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Xiao Lu and the “fight for authorship” over her art
October 13, 2023By: Izzy Cheung, Staff Writer Content warning: mentions of gunshots used for art-making. Note: quotations taken from Xiao Lu were translated from Mandarin to English by a translator at the event. Nestled deep in Sun Wah Centre on Keefer Street is Centre A, a public art gallery displaying “contemporary Asian and Asian-diasporic perspectives.” On September 29, the gallery hosted a talk by Chinese-Australian artist, Xiao Lu, done in partnership with SFU’s David Lam Centre. The presentation, delivered in both Mandarin and English, captured the stories behind some of Lu’s most thought-provoking works of art, such as “Polar,” “Holy Water,” and…
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Club Profile: VeggieSFU
November 8, 2022By: Petra Chase, Arts & Culture Editor The writer of this piece is affiliated with VeggieSFU. VeggieSFU has been steadily racking up members and sparking discussions among SFU’s vast plant-based community. It’s a club which exists to “create community, facilitate…
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Women’s issues shouldn’t just matter to women
July 27, 2022By: Hannah Kazemi, Peak Associate I was laying half-naked on a crinkly white sheet of paper with my legs spread, waiting to get a little T-shaped plastic device put into my uterus, when I opened Instagram and learned that Roe v.…
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Mainstream media needs to address its sex stigma
February 13, 2022By: Maya Beninteso, Peak Associate Doing it, the devil’s tango, knocking boots — these are all euphemisms used to avoid a simple three-letter word: sex. Why do we feel the need for all these euphemisms in order to avoid one word?…
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Kickstart Disability’s event speakers talk candidly about how disability and ableism affect their art
November 10, 2020By: Serena Bains, Staff Writer Editor’s note: The language used in this piece is at the writer’s discretion as a member of the disabled community but perspectives on identity-first or person-first language vary within the disability community. 10 x 5:…
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Dialogue, not debate, is needed for democracy
September 11, 2020by Madeleine Chan, Opinions Editor I really couldn’t pinpoint when social media became such a tiring vortex of people just screaming their opinions, hoping that others will scream back. This kind of chaos is also so prevalent in the realm of…
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SFPIRG series offers Canadian perspectives on Palestine-Israel conflict
October 13, 2014The Simon Fraser Public Interest Group (SFPIRG), hosted a film and discussion series over the past two weeks called, “Palestine and the Creation of the State of Israel.” The series, which featured talks titled “A Brief History,” “Life Under Occupation,”…
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