Molly Lorette
Your weekly SFU Horoscopes: January 17–23
January 18, 2021By: Molly Lorette, Peak Associate Aries: How is that fourth New Year's resolution going? Maybe if you actually stuck with something for longer than a month, you could make a change in your life. Pick up those roller skates you bought back in March 2020 and become the unattainable manic pixie dream entity of your dreams. Taurus: Taurus, I think you have some control issues that need some addressing. This week during your Starbucks™ visit, try not to stand directly at the bar in order to watch your barista’s every move. Well, at least they can’t hear your huffing through…
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Monday Music: Songs for morally ambiguous villains
November 10, 2020By: Molly Lorette, Peak Associate There’s rarely anything more intriguing than a well-written and morally complex villain. Of course, a cool motive rarely justifies the atrocities committed by a villain, but it does make the story much more exciting. Not…
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Toast the spirits in your building with horror podcast Demons and Bellinis
October 25, 2020By: Kelly Chia, Peak Associate Demons and Bellinis is a podcast started by two SFU students, Molly Lorette and Ashley Smith, in 2018. Demons and Bellinis is a project where the two long-time friends talk shit about demons — and at 32…
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Word Vancouver 2020 event highlights the power of family collaboration through poetry collection
October 10, 2020By: Molly Lorette, Peak Associate Due to the present circumstances of a pandemic, Word Vancouver converted their 2020 festival to an online format. Last year, the event celebrated its 25th anniversary and has been regarded as one of the largest…
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Dr. David Chariandy’s works show that both fiction and nonfiction are vital to understanding racism
October 6, 2020By: Molly Lorette, Peak Associate On August 20, SFU’s own Dr. David Chariandy, an English professor, was featured in USA Today’s “100 Black novelists and fiction writers you should read.” The list is prefaced with the notion that, “Nonfiction books…
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Where is the fourth floor of the AQ?
October 5, 2020By: Molly Lorette, Peak Associate Have you ever stepped into the elevator on your way to a tutorial on the fifth floor of the AQ and noticed that the buttons conveniently jump from three to five? Have you noticed that…
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Not offering ASL classes is an accessibility issue
September 20, 2020by Molly Lorette, Peak Associate Personally, I think that it is absolutely atrocious that SFU does not offer courses to learn American Sign Language (ASL). Currently, VCC, UBC, and Douglas College have all taken steps to ensure further accessibility for…
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A Zoom love story: How I fell in love within the confines of a 4x5cm box
September 10, 2020By Molly Lorette, Peak Associate Oh how the utter bliss from classes seems to have faded since the transition online! No, I'm not talking about the increased difficulty in communication, nor am I talking about the increased workloads and expectations…
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Outsider Tattoo Collective is as clean and comfortable as ever before
July 21, 2020By: Molly Lorette, Peak Associate Before social distancing was in full swing, I was in the process of planning my latest tattoo. I had been working with Outsider Tattoo Collective’s amazingly talented Armony (@hello_wasp on Instagram), who specializes in woodcut-esque…
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Closet Cases: Stories on when we came to terms with our queer identity
June 22, 2020By: Kitty Cheung, Molly Lorette, Victor Yin One of my favourite toys during early childhood was the household mop. My family kept the mop and bucket outside on the balcony of our Strathcona apartment. I would flip this mop upside-down…
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