Black spaces that feel like home

Last December, I went home to see my family for the holidays, as I do every year. It was a great time, and after...

Remembering Assata Shakur

Content warning: mentions of solitary confinement. Humans of all walks of life leave an imprint as they live. But once they’re gone, this imprint solidifies...

“Science lost to fear”: BC’s halted drug decriminalization program

In January 2026, the BC government announced their drug decriminalization policy “has not delivered the results we hoped for” and that the province would...

Long Story Short: I’m learning to redefine my understanding of rest

Content warning: brief mention of slavery. I knew beginning university would be a big change. Now that I’ve finished my first semester, I wouldn’t say...

Temporal, spatial, and interrelational passages from The Lyre 16’s team

The Lyre Mag, one of SFU’s longest current running undergraduate journals, published their 16th edition in October 2025. Operating out of the department of...

A summer Christmas in Costa Rica

“Pura vida” is the unofficial national motto of laid-back, cloudless Costa Rica. It is the one-size-fits-all response to life’s greatest satisfactions: good food, weather,...

On cannabis literacy and harm reduction

We might know about weed only through its either glamorized or demonized representations in media. But what might a more mindful approach to cannabis...

The grand history of the spice trade

The modern world is full of magic if you take a minute to peek under the hood. One such thing that has struck me...

Spotlight on SFU Vocal Jazz

For the past few years, I’ve felt like a soprano singer trapped in the body of a student. How wondrous would it be to...

Life with type 1 diabetes

In September 2019, I lay in a hospital bed at BC Children’s Hospital. A nurse hovered over me, poking my finger with a device...