Yelin Gemma Lee
Long-awaited Student Union Building has soft opening
September 7, 2021By: Yelin Gemma Lee, News Writer SFSS kicked off the soft-opening week of the Student Union Building (SUB) on August 23 by inviting small groups of people to gather in the ballroom on the top floor. This was followed by a guided tour of the building. The SUB offers space for services such as the SFSS Student Centre, Women’s Centre, and a nap room. It began construction in June 2016, and the building went through multiple delays. It was originally scheduled to open in 2018. The first group to attend the soft-opening participated in Indigenous ceremonial practices led by Elders,…
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Kula Kitchen’s Asha Wheeldon reflects on the importance of sharing resources in a community
June 14, 2021By: Yelin Gemma Lee, Peak Associate Kula Kitchen, an online food service business that offers Afro-centric plant-based foods, has kept me nourished throughout the long semesters of COVID-19. Much more affordable than frequenting the UberEats app, Kula’s nourishing foods were…
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Monday Music: K-bops for what is hopefully the last COVID summer
June 7, 2021By: Yelin Gemma Lee, Peak Associate I have come to the realization that, since the second global rise of K-pop, the general public believes that South Korea only produces generic-sounding, unfathomably good-looking pop groups like Blackpink and BTS. Don’t get…
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Kazuo Ishiguro shares the significance behind his latest book “Klara and the Sun”
March 28, 2021By: Yelin Gemma Lee, Peak Associate Imagine attending an event where the backdrop is a Nobel Laureate’s living room. That’s where I found myself on March 15, 2021, when Penguin Random House hosted a virtual event to celebrate the release…
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SFYou: Beveland-Dalzell siblings
March 27, 2021Written by: Yelin Gemma Lee, Peak Associate Alumni featured: Name: Heidi Stooshnoff/Heidi Beveland-Dalzell (She/her/hers) Departmental Affiliation: Bachelors of Science and Biology (2009); Bachelors of Education, minor in Environmental Sciences (2010); Masters of Education in Educational Practice (2020) Hometown: Coquitlam (traditional…
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Jeff Cooper, creator of “The Mixd Project,” highlights Black-mixed folks’ experiences
March 21, 2021By: Yelin Gemma Lee, Peak Associate On the evening of March 10, Vancouver creative Jeff Cooper gave a virtual presentation called Mixd: The past, the present and the future of Black folks of mixed race. Cooper’s seminar-style presentation connected the…
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Four unique BIPOC businesses to support this holiday season
November 29, 2020By: Yelin Gemma Lee, Peak Associate Mumgry Mumgry is a Black-owned business that sells nutritious and ethically sourced nut butters. Their target audience is moms, and their goal is to take the stress out of nutritional snacks during every stage…
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Art and Defiance: Narratives of Disobedience facilitates important dialogues around rebellious narratives
November 18, 2020By: Yelin Gemma Lee, Peak Associate Editor’s note: Yelin Gemma Lee is involved with the 2020 WLSC as the Director of Communications and Design. The World Languages and Literatures Student Union (WLLSU) presented the 6th annual World Literature Student Conference…
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Itaewon Class stuns international audiences with a powerful message of acceptance
July 26, 2020By: Yelin Gemma Lee, Peak Associate Itaewon Class, a Netflix show based on a webtoon by Jo Kwang Jin, has been steadily gaining popularity since the release of its pilot episode on January 31. I was intrigued to find that…
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5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche draws in the crowd with an immersive production
February 19, 2020by Yelin Gemma Lee, Peak Associate When I first looked up the production 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche in Vancouver, I was immediately skeptical. A play claiming to be about lesbians, written by two masculine-presenting names (Evan Linder and Andrew Hobgood)…
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