gender equality
New Music: Vivek Shraya releases single and announces new album, Baby You’re Projecting
March 20, 2023By: C Icart, Staff Writer My first encounter with Vivek Shraya’s work was through her book, I’m Afraid of Men. Shraya’s powerful account of her relationship with masculinity in the context of homophobia, transphobia, and misogyny was unfortunately very relatable for me and helped me find language to talk about fears I was experiencing. While the book opens with “I’m afraid of men because it was men who taught me fear,” she goes on to highlight how her gender nonconformity (or gender expression) is the reason men (and women) fear her. In her new single, “Good Luck (You’re Fucked),” Shraya…
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The amount of inequities female athletes face is ridiculous
June 22, 2021By: Maya Beninteso, SFU Student Content warning: Mention of eating disorders It’s 2021 and, to be completely honest, I am fed up with the inequities faced by female athletes. If you have ever seen the comment section on Instagram accounts…
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S. Laurel Weldon inducted into the Royal Society of Canada
October 30, 2020Written by: Mahdi Dialden, News Writer SFU political science Professor S. Laurel Weldon has been inducted into the Royal Society of Canada (RSC), which honours researchers for their achievements in their respective fields. Professor Weldon’s research specializes in the role…
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SFU partners with nonprofit to track gender representation in news story sources
February 12, 2019SFU partnered with nonprofit Informed Opinions to create a Gender Gap Tracker, which tracks “the number of women and men quoted in major news platforms in Canada,” according to SFU News. Informed Opinions was founded as a project for the…
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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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Students should be allowed preferred names on SFU ID cards
September 29, 2014Whenever someone pronounces my surname wrong, I smile, correct them, and jokinglyexplain how vowels hadn’t yet been invented when my ancestors came to the Western world. But despite the jokes I make in regards to my name, I fully understand…
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