Michelle Young
Convenience isn’t always indulgence
November 10, 2025By: Zainab Salam, Opinions Editor and Michelle Young, Co-Editor-in-Chief Working in the food service industry, we often receive single-item delivery orders for something easy to make. When that happens, at least one person makes a snide remark regarding the “silly” notion of making such an order. The assumption is that the customer is idle, lethargic, and unmotivated. But is reality really that simple? It can be easy to forget how many silent battles people are fighting. From mental health struggles to caregiving responsibilities, to experiencing mobility issues — so much of life happens behind the scenes, where others are not…
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Lorena Alvarado explores memory in Lost Chapters
August 29, 2025By: Michelle Young, Co-Editor-in-Chief Lost Chapters (or Los capítulos perdidos) is a quiet and tender documentary/fiction hybrid set in Caracas, Venezuela. The film follows Ena, who is searching for “forgotten writer” Rafael Bolívar Coronado across the city. Lost Chapters will…
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What Grinds Our Gears: Ignoring laundry etiquette
June 4, 2025By: Michelle Young, Co-Editor-in-Chief Last year, I wrote a piece about how shared laundry rooms grind my gears. Well, upon reflection — it is not the shared laundry rooms that bother me, but rather, the completely irrational and inconsiderate attitude…
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Six non-fiction books that ask you to feel deeply
June 3, 2025By: Ashima Shukla, Staff Writer and Michelle Young, Co-Editor-in-Chief I love books that breathe — that smile gently at me and invite me into their orbit; that ask, “Will you join me? Will you look at what you’ve been avoiding?”…
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Emilia Pérez is entertaining — but reductive
January 15, 2025By: Michelle Young, Copy Editor Content warning: mentions of transphobia, homicides, and missing peoples cases. A crime-thriller musical about a trans Mexican cartel leader is an intriguing premise for a film, to say the least. Emilia Pérez (2024) received four…
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Quiz: Which Moo Deng are you?
October 22, 2024By: Michelle Young, Copy Editor Your Blenz order (warm milk) is wrong. You: Spit it out immediately. Despite the barista’s apology and offer to remake your drink, you insist on talking to the manager and lecture them about how you…
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Vancouver events for Latin American Heritage Month
October 15, 2024By: Michelle Young, Copy Editor and Hailey Miller, Staff Writer October is Latin American Heritage Month, with a variety of events happening across Vancouver and throughout the mainland through October 15 to November 3. Latincouver and the Vancouver Latin American…
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Concerns raised regarding recent SFU layoffs
July 13, 2024By: Michelle Young, Copy Editor This summer, SFU laid off nearly 100 staff and eliminated positions citing budget concerns. Some of those positions included administrative staff, such as jobs in Student Services — including positions in SFU Health and Counselling…
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What Grinds Our Gears: Not wrapping gifts
July 2, 2024By: Michelle Young, Copy Editor Before you say anything — I’m not talking about wrapping gifts in cheap plastic that creates landfill waste, as I swore off buying this kind of wrapping paper years ago. However, I don’t think sustainability…
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Horoscopes July 1–7
July 2, 2024By: Michelle Young, Copy Editor Aries March 21–April 19 Isekai this, isekai that. Everything you own is isekai because you deeply relate to boring protagonists with no personality, and use manga for wish fulfilment. I promise if you were thrown…
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