Kelly Chia
Courses SFU should introduce
June 29, 2021By: Kelly Chia, Staff Writer Not needing parental validation | 48 credits (B-Soc) Do you find yourself having to justify your degree and its “worth” to your parents? This short 16-semester-long course will be valuable as a FASS student. You’ll finally learn how to stop tearing up when you’re asked what minimum wage job you want. You will learn how to confidently tell your peers what you major in, even if it’s philosophy and you refer to yourself as a stoic. This course even provides a brief introductory overview of how to mentally prepare for the question, “What do you…
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Access for All advocates for SFU to provide a safer environment proposal in their return-to-campus plan
June 27, 2021Written by: Kelly Chia, Staff Writer SFU released its four-stage reopening plan on May 26, 2021. In stage four, the plan proposes a 80–100% density return to campus for in-person learning. In response, Serena Bains, vice-president university and academic affairs…
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What niche characterized your queer adolescence?
June 25, 2021By: Kelly Chia, Staff Writer Have you ever realized you were queer and then realized the signs were definitely there when you were a teenager? This quiz will take you back to those endearingly embarrassing days. Warning: doing this quiz…
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Dakota Ray Hebert and Kliph Nesteroff talk about humour as a way of healing
June 19, 2021By: Kelly Chia, Staff Writer Content warning: Racial trauma, genocide The Vancouver Public Library featured Dakota Ray Hebert and Kliph Nesteroff in a discussion of Indigenous comedy history in North America. Hebert is a long-time Indigenous comic from Saskatoon, co-hosting…
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My journey with imposter syndrome
June 18, 2021by Kelly Chia, Staff Writer "I don't know enough to be good at this job." "There are so many things wrong with this. They're all going to think I'm a fraud." "You should know better by now. How do you…
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SFU department of history hosts a conversation on Liu Xiaobo
June 17, 2021Written by: Kelly Chia, Staff Writer On May 27, 2021, SFU hosted an event featuring professors Jeremy Brown and Perry Link in a conversation. They discussed Link’s forthcoming biography, co-authored by Wu Dazhi. It is about Liu Xiaobo, a figure…
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Planned obsolescence sucks
June 16, 2021By: Kelly Chia, Staff Writer Do you know how your phone has somewhere between two to three years before it starts slowing down? Or how you have to replace light bulbs every few months or so? That’s planned obsolescence in action,…
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“Made in Canada: an agricultural podcast” covers migrant worker issues in Canada
June 13, 2021By: Kelly Chia, Staff Writer Made in Canada: an agricultural podcast delves into the issues migrant workers face in Canada. Written and narrated by Pedro Chamale, SFU alum and co-director of rice & beans theatre, the podcast offers first-and-second-hand accounts…
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Jade City: A story of family, honour, and duty
June 5, 2021By: Kelly Chia, Staff Writer Let me preface this by saying Jade City is not the kind of book that I’d normally read: it brands itself as an “epic tale of family, honor, and those who live and die by…
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We should be able to trust our health authorities to be honest with us
June 3, 2021By: Kelly Chia, Staff Writer Since BC's officials instated restrictions, I have been checking my news feed diligently at 3 p.m. each day for COVID-19 case numbers. This helps me keep track of how our province is dealing with the…
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