Angela Shen

The infinity neurodiversity symbol with eight people around it reaching for it or holding onto it. The symbol spans the whole area diagonally with the middle in white and the edges of the image to the outline of the symbol being multicoloured.
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Growing up unaware of my autistic identity

Olivia Visser July 18, 2022

The concept of neurodiversity was not widely discussed when I was growing up. People were either normal or they were weird. There was no nuance to this conversation, nor any way to approach our differences without creating an “us vs. them” dynamic. When I was diagnosed with autism at 21, I realized all the quirks I saw as alienating me from society were just differences that make me who I am — differences that are actually shared by many of my peers.  The word “neurodiversity” simply refers to the existing variation in human brains. Someone who is neurodivergent is someone…

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Truth and reconciliation: Tax the Church!

Chloë Arneson June 21, 2022

In Canada, we’ve created a subsidy for an institution that carried out a genocide on our soil. A subsidy for an institution that, when more and more evidence of that genocide is uncovered, has to be coerced into making an…

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An image of a brown woman professor trying to command the attention of the in-person class in front of her and the zoom class behind her and looking calm but holding her hand out questioningly
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The hybrid learning landscape at SFU

Olivia Visser June 6, 2022

What does the future of post-secondary teaching look like? Hybrid learning has been a hot topic since the transition towards temporary online learning due to COVID-19 and the subsequent return to in-person studies. Some have felt that pushing for permanent…

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