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Content warning: mentions of sexual assault, child sexual abuse, nonconsensual porn, and sex trafficking The Cimmerian darkness of Incognito mode, the insulating presence of earphones, the feverish desperation for a hit of dopamine… an all too familiar description of how most of our nights are spent during this period of ...

Dear Faculty and Students of Victoria College, The murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis law enforcement was yet another example of the dehumanization of Black people in North America. We, the Victoria Black Student Network, have been called upon to reflect and share our thoughts as Black people in Canada, ...

It’s a Sunday in November, and my mom is visiting. I just had one of those weeks where it feels like you’re running from one thing to the next while trying to catch up in every class. Needless to say, I had not gotten a lot of sleep. I did, ...

The Strand is lonely this Valentine’s Day and we want you. Some of us are employees at this godforsaken newspaper just to get a date. If you too are missing out on love this February 14, then check out our cute, sexy, and thrilling masthead below.We are now accepting applications ...

Performative allyship often goes deeper than the surface. So-called allies often label themselves as such but engage in behaviour that supports white supremacy and benefits their own status in the social/racial hierarchy. But cultural appropriation is a surface level kind of racism that can contribute and align itself with the same kind of performative allyship we criticize. It ...

Confronting the reality of UofT

Ralph Lauren and dream-making

Leonard Cohen is back from the dead Hearing Leonard Cohen’s voice—solemn, steady, divine—is like hearing a voice you have always heard, one that you have always known, one that lives in perpetuity. It is this steadfastness that makes his music all the more jarring; it is a reminder that he ...

Learning to celebrate collective healing