equality
The second class treatment of first class athletes
March 2, 2023By: Saije Rusimovici, Staff Writer In 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 team. While it’s hard to estimate the total amount of money national soccer players make because of how much of a role bonuses play, women generally receive less money even when they do better in soccer competitions. Case in point, the US women’s soccer team received $4 million for their Federation Internationale de Football Association World…
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SFU students organize Vancouver’s first annual International Women’s Day March
February 27, 2023By: Natalie Cooke, News Writer Editor’s note: Yasmin Vejs Simsek, who was interviewed for this piece, is a former Peak employee. Karissa Ketter, a current editor who worked on the article, is also an organizer. The Peak acknowledges and has…
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“Homelands: Exile and Return” with Kamal Al-Solaylee and Amyn Sajoo
February 9, 2023By: Natalie Cooke, News Writer Kamal Al-Solaylee shared his story, knowledge, and writing at the Homelands: Exile and Return event. Al-Solaylee is a director and professor in the School of Journalism, Writing, and Media at UBC. The event was led…
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SFU professor discusses “the motherhood penalty” in the workplace
March 24, 2021Written by: Karissa Ketter, News Writer “My focus this [International Women’s Day] was to debunk the language of choice that is so often used to frame how women navigate their impossible slate of labours,” said SFU sociology professor Dr. Amanda…
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The next step in women’s sexual freedom is access to free contraceptives
February 10, 2020By: Meera Eragoda, Staff Writer As someone who has had the experience of having my birth control switched up about seven times due to side effects, I’m well aware of the cost of prescription birth control. Each switch has increased the…
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Gendered washrooms are redundant for our needs
February 8, 2020By: Madeleine Chan, Staff Writer Imagine this: you’re walking in the AQ after a long, boring class. Suddenly, you’re hit with the urge to relieve yourself. You scan your surroundings, desperately hoping to spot one of those little square signs…
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We need to recognize female athletes with equitable funding and coverage
June 23, 2019By: Naaz Sekhon, SFU Student Being the year 2019, one would expect equality to have been achieved in all aspects of life, including sports. However, the harsh reality is that there is still much work to be done in the…
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Give the penis its time in the limelight
July 18, 2016Flaccid penises are awkward. There really isn’t any other way around it. They just kind of hang there, flopping about in the breeze. But that really isn’t a good enough reason to not feature more full-frontal male nudity in film…
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Stop looking for reasons not to be a feminist
January 18, 2016[dropcap]F[/dropcap]eminism is the F-word of 2016. I like to think that most people in this day and age are feminists — self-proclaimed or not. Yet a lot of people I encounter are very against this movement, and some are even…
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Seeing colour isn’t the problem. Racism is.
January 18, 2016[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hen I was in the eighth grade, I read The Giver. The novel was centred around a 12-year-old boy who lived in a society that could only see black and white, devoid of all emotion, passion, and colour. I remember…
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