dialogue

Black and white portrait of Xiao Lu.
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Xiao Lu and the “fight for authorship” over her art

Izzy Cheung October 13, 2023

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 “Skew.”   Lu is an artist…

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Photo of a variety of vegetebles, including carrots, peppers, cuccumbers
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Club Profile: VeggieSFU

Petra Chase November 8, 2022

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 discussion, and provide support and resources for…

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Man distracted from women talking
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Women’s issues shouldn’t just matter to women

Hannah Kazemi July 27, 2022

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. Wade was overturned. There…

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A couple are leaning into each other. Both appear somewhat femme, and look like they’re enjoying themselves.
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Mainstream media needs to address its sex stigma

Maya Beninteso February 13, 2022

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? Despite sex being a…

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Dialogue, not debate, is needed for democracy

Madeleine Chan September 11, 2020

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 politics, with heated, daily…

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SFPIRG series offers Canadian perspectives on Palestine-Israel conflict

Peak Web October 13, 2014

The 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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