There’s a new phenomenon coming to the world, it has nothing to do with style crazes or a new cutting edge drug, it’s something simple and easy to identify, a ring, more specifically a spouse. Yasmeen Hassan and her husband Abdallah Sadig are in the early stages of the rest of their lives. At 20…
Ball for life
It seems that the Kodiaks not only have championship winning players on the girls’ basketball team but a strong contender and big heart in Jinan, a second-year guard from an unsuspecting place with an even more inspiring story. Jinan Daqqa hails from Palestine where she was born, a mere 9,581 km from where she now…
Let us all play a Pronoun Game…
Gloria Steinem, famed feminist author and activist once said in relation to pronouns “The old languages – at least the ones I know – don’t have gender. They don’t have gendered pronouns. There’s no “he” and “she.” A human being is a human being.” In 1950, even just a few years ago, the thought of…
Thank you, Lady Bird
It’s awards season and with awards season comes my favourite night of the year, The Oscars. It’s the one night a year that truly good movies get talked about, watching the Oscars I don’t have to suffer through stories about Marvel Studio movies or listen to my guy friends talk about how Pirates of the…
A community comes together to remember those who’ve been persecuted
“Living life as trans is never easy, we are continually having to defend and justify our own existence.” This quote was taken from a speech by Jayce Wilson, a transgender woman using she/her pronouns who attended Lethbridge’s Transgender day of remembrance on Nov. 20. A day in honour of transgender people from all over the…
Fashion, Up Close
A garment, piece of art or a work of literature can be beautiful from afar, but the details that bring it all together are what really makes the difference between a show stopper and a bargain bin piece of clip art. The canvas weaved onto a board or a sewing pattern as just one piece…
Noun; a sudden feeling of acute and disabling anxiety
“Do you know what it is like, to lie in bed awake; with thoughts to haunt you every night, of all your past mistakes. Knowing sleep will set it right – if you were not to wake.” ― Lang Leav, Love & Misadventure It always starts with the breathing. It gets faster and faster until the sound…
SHE. – Do You(Terus)
You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion. -Hillary Clinton As a female, I’ve seen it all. I’ve been catcalled, poked and prodded, grabbed at in dingy bars and told to smile when I was having a severe allergic reaction. As…
A night in the newsroom
I sit here writing this in a newsroom, an actual newsroom. The lights above me buzz in time with my heartbeat and the collective feeling within the room is one of absolute gold. As a child, you see the beat of a hummingbird’s wings on those nature commercials in between your favorite shows. They’re set…