BIPOC
Sumaiya Tufail to deliver TEDxSFU talk on poetry as resistance
July 24, 2023Editor’s note: The Peak would like to note that Josh Ralla, one of our staff members, is an executive director of TEDxSFU, but had no involvement in writing this article. Sumaiya Tufail began the Slam Poetry Club at SFU last summer as a way of creating a safe space for racialized artists to express themselves through poetry. Growing up in Surrey, Tufail was inspired by her Grade 11 Humanities teacher after introducing her to spoken word poetry as a way for students to speak their truths. Tufail found it “a cool way to express [her] emotions and find power through…
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Dialogue series highlights diversity among BC youth
May 30, 2023Editor’s note: Jocelyn Wong, who was interviewed for this piece, has previously contributed to The Peak. The Peak acknowledges and has taken steps to prevent conflicts of interest or potential bias from influencing the article. On May 6, Alice Mũrage…
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Former vice president external and community affairs disapproves of SFSS budget cuts
May 23, 2023Former vice president external and community affairs, Eshana Baran, made several Twitter posts to inform students of sizable cuts in the Simon Fraser Student Society’s (SFSS) draft of next year’s budget. The new budget for 2023/24 cut funding for several…
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Alice Mũrage discusses the diversity among Black people in BC
March 14, 2023Alice Mũrage is a health researcher, health sciences PhD candidate, part of the Gender and COVID-19 project, and the director of the African Ancestry Project. The Peak attended a talk where she presented her findings from her report for the…
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The second class treatment of first class athletes
March 2, 2023In March 2019, members of the US women’s national soccer team filed a gender discrimination lawsuit against their umbrella organization, US Soccer. The lawsuit speaks to the systemic underpaying of US women soccer players in comparison to the US men’s…
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Urban inequalities for women and marginalized communities
February 15, 2023Tiffany Muller Myrdahl is a senior lecturer at SFU and her research analyzes urban inequalities and inclusion strategies that target women and the LGBTQIA2S+ community. In an interview with Myrdahl, she told The Peak how urban inequalities exist today, and…
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Five local BIPOC and/or queer-owned businesses
July 31, 2022With farmer’s markets and festivals popping up all over the city this summer, there is no better time to explore small local businesses. Spending your money on local businesses has a myriad of benefits over shutting yourself in a corporate…
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Opinions in Dialogue: “BIPOC,” progressive or problematic?
March 7, 2021by Madeleine Chan, Onosholema Ogoigbe, and Idara Udonya BIPOC, an acronym used to encompass Black, Indigenous, and people of colour, has gained increased usage over the past year. A revision of POC (people of colour), the term aims to acknowledge…
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The Bright-er Side: Hallmark movies are showing more diversity
February 2, 2021I usually refer to watching Hallmark movies as my guilty pleasure. Not because they’re super cheesy, but because of the network’s history of prioritizing white, cisgender, heterosexual, and overall normative stories. However, with the latest batch of Christmas movies, I’ve…
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#OURDecisionSFU calls upon the university to acknowledge the real reason behind the “Clan” name change
October 30, 2020SFU has an extensive history of participating in institutional racism against Black students, faculty, and staff. The hesitancy to acknowledge and address the SFU athletics team name of the ‘Clan’ continues to be one of SFU’s most blatant displays of…
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