C Icart
The Five Vengeances is a badass play
October 6, 2022By: C Icart, Staff Writer The Five Vengeances (T5V) is an action-packed play by Affair of Honor, a “fight and movement based theatre company” at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts. The production combines the work of playwright, Jovanni Sy and multimedia design collective, Chimerik 似不像. It’s a stunning reimagination of the Jacobean revenge tragedy genre, which, in the Jacobean period in England (1603–1625), depicted bloody portrayals of violence and murder in the name of revenge. As a queer theatre kid, you didn’t have to ask me twice if I wanted to see a play about a queer love story.…
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Here’s what you missed on Riverdale
October 5, 2022By: C Icart, staff writer There are currently 117 episodes of Riverdale. I have seen all of them. Any ridiculous plotline you can possibly think of has probably been done. At this point, I don’t think any of us can…
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Letter to a legend: Watching Serena Williams for the last time
October 1, 2022By: C Icart, Staff Writer Serena Williams won her first major title at the US Open in September 1999. She was 17, and I was six-months-old. By the time I started watching tennis with my parents, Williams’ reputation at the…
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The memefication of the Queen’s death
September 28, 2022By: C Icart, Staff Writer Content warning: mentions of colonialism, genocide, and sexual assualt Queen Elizabeth Ⅱ is dead and I feel like I’m one of the only people who didn’t find out through a meme. On the morning of…
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SFU Dining Commons: New look, same culinary experience
September 20, 2022By: C Icart, Staff Writer The Dining Commons is finally open! It boasts 28,000 square ft, 500 seats, and took $26 million to construct. But does it live up to the hype? Not really. I had already moved out of…
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SFU professor conducts study on men who experience domestic violence
September 20, 2022By: C Icart, Staff Writer Dr. Alexandra Lysova is the 2022 recipient of the Nora and Ted Sterling Prize in Support of Controversy. The associate professor in the SFU School of Criminology earned this prize for her research on intimate…
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Top five ways to figure out what to do when you walk into the wrong classroom
September 19, 2022By: C Icart, Staff Writer The fall semester has started, and students are again faced with the tremendous challenge of finding the right classroom. We’ve all done it. Confidently walked into a lecture hall, sat down in the front row…
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(Re)Approaching Accessibility: COVID-19 long haulers won’t teach us anything new about disability
September 6, 2022By: C Icart, Staff Writer Long COVID could change the way we think about disability in Canada, but it probably won’t. It’s been over two years since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Although vaccines were created and administered, there’s still so…
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BLACK AS U R: Shedding light on the intersection of Blackness and queerness
September 6, 2022By: C Icart, Staff Writer Content warning: descriptions of anti-Black violence, homophobia, transphobia, and trans misogyny From August 11–21, Out On Screen hosted the Vancouver Queer Film Festival for the 34th year. The festival “is the largest queer arts event…
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Cooling centres are not a solution to climate change
July 28, 2022By: C Icart, Peak Associate Are you ready for an extreme heat wave? Last year’s heat dome made many British Columbians painfully aware that they weren’t. Upwards of 600 people died in what was deemed “the deadliest weather event” in Canadian…
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