By: Petra Chase, Arts & Culture Editor Content warning: mentions of displacement by police and the death of a loved one. It’s difficult to even begin to understand the complex set of social issues that overlap for Vancouver’s unhoused populations. Residents in the Downtown Eastside (DTES) neighbourhood routinely experience additional instability under police enforcement’s ongoing attempts to displace them. As desensitization to such injustices become normalized in our cities, everyone should read Losing Hope, Finding Home. The collection of stories and poems documenting the experiences of those who are unhoused or inadequately housed reminds us unhoused folks deserve compassion. The…
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Are you looking to be a part of SFU’s new semesterly student-run magazine focused on long-form journalism and creative writing? We’re accepting applications for an Associate Editor in charge of non-fiction content, an Associate Editor in charge of fiction content, and…
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Are you looking to be a part of SFU’s first student-run magazine focused on long-form journalism and creative writing? The Peak Publications Society will be producing a special 50th anniversary magazine called The Tartan as a pilot project for a…
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SFU Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies (GSWS) professor Lucas Crawford has just been named the Canadian Women in the Literary Arts’ Critic-in-Residence for 2015. The honour of being selected as the Critic-in-Residence has been awarded to one researcher each year…
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