangersThe sciences have provided us with a lot of benefits and technologies that improve and stimulate our daily lives. However, the sciences are a double-edged sword that can be wielded with machinations toward certain minorities and socially deviant groups in our society. The study of genetics and the discovery of a “gay” gene is one […] Continue Reading |
Earthy Edibles: Seasonal affective saladDespite 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 […] Continue Reading |
Double Teamed: Just like ears… reallyWe 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 […] Continue Reading |
What’s Up With Her?: Identity politicsFor 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 […] Continue Reading |
In Search of Lost Time: Cake is better than sexSexual 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 […] Continue Reading |
Earthy Edibles: Bean dreamsBasement 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 […] Continue Reading |
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. […] Continue Reading |
What’s Up With Her?: Professional valuesProfessions 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 […] Continue Reading |
