Author name: Ellen Grace

Why the Orbeez® guy is the best activist of our generation

Orhe’s a jolly good fellow! Last week, TikTok user Cyril @cyrilschr posted several videos which detailed his experiences after filling his bathtub full of Orbeez®. For those of you who don’t know, Orbeez® are little colourful beads that are meant to grow 100 times in size when submerged in water. The videos get increasingly more […]

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The task of mental health

On January 15, 2020, the Final Report of the Presidential & Provostial Task Force on Student Mental Health was released on the Provost’s website, along with a response from the administration, announcing its agreement to comply to all recommendations mentioned in the report.   I learned of this report just like many of my peers—via mass

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Pick a Taylor Swift song to cry to and we’ll tell you which bubble tea you should drink while you cry

“Today Was a Fairytale”: Coffee milk tea, no tapioca, no ice.  You need the caffeine to wake up from this dream you’re living in. Life isn’t that magical, which anyone who has tried coffee milk tea would agree. That shit is nasty.  “New Year’s Day”: Brown sugar milk tea, tapioca, half sugar, less ice.  This drink is a glistening morning after: it looks pretty and

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Pain, unseen

Recalculating my body and my pain  My therapist tells me that when you picture your body in your mind’s eye, everything is not of equal size. The average person will picture their head as much bigger than it is because they spend much more time thinking about their head than the rest of their body.  My perception of my body is

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