ARTS
Jazz: A Lesson in Allyship, Expression, and Social Change
This is a time of justified anger, rage, and desperation. Two hundred years of institutionalized slavery, followed by 200 more years of de facto slavery through sharecropping, Jim Crow laws, the War on Drugs, and the prison-industrial complex—all of these have relegated Black communities to the status of second-class citizenship ...
Unsanitized UofT: an introduction letter
Dear kind readers, We are Unsanitized UofT. Our platform represents the manifestation of a community’s need for education and peaceful dialogue surrounding racial injustice against BIPOC and marginalized groups. Galvanized by the Black Lives Matter movement, Unsanitized seeks to provide an outlet for students at UofT to voice their unexpurgated ...
Please, go to a Slam Show
The year is 2020 and I’m worried that we’ve forgotten what poetry sounds like. Our particular artistic epoch’s favoured form is, for lack of a better term, Instagram poetry. A lot has been said about Insta poets which I will not repeat here! But I will say that much of ...
An interview with Samana Sajan
Student and author of I Spoke with the Moon and This Is What She Told Me It’s not every day you meet someone who truly epitomizes what it means to be an artist. Currently double-majoring in English and Religion at UofT, Samana Sajan is also an actress and poet who ...
How sites like Pornhub profit directly from the distribution of child pornography
Holding the online porn industry responsible for its complacency regarding non-consensual sex Sometime in the past six or so years, the world’s largest porn site decided it needed a new image. In September 2014, Pornhub announced that for every one hundred videos watched, it would plant a tree. The internet ...
Review: I Am Not Okay with This
Another look at how we handle what we can’t possibly expect Trigger warning: Mentions of suicide “Dear diary”: the first words of I Am Not Okay with This, the Netflix series based on the Charles Forsman comic. We meet Sydney Novak, or Syd, covered in blood wearing dog tags, the ...
Let’s talk about love, baby!
As Valentine’s Day approaches, the smell of capitalist-curated love intertwines in the air with the a whiff of desperation as couples either try to figure out their V-Day plans or attempt to break up in a nice way so they can stay in bed watching Netflix on the 14th. I genuinely love love and I LOVED making a corny, wholesome, and horny playlist ...
The Best of Love in Media
Wholesome opinions held with sincerity
Distance Makes the Heart Grow Longer (and stronger?)
The positives of long-distance dating
A Review of Hart House’s Legally Blonde: The Musical
There’s something truly special about the right combination of humour, heart, high-energy choreography, whimsical set-design, and a catchy score— – and this is the exact combination Legally Blonde: The Musical so expertly delivers. Based on the popular film, and directed by Saccha Dennis, Hart House’s production of Legally Blonde: The Musical follows everyone’s favourite blonde, Elle Wood’s, as she navigates love, life, and ...