media
Crip Trip: a road trip against institutionalization
July 31, 2025Crip Trip is a docu-series about two friends and filmmakers, Frederick Kroetsch and Daniel Ennett, who set out on a road trip from Edmonton to New York. Ennet, a multidisciplinary artist and disability justice advocate, is a quadruple amputee trying to find full-time employment to avoid institutionalization. The series follows them on their trip as they meet other disabled people across North America who are facing issues regarding care and mobility. The docu-series aired this year in April. Despite its comedic undertones, the series is raw and infuriating. Instead of focusing primarily on the specifics of disability, it focuses on…
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SFU community members awarded for their media presence in 2023
March 6, 2024The Simon Fraser University 2023 Newsmaker Award recipients were announced earlier this month to distinguish researchers for their work in media and news communication. The four award recipients have contributed significantly to their communities by engaging in different conversations including…
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The west is villainizing the Chinese government
March 20, 2023Content warning: mentions of anti-Asian violence and racism. China has consistently been featured in western news for one reason or another these last couple years. Beginning with the COVID-19 outbreak, western media and government officials have villainized China for their…
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Panel discusses role of media in Russia-Ukraine war
November 8, 2022SFU Public Square, in collaboration with Digital Democracies Institute, SFU School of Communication, and SFU School for International Studies hosted a panel discussion on “The Russia-Ukraine War and Media.” The panel investigated the role of the media in formulating public…
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Cancellation 2.0: We need an addendum to cancel culture
June 9, 2022Content warning: mention of suicide Cancel culture at its core is a beautiful concept: if you’re found to be behaving in a way that hurts others, people stop supporting you. But what the cancel culture era needs now is a…
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Disproportionate reporting on invasion of Ukraine shows mainstream media’s racism
March 16, 2022On February 25, 2022, CBS news reporter Charlie D’Agata said, “This is a relatively civilized, relatively European — I have to choose those words carefully, too — city where you wouldn’t expect that or hope that it’s going to happen.”…
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Mainstream media needs to address its sex stigma
February 13, 2022Doing 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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Making room for asexual folk is more important than awkward representation
February 9, 2020I’m not going to lie: being asexual is like being the weird kid sitting in the back of the queer bus who gives a little too much intense eye contact and has an odd obsession with collecting bugs. We don’t…
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SFU libraries remove fines on general collection items
September 6, 2018SFU libraries have ceased charging fines for overdue items from their general collection until they are recalled, and they have increased borrowing and renewal time for most books to a full term. These changes were put into effect in…
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The Good, the Alright, and the Just Plain Bad of sex work in media
February 7, 2018Sex work has been featured openly in the media since at least the 1950s, but we haven’t necessarily gotten better at portraying it in the last seventy or so years. Some shows and movies still feed into negative stereotypes and…
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Simon Fraser University’s independent student newspaper since 1965.
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For promotional inquiries: [email protected]