Meera Eragoda
Need to Know, Need to Go – October 5 to 11
October 5, 2020By: Meera Eragoda, Arts & Culture Editor SFU Writer-in-Residence Launch | October 8, 7 to 8 p.m. | Free with registration The SFU English department is hosting a launch and reading for new Writer-in-Residence Juliane Okot Bitek. The event will…
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Five brilliant Canadian podcasts to engage, inform, and entertain you
September 14, 2020By: Meera Eragoda, Arts & Culture Editor If you’re anything like me, you listen to hours of podcasts in a week — but somehow, the majority of them end up being American and you’re left wondering where all the Canadian…
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Looking forward to fall with SFU’s newest Writer-in-Residence, Juliane Okot Bitek
September 14, 2020By: Meera Eragoda, Arts & Culture Editor As the fall semester kicks off in remote fashion, so does Juliane Okot Bitek’s role as SFU’s 2020–21 Ellen and Warren Tallman Writer-in-Residence. Okot Bitek is an award-winning and prolific writer, poet, and…
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Sounds Like Growth tackles food sovereignty and encourages engagement with land
September 8, 2020By: Meera Eragoda, Arts & Culture Editor This year’s Vines Arts Festival took place from August 5 to 15 in various parks across Vancouver. According to the event’s website the festival’s goal is to feature artists who are “working toward…
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Mixing things up with mixology: my journey into cocktail making
July 20, 2020By: Meera Eragoda, Arts and Culture Editor During the height of social distancing restrictions, my partner had his birthday. In celebration, one of his friends made a contactless dropoff of a whiskey sour in a mason jar. He split this with…
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DOXA’s There’s No Place Like This Place, Anyplace provides a poignant look at gentrification anywhere
June 23, 2020By: Meera Eragoda, Arts & Culture Editor As COVID-19 inequities have shown, gentrification has long been a hot topic in Vancouver and many other cities across Canada. It’s a word packed with a lot of meaning. Without oversimplifying it too…
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Abolition, not reform, is the answer to the problem of police brutality
June 22, 2020By: Meera Eragoda, Arts & Culture Editor The recent prominence gained by the push to “abolish/defund the police” has mainstream politicians like Trudeau scrambling to turn these movements into a conversation about police reform. Not only does the focus on reform…
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Seven Black panelists break down Canada’s systemic anti-Black racism
June 14, 2020By: Meera Eragoda, Arts & Culture Editor In response to the recent calls for anti-racism, Feminists Deliver, a BC grassroots organization, decided to host the talk Resistance and Resurgence: Confronting Anti-Black Racism in Canada. Feminists Deliver is an anti-oppressive, decolonial,…
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Opinions in Dialogue: Systemic change can’t happen without racial solidarity
June 13, 2020By: Kelly Chia, Features Editor; Meera Eragoda, Arts Editor; Nicole Magas, Opinions Editor Introduction 2020 has been a difficult year for a number of racialized communities. The pandemic spread of COVID-19, which precipitated violent anti-Asian backlash and which disproportionately affected Black…
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