Yelin Gemma Lee
L Word: Generation Q is the queer content we’ve been longing for
January 22, 2020by Yelin Gemma Lee, Peak Associate For those of you that don’t know, SHOWTIME’s L Word is a six-season TV show that aired between 2004–09 about the loves and lives of a community of lesbians. The show that critics raved to be “groundbreaking” was the first show of its kind in the way it centered around lesbians and the female gaze. It is still considered iconic and notorious for being a part of many coming out journeys. That being said, the script is cheesy, cliché, melodramatic, and has many documented wrongs in irresponsible discourse towards transgender, bisexual, people of colour, sexual…
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Iron Dog Books marks its territory in a storefront on East Hastings
January 4, 2020By Yelin Gemma Lee, Peak Associate Many of us have seen the charming Iron Dog Books truck parked up at SFU’s Burnaby campus near the bus loop, which serves as an affordable haven for all bookish students looking for an…
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SFYOU: Alumna Yvonne Hanson takes her environmental and humanitarian activism to the federal campaign
October 15, 2019By: Yelin Gemma Lee, Peak Associate Name: Yvonne Hanson Pronouns: She/her/hers Department Affiliation: BA, Political Science Hometown: Squamish, BC Occupation: NDP candidate for Vancouver-Granville, portrait photographer, customer service worker at a garden store. Only one year after graduating with her…
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100 Braid St Studios: an interview with founder Susan L. Greig
July 14, 2019By: Yelin Gemma Lee, Peak Associate On June 8, Susan L. Greig (Métis), the founder and owner of 100 Braid St. Studios, celebrated the gallery’s triumphant five-year anniversary. 100 Braid St. is a mixed gallery, studio, and private rental space.…
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Compagnie Marie Chouinard captivates Vancouver Playhouse with Hieronymus Bosch: The Garden of Earthly Delights
March 23, 2019By: Yelin Gemma Lee, Peak Associate Hieronymus Bosch’s surrealist triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights has been marvelled at for its imaginative details. With Compagnie Marie Chouinard’s choreography, it lets the public experience the spirit of the painting through a…
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The Amish Project sheds light on the power of radical forgiveness
March 2, 2019By: Yelin Gemma Lee The Amish Project is a play that takes on the difficult and often controversial of being an art piece about a criminal of the the Nickel Mines shooting. While fictional, it is a deeply moving…
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Sex Education breaks through the taboo around teenage sex but falls to overplayed clichés
February 17, 2019By: Yelin Gemma Lee Sex Education is a nitty-gritty, in-depth exploration of high schoolers’ sex lives, fully loaded with awkwardness, charming characters, and physical comedy. The new British Netflix show follows Otis, a sexually inexperienced outcast in school whose…
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Cringe Court: The Emo Years
February 12, 2019By: Yelin Gemma Lee, Peak Associate Cringe Court Transcript: Judge: Alright, now that the Jury has been sworn in, we can move on to the questions. You are being charged with illegal associations with early 2000s emo culture — how…
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Queer female music artists you need to know
February 2, 2019By: Kitty Cheung, Beatriz Fernandes, Yelin Gemma Lee, and Winona Young Rina Sawayama [caption id="attachment_108469" align="alignleft" width="200"] Image courtesy of Damien Fry[/caption] Must-know tracks: “Take Me As I Am” “Cherry” “10-20-40" She’s a former model, she’s a current fan of Kingdom…
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Queer culture should be more than just parties
February 2, 2019Written by: Yelin Gemma Lee, Peak Associate Vancouver’s LGBTQ21A+ community has been fighting for its unified presence for a long time, and now it is considered one of the most LGBTQ21A+-friendly cities in Canada. Although while event organizers like Flygirl Productions,…
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