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- [Mirror Image](https://thestrand.ca/mirror-image/): Though I falter at your touch, I nonetheless remember:What is brightness without the shadow that follows it, forlorn and shakingfrostbite nipping at its limbs?Opposites attract,yet no one speaks of two shadowswrapped around one another.No one speaks of two burning candles,crumbling towards one another—burning so bright they scorch the sun. What can be said of two crows hidden amongst
- [Saw Trick](https://thestrand.ca/saw-trick/): Tonight’s trick won’t surprise you It’s been over a century since she’s made her debut. Aquarium-like glass pens, many have tried to peer through and uncover the conspicuous secret. Forever the assistant, she holds the props, waiting for the cue to enter the box. She is split in two with bloodless violence— all the while,
- [Mentally, I’m in a visual novel](https://thestrand.ca/mentally-im-in-a-visual-novel/): Breaking the ordinary of dating simulators Content warnings: mental illness, murder Visual novels, especially dating sims, have been stereotyped to death. There is very much a formula that most games will follow: introduction, individual romance, epilogue. These games are built around two things: world and dialogue. If one fails, the other is weak. What makes
- [The love of the thrill](https://thestrand.ca/the-love-of-the-thrill/): An exploration of crime literature To turn the page and discover new facts, expose a new suspect, uncover a betrayal, and to find a shock no one saw coming are what gives mystery and crime literature its thrill and fame. Crime literature refers to works of fiction that revolve around a mystery—a suspicious death, disappearance,
- [A Rebours and the charm of Bladee](https://thestrand.ca/a-rebours-and-the-charm-of-bladee/): I spent my summer reading A Rebours by Joris-Karl Huysmans, a story about a frail young misanthrope named Des Esseintes living in 19th-century Paris who moves to the countryside and focuses all of his energy on turning his house into an artificial paradise. Shunning all contact with the outside world, he becomes a monk for
- [Trinity College Dramatic Society’s Urinetown sets the standard for campus theater](https://thestrand.ca/trinity-college-dramatic-societys-urinetown-sets-the-standard-for-campus-theater/): Resistance, queerness, and performance perfection It’s only September, and Urinetown at the Theatre Pass Murielle has already given every other campus production a run for the Dougies. This TCDS production about Bobby Strong’s rebellion against the rising pee-tax made audiences cackle, cry, and think every night. As a long-time Urinetown fan, director Anusha Ramesh’s take
- [Fruit proves Descartes right](https://thestrand.ca/fruit-proves-descartes-right/): Chicago chef’s use of a strawberry and tomato exhibit René Descartes’ deceptive senses Strawberries that taste like tomatoes? Floating apple-flavoured balloons made of sugar? While these may sound like Willy Wonka creations, they can be found at Alinea, a small restaurant in Lincoln Park, Chicago. “Why do you have to eat with a fork or
- [A Necker cube explained by two stimuli](https://thestrand.ca/a-necker-cube-explained-by-two-stimuli/): A guide to detecting visual illusions and deceptive cues To the readers, please note that having an experience related to the one described does not suggest any visual defect; rest assured your vision is normal. Do not approach these illusions as a test of sight. Often, we describe illusions as the incursion of a metaphysical
- [Your grandma wants (needs) you to find a girlfriend](https://thestrand.ca/your-grandma-wants-needs-you-to-find-a-girlfriend/): Why the love of a grandmother can be more self-serving than it seems My grandmother loves me. I hope yours does too (I really do). Apparently, this is how it is supposed to be. We don’t get urges to kill our families. Quite the opposite; we cooperate and stick together. The older generations take care
- [A note from the editor](https://thestrand.ca/a-note-from-the-editor/): Veiling verity: on AI and journalism One of the many joys of working in academia and journalism is the opportunity it provides its students to contribute to the authentic and original ideas, which are produced by a diverse collection of authors and researchers who came before. We build off of their life’s work to find
- [Like a “real” girl](https://thestrand.ca/like-a-real-girl/): A sociological understanding of how AI adopts and reproduces oppressive, traditionally ‘feminine’ gender roles. The relationship between gender and artificial intelligence grows increasingly complex. Many are familiar with deepfakes (media created by AI tools that depict women and girls without their consent—a form of technology-facilitated gender-based violence). However, not all AI-based subjugation of women is
- [You are your own voyeur](https://thestrand.ca/you-are-your-own-voyeur/): The paradox of male performativity I recently got into a tiff with a friend of mine about the pink heart stickers he had stuck onto his shoes. “I feel like women will like it,” he joked at the time, after I had given him the leftovers of my unwanted crafting materials. I was on the
- [Domestically manufactured fallacies](https://thestrand.ca/domestically-manufactured-fallacies/): For a social and political power so constantly exploited by the United States as language, even the current administration demonstrates its limits. Traditionally, the guiding principle of conservatism is to uphold the status quo;and yet the second Trump administration prefers to tear its institutions and alliances down. Their efforts to revive a post-WWII world are
- [My information? Public. My second job? Unacquired.](https://thestrand.ca/my-information-public-my-second-job-unacquired/): A tale of two shitties. Yep, we’ve all been there, coming across a scam. Given that I constantly point out any clickbait or AI-generated reels my grandparents show me, I hoped that I was knowledgeable enough not to fall for them. But this time was different. I’m not one to put myself out there. I
- [The settlers win when the Earth stops breathing](https://thestrand.ca/the-settlers-win-when-the-earth-stops-breathing/): Modern science fiction by African-American authors show an imagined, vitalized Earth that thoroughly disrupts colonial narratives. In my early encounters with water, I met it as it is: living and pulsing, playful, moving in ancient patterns, shaping itself with and against its containers, flooding, pushing, and holding. Water had its own sensations and textures. It
- [Cuddling with a chatbot and its consequences](https://thestrand.ca/cuddling-with-a-chatbot-and-its-consequences/): In a decade where we are more socially isolated than ever, the allure of intimacy presented by artificial intelligence has only fragmented us further The only time I have used AI was when it was mandated for a high school writer’s craft course. My relationship to ChatGPT consisted primarily of anger towards a machine unable
- [Linger](https://thestrand.ca/linger/): Facades of impermanence The world tries to sell you a certain idea of temporality. Your access to everything is temporary; it only lasts as long as you are able to pay the subscription fee. Your playlists, your movies, your gym membership. The impermanence of it all lingers somewhere, reminding you that it can all be
- [What is the Future of Education?](https://thestrand.ca/what-is-the-future-of-education/): The University of Toronto refuses to invest in meaningful social change There is a serious ideological battle lurking in the shadows at the University of Toronto. For the past three years, the Buddhism, Psychology, and Mental Health (BPMH) program has been embroiled in an administrative war of attrition that has forced the program’s plight to
- [The Name of the Game](https://thestrand.ca/the-name-of-the-game/): A Historical Analysis of Trump’s Recent Renaming Spree News outlets and magazines must love Donald J. Trump. It seems like every day there is another baffling headline to be made. As a bonus, there’s no need to come up with attention-grabbing titles; the rage bait is built into the story! And Trump’s latest executive order
- [The Costs of Bill 98](https://thestrand.ca/the-costs-of-bill-98/): The future of the TTC and commuting in the GTA In March 2026, Premier Doug Ford introduced Bill 98—a bill intended to build housing and change how transit is delivered across Ontario. On June 2, 2026, the bill officially received royal assent, making it an active law. Bill 98’s focus on transit has raised many
- [Clashing formats](https://thestrand.ca/clashing-formats/): The failures of the Hadestown proshot
- [The UK’s continuing odyssey of political chaos](https://thestrand.ca/the-uks-continuing-odyssey-of-political-chaos/): Seven prime ministers in ten years explained through economics
- [Loyalty, thy name is woman!](https://thestrand.ca/loyalty-thy-name-is-woman/): Tell him, O Muses, of how I toiled and longed for thousands of days. Awaiting a battered figure, a king I forget was crowned. Over the sea, I cast an empty gaze. Stories travel across the land about islands of innocents set ablaze. My son grows into something familiar, rising to the Dawn
- [Sucking the marrow of life](https://thestrand.ca/sucking-the-marrow-of-life/): “These forgetful spirits hope for resurrection / into bodies. They start to want to see the sky.” - The Aeneid, Vergil, trans. Shadi Bartsch It is a well-known, undisputed, oft-discussed fact that it is easy to die at the University of Toronto. When each exam season draws near, you can feel the gloomy wisps of
- [Epic poem or epic fail?](https://thestrand.ca/epic-poem-or-epic-fail/): Does reading the text of Homer's epic really help us Ody-See more clearly? Sing to me muse, of a buy-one-get-one-free hardcover book deal. Bookstore sales of The Odyssey have skyrocketed recently; overall annual print sales of Homer's epic have increased by 76% in the United States. Sales for copies of The Odyssey, along with its
- [You’re…Odysseus?](https://thestrand.ca/youreodysseus/): Excerpts from an alternate ending to The Odyssey—found in a trailer, buried under SparkNotes sheets and Cheeto dust
- [Q & A outside Cineplex: The Odyssey](https://thestrand.ca/q-a-outside-cineplex-the-odyssey/): A professor and a student walk out of a movie theater
- [A commuter’s epic](https://thestrand.ca/a-commuters-epic/): To those who take an odyssey, five days a week
- [Beginning of a Child](https://thestrand.ca/beginning-of-a-child/): Sing to me, oh Museof a child so cherishedin her world set to perish,Hades’ eyes dark and bruised. He watches, weeping,ignoring the manwho stands still on black sand,her eyes closed, sleeping. Iron tears from a lyre sung —a lonely breatha time to come —shed for her, who has lost her sun. Her skin stays warmin her mother’s cooling
- [Calliope and the Sirens](https://thestrand.ca/calliope-and-the-sirens/): Calliope Voice like a salved bruise, I sing atop the heavens, Chanting a sweet breeze Agalope Echoing the western sea, The victor of song mocks me Leucosia This golden goddess This winged sage to brave men, This pure counsellor, Ligeia Recites tales of our defeat, Voyagers breaking our siege Calliope Avert the poison,
- [Did The Odyssey really need to happen?](https://thestrand.ca/did-the-odyssey-really-need-to-happen/): The value of sequels today and in BCE
- [Nolan's odyssey: a trojan horse of epic proportions](https://thestrand.ca/nolans-odyssey-a-trojan-horse-of-epic-proportions/): Why the film adaptation’s “real-world” approach is an epic failure
- [On the odysseys across the Serengeti](https://thestrand.ca/on-the-odysseys-across-the-serengeti/): A story of survival for Thomson’s gazelles Across the savannah, animals seasonally engage in a long migration journey across the 30 000 km stretch of Tanzania and southwestern Kenya known as the Serengeti and the Masai Mara. Gazelles, wildebeests, and zebras represent what remains from a dwindling migratory species population. Animals like Thomson’s gazelles are
- [Tripping into a psychedelic state of mind](https://thestrand.ca/tripping-into-a-psychedelic-state-of-mind/): A new Royal Ontario Museum exhibition unites diverse perspectives on the scientific and cultural odyssey of psychedelics My curiosity with magic mushrooms and the ‘psychedelic experience’ (I would like to preface this by pointing out that there is no universal or even expected experience that acts as a proper reference point) really began after I
- [A home on fire](https://thestrand.ca/a-home-on-fire/): You could say Homer’s The Odyssey is a story of human might; of conjuring the will to brave the most monstrous of obstacles, the most savage of storms. Or you could say it is a love story, that at its heart is Odysseus’ longing for Penelope, his desire to return to her. But one thing
- [Avant tout, soyons canadiens](https://thestrand.ca/avant-tout-soyons-canadiens/): The odyssey of the Franco-Canadian identity Over the course of the past month I spent overseas, and especially upon returning home to my small Canadian hometown, I’ve been contemplating what exactly the intersection of my Franco-Canadian heritage means. As a child growing up in the French school system, I was rooted in strong traditions of
- [Will guilt ridden men always save the day?](https://thestrand.ca/will-guilt-ridden-men-always-save-the-day/): The Odyssey + Oppenheimer: a comparison What do two of Christopher Nolan’s most recent films, The Odyssey and Oppenheimer, have in common? Aside from Nolan’s directorial goal of making the loudest movie possible, both films seem to revolve around the male protagonist inflicting unprecedented amounts of violence before eventually being absolved by his guilt, while
- [HELP! I’m a robo-zombie](https://thestrand.ca/help-im-a-robo-zombie/): EAT. MORE. PHONE. It was a dimly lit street lined with cobblestones and bustling with handsome, linen-clad men. As they usually are in Europe. “Let’s go in here,” my friend Ellé said. We met the lively bar eagerly, vines protruding across the ceiling edges, and in the corner of my eye sterile lighting teased the
- [Did you want me for my looks, or my voice?](https://thestrand.ca/did-you-want-me-for-my-looks-or-my-voice/): Marginalized people have a unique perspective primed for storytelling. Why are they still accessories for the ones white people already tell? What do we want from stories: originality or universal themes? Paradoxically, audiences seem to want both at once, and impressively, sometimes storytellers manage to deliver. Severance, for example, is widely praised as fresh and
- [We cannot return to Ithaca](https://thestrand.ca/we-cannot-return-to-ithaca/): Homer’s Odyssey/and the quest for ‘normal’ at the end of the world In case you haven’t noticed, the /Odyssey/ has been rather prominent in the zeitgeist lately. From TikTok musicals to Hollywood blockbusters, this nearly-three-thousand-year old epic has gripped the imagination of the twenty-first century. What about this story makes it so irresistible? Maybe it’s
- [The president’s odyssey: navigating the future of education](https://thestrand.ca/the-presidents-odyssey-navigating-the-future-of-education/): Interim president William Robins shares his vision for Vic’s next great chapter and the personal journey that shaped his leadership The 2026-27 academic year marks a significant moment for Victoria University as Dr. Rhonda McEwen concludes her tenure as president, transitioning to the University of Victoria in British Columbia. Stepping into the role of interim
- [The smoke that drifts from Polyphemus](https://thestrand.ca/the-smoke-that-drifts-from-polyphemus/): Ontario wildfires and forms of resistance to Bill 5 This July, Torontonians woke up to a dystopian view outside of their apartment windows; orange, hazy skies held thick smoke over the city skyline. Headlines on phones and computers read that “Toronto’s air quality has ranked the worst among all major cities in the world.” Environment
- [Bring us back home](https://thestrand.ca/bring-us-back-home/): Chinese artefacts and repatriation in Britain and Canada
- [Home is where the art is](https://thestrand.ca/home-is-where-the-art-is/): The argument for museological repatriation
- [Abeunt studia in mores](https://thestrand.ca/abeunt-studia-in-mores/): Is Vic's motto relic or reality?
- [It’s alive!!](https://thestrand.ca/its-alive/): Our humanness commodified in our obsession with ‘vintage’
- [Artefacts of absence](https://thestrand.ca/artefacts-of-absence/): Zagreb’s museum of broken relationships
- [Determined dancers, passionate singers, and zombified actors at Vic](https://thestrand.ca/determined-dancers-passionate-singers-and-zombified-actors-at-vic/): How Victoria College’s performance arts clubs celebrated culture in an era of social distancing
- [Wastelands of American interventionism](https://thestrand.ca/wastelands-of-american-interventionism/): The consequences of forcing regime change
- [Mirages of the self](https://thestrand.ca/mirages-of-the-self/): Isolation, wandering, and the solitary quest in American wasteland cinema
- [Lunchbox for the apocalypse](https://thestrand.ca/lunchbox-for-the-apocalypse/): Picture this: the world, in all of its peculiar glory, decides to end tomorrow. Imagine that this sudden apocalypse came with the token doomsday tragedies—barren, withering farmlands, desiccated fisheries, ration lines sprawling on and on and on. Imagine, somehow, that you survive. Over time, though, a question remains: What food will survive with you? Supply
- [Alone in the wasteland](https://thestrand.ca/alone-in-the-wasteland/): Everyone is dead. You are born completely alone. Would you feel lonely? At first, the answer seems obvious. Probably not. Loneliness usually feels like being cut off from other people, and if you have never known other people, then what exactly would you be missing? You would have nothing to compare your life to. No
- [On Losing the God Complex](https://thestrand.ca/on-losing-the-god-complex/): And then, forgetting it for good
- [Don’t waste your assets](https://thestrand.ca/dont-waste-your-assets/): Final remarks
- [Top ten DILFs in science](https://thestrand.ca/top-ten-dilfs-in-science/): Find it hard choosing between beauty and intelligence? Many great scientists have been blessed with both! Let's explore the daddiest scientists out there (Einstein not included, sorry).
- [The best places on campus to survive a nuclear war](https://thestrand.ca/the-best-places-on-campus-to-survive-a-nuclear-war/): An unfortunately-prescient guide to UofT’s best fallout shelters
- [Rating UofT toilets](https://thestrand.ca/rating-uoft-toilets/): The best and worst places for your waste to land
- [Death by UofTears](https://thestrand.ca/death-by-uoftears/): A student rewrite of The Wasteland’s “IV. Death by Water”
- [Should humanity colonise space?](https://thestrand.ca/should-humanity-colonise-space/): As space settlement becomes plausible, we must ask whether leaving Earth is a necessity or an irreversible mistake.
- [VI. UNREAL CITY MMXXV](https://thestrand.ca/vi-unreal-city-mmxxv/): The skyline is sharp and jagged So when smog slaps it, Rain bleeds, thick and oily and hesitant when Every clock broke last week in Lundentūn; This went unnoticed by all except the fellow too bored to kill himself. Omnispasmodic forgot where he was going – (Where was he going?) The destination is of little
- [LVX ÆTERNA](https://thestrand.ca/lvx-aeterna/): Waterboard at seven, Legacy parkade at eleven; she reclined in her seat, black plastic smoked to crystal, and with hand like pale candelabra reached for my arm under the gridded flicker. ‘You haven’t talked to me all day.’ ‘I’ll be leaving to-morrow. ‘Perhaps I could——’
- [Anthropocene](https://thestrand.ca/anthropocene/): Oh my love, there is ruin That I have dipped my toes in A polluted connection An exploitative relation No matter how much I do I can never untouch you Pure water mixes with oil Estranged from truth, taught to revel in constant toil Product foundational over quality To be loved is to be a
- [VUSAC year-end review](https://thestrand.ca/vusac-year-end-review/): As the academic year comes to an end, the current VUSAC Council is wrapping up their terms and beginning the transition process for newly elected members. The Strand takes a look at VUSAC’s activities this year, changes implemented, and concerns faced. Equity and Food Security VUSAC addressed equity concerns through some engagement with administrators and
- [Neoliberal Academia: The Death of Morality at UofT](https://thestrand.ca/neoliberal-academia-the-death-of-morality-at-uoft/): Neoliberal academia has quietly yet increasingly undermined UofT’s moral principles
- [We cannot kill "What’s Killing the Poets?"](https://thestrand.ca/we-cannot-kill-whats-killing-the-poets/): "What’s Killing the Poets?" may not have qualified for any awards, but it won the audience Dramafest
- [Ford withholds affection (OSAP funding)](https://thestrand.ca/ford-withholds-affection-osap-funding/): The Ford government’s recent announcements regarding post-secondary funding have drawn criticism from students, unions, and experts. The changes announced are: an end to the 2019 tuition freeze, a $6.4 billion investment in higher education, and making OSAP a primarily loans-based program. The investment has been called “a step in the right direction” by the Canadian
- [Actually, my filthy dorm room is a museum](https://thestrand.ca/actually-my-filthy-dorm-room-is-a-museum/): Welcome to the museum. Gloves will be provided upon entry.
- [The ignominy of the UofT merch store](https://thestrand.ca/the-ignominy-of-the-uoft-merch-store/): Why we may want to tone our demand for university artefacts down a little.
- [Space junk](https://thestrand.ca/space-junk/): Artefacts in orbit
- [Artefacts of Science](https://thestrand.ca/artefacts-of-science/): How chance encounters with the physical world set innovation in motion.
- [Fucker dance](https://thestrand.ca/fucker-dance/): Motivations can be understood as they manifest in the reactions to each moment, everyone is coming together in the Now—this cannot be transcended as it is the truth of the condition, of the condition’s form (1). If you are unreactive to the Now you can look at it better while it's happening (2). From chaos
- [Memes as the artefacts of our ignorance](https://thestrand.ca/memes-as-the-artefacts-of-our-ignorance/): Social media and political propaganda
- [Winter 2026 Caucus report](https://thestrand.ca/winter-2026-caucus-report/): Transparency, wellness, and finances discussed
- [Lenses of identity](https://thestrand.ca/lenses-of-identity/): Exploring cameras as artefacts of memory and self
- [Art is power. Power is art.](https://thestrand.ca/art-is-power-power-is-art/): Investigating the relationship between cultural sovereignty and Congolese emancipation
- [The university speaks](https://thestrand.ca/the-university-speaks/): Brian Soucek’s newest book addresses universities’ most pressing questions on academic freedom
- [Worm Porn](https://thestrand.ca/worm-porn/): Squirm…Squirm…
- [To suck or not to suck](https://thestrand.ca/to-suck-or-not-to-suck/): Ye Olde Bard weighs in on fellatio
- [A toast to all the heartless poets](https://thestrand.ca/a-toast-to-all-the-heartless-poets/): Here’s a toast to all the heartless poets
- [The Roman head](https://thestrand.ca/the-roman-head/): Perfect. // The golden light outlining the features of the statue’s simple face, // capturing my attention every time I visit. // Should I come by more often?
- [Love in the time of dating apps](https://thestrand.ca/love-in-the-time-of-dating-apps/): Though they are ubiquitous in the twenty-first century dating scene, dating apps have commodified love
- [How to sext without sounding like Adam Levine](https://thestrand.ca/how-to-sext-without-sounding-like-adam-levine/): On mitigating the inherent cringe of erotic prose
- [Transgender fish?](https://thestrand.ca/transgender-fish/): Changing sex in the animal kingdom
- [Love: mechanism and meaning](https://thestrand.ca/love-mechanism-and-meaning/): What neuroscience explains—and what it cannot
- [Utterance](https://thestrand.ca/utterance/): The first time I saw you, you still had your dark hair.
- [Lungs](https://thestrand.ca/lungs/): Oh great love, \ you, great mold that grows in my lungs, \ sporing and sparring for sparse air. \ Everything we are we inhale.
- [Is having a boyfriend really embarrassing?](https://thestrand.ca/is-having-a-boyfriend-really-embarrassing/): The conflict between fantasy and reality
- [In defense of terrible sex](https://thestrand.ca/in-defense-of-terrible-sex/): Sexual shame, dissatisfaction, and the quest for enjoyable sex
- [Death and Devotion](https://thestrand.ca/death-and-devotion/): “And to not know what the next moment will bring… brings you closer to a perception of death. You see, that's why I think that people have affairs. [...] You can really feel that you're on firm ground, you know. There's a sexual conquest to be made. There are different questions. Does she enjoy the
- [The word known to all men](https://thestrand.ca/the-word-known-to-all-men/): Love in the negative space
- [“It’s, Like, Primal, [and Really Not] Sexual”: Against Romanticizing the Violence of Wuthering Heights](https://thestrand.ca/its-like-primal-and-really-not-sexual-against-romanticizing-the-violence-of-wuthering-heights/): Opposing Emerald Fennell's attempt to rebrand a story of psychological and physical abuse as “the greatest love story of all time”
- [What ought we to forget?](https://thestrand.ca/what-ought-we-to-forget/): Dorothea Lasky’s new essay collection questions how we ought to remember ourselves
- [The Art of Autofiction](https://thestrand.ca/the-art-of-autofiction/): The fine line between creativity and reality
- [Paternal Politics](https://thestrand.ca/paternal-politics/): The danger of romanticizing political figures
- [Blood on Blood](https://thestrand.ca/blood-on-blood/): How Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere manifests childhood trauma
- [The Pull of Power](https://thestrand.ca/the-pull-of-power/): Power does weird things to the human brain, and honestly, so do midterms.
- [Does my friend have a kinky relationship with an older man?](https://thestrand.ca/does-my-friend-have-a-kinky-relationship-with-an-older-man/): Or is she just Catholic?
- [Against the word ‘daddy’](https://thestrand.ca/against-the-word-daddy/): An elegy for a term made unusable by the Internet.
- [Real isn’t an adjective](https://thestrand.ca/real-isnt-an-adjective/): he hates poems // well // i do too
- [Promises extended](https://thestrand.ca/promises-extended/): The smoke sticks all over and lingers. // I’m suddenly afraid of man and his promise, // for it smells like a cigarette.
- [Grandma](https://thestrand.ca/grandma/): lie when you're tired, // lie when you’re brave, // such a great shame, // such easy handles.
- [Aftershocks](https://thestrand.ca/aftershocks/): A thunderclap never truly dies, instead // It bores itself deep into places unseen;
- [Nerds and Turds](https://thestrand.ca/carbonara-pasta-incapacitates-500-hackers-and-8-washrooms-at-uofthacks-13/): On January 16, 2026, more than 500 students from over 30 academic institutions assembled in Toronto for the 13th iteration of UofTHacks, Canada’s first student-run hackathon. They were welcomed by an elegant pasta dinner. Shortly afterwards, the building fell into an eerie calm. Mentors arriving post-meal were observed standing idly, with no technical questions nor
- [Thirst drinking saltwater](https://thestrand.ca/thirst-drinking-saltwater/): It begins with the word, of the mouth that shaped it, the breath that cups it, and the body that makes it I was a pile of flesh that refreshes itself every 10 years goes on living, building a dam, for the rain that beats my body all night on the parts that hurt, that
- [Four fun facts about snakes](https://thestrand.ca/four-fun-facts-about-snakes/): Deep in the coal mines of La Guajira, Colombia, students unearthed a skeleton of epic proportions. The gigantic fossils were initially thought to belong to a crocodilian. They were wrong. The fossils were the remnants of a snake—the largest snake to ever inhabit this earth: titanoboa. Estimated to be 42 to 43 feet long, the
- [New faces in old places](https://thestrand.ca/new-faces-in-old-places/): “In the same way that the heart does not care which life it beats for, the city does not care who fulfils its various functions. When everyone who moves around the city today is dead, in a hundred and fifty years, say, the sound of people’s comings and goings, following the same old patterns, will
- [HeLa cells](https://thestrand.ca/hela-cells/): Medical advancement, ethical misstep, or both?
- [Plasmids](https://thestrand.ca/plasmids/): The flexible backbone of molecular biology
- [Reduce, reuse, rebirth](https://thestrand.ca/reduce-reuse-rebirth/): The only thing that stays consistent with our rebrands is our obsession with material consumption
- [Fighting fire with no water](https://thestrand.ca/fighting-fire-with-no-water/): Recent events raise concerns of safety and transparency
- [The Ouroboros within: stem cells](https://thestrand.ca/the-ouroboros-within-stem-cells/): The biology of self-sustaining systems
- [The ouroboros of nostalgia](https://thestrand.ca/the-ouroboros-of-nostalgia/): The 2016 trend is everywhere on social media, but the discussion surrounding the year has a major oversight.
- [Review: VCDS’s Metamorphoses](https://thestrand.ca/review-vcdss-metamorphoses/): How, through tragedy, Metamorphoses teaches its audience to love
- [Western nations extend symbolic gesture of recognition to Palestinians](https://thestrand.ca/western-nations-extend-symbolic-gesture-of-recognition-to-palestinians/): Deviation from US stance still reinforces Western-centrism In late September, Canada joined a host of European and North American nations in announcing their decision to recognise Palestine as a sovereign nation. In an effort led by French President Emmanuel Macron, these countries reiterated their support for a two-state solution and underlined the need to take
- [The real deal*](https://thestrand.ca/the-real-deal/): *Concept subject to collapse in an ouroboros spacetime – but it’s not the end of the world
- [Cannibal capitalism](https://thestrand.ca/cannibal-capitalism/): How does capitalism eat itself to death?
- [Oraphim](https://thestrand.ca/oraphim/): The sun bursts from displacement – Entropy begins. Allow it. Rings of rings of of rings of of rings of of eyes ablaze; interlocking. Thousands of pupils on an ever-spinning carousel, blessed with voluntary cataracts that hit only when they look into my own; (what is about to happen is of no in
- [This is not a secret](https://thestrand.ca/this-is-not-a-secret/): I call it a mercy— my buried pretense, my unspoken lie, but a guilty conscience is a gunshot wound— it never really heals. It’s not a secret if the truth would break her, so I let the bullet lodge inside my ribs, rusting– latent, lethal, it waits. It’s not a secret. I wrap her in
- [I'm forced to do my chemistry lab for eternity](https://thestrand.ca/im-forced-to-do-my-chemistry-lab-for-eternity/): It’s Groundhog Day but with titrations
- [An Unravelling Global Order](https://thestrand.ca/an-unravelling-global-order/): The Venezuelan oil conflict and American interventionism
- [On modern art, or the need for the physical](https://thestrand.ca/on-modern-art-or-the-need-for-the-physical/): A case for modern art as resistance to modernity
- [A lesson in obsession](https://thestrand.ca/a-lesson-in-obsession/): The Vic Alumni Reading Series featuring Alex Pugsley
- [Simulacra and stimulation](https://thestrand.ca/simulacra-and-stimulation/): It’s a two syllable word that is everywhere and nowhere at once. Taboo—easy to miss, yet glaringly obvious. But what does it mean today with the commodification of art? In 2024, A24 released the movie Babygirl, which is about a powerful CEO who engages in a BDSM relationship with her much younger male intern. In
- [Ross et al.](https://thestrand.ca/ross-et-al/): The fathers of The Strand
- [Is chivalry unfeminist?](https://thestrand.ca/is-chivalry-unfeminist/): On the infantilisation of women in heterosexual constructs of romance
- [Fathering philosophy](https://thestrand.ca/fathering-philosophy/): The patriarchy of reason as we know it
- [What’s daddy up to?](https://thestrand.ca/whats-daddy-up-to/): What has Carney’s government actually accomplished thus far?
- [Caucus concerns: accessibility, Ryerson’s portrait, and the Coburn Award](https://thestrand.ca/caucus-concerns-accessibility-ryersons-portrait-and-the-coburn-award/): The Fall 2025 caucus meeting report
- [To all the roommates I loved before](https://thestrand.ca/to-all-the-roommates-i-loved-before/): You browse the shelves at Indigo, perusing the romance section for another enemies-to-lovers book to spice up your life. But you want something new…something exciting. You pick up a book titled The Roommate, already auto-filling the story in your head before you’ve even read the summary on the sleeve. Through some awful twist of circumstances,
- [Phil Ochs: The forgotten voice of protest folk](https://thestrand.ca/phil-ochs-the-forgotten-voice-of-protest-folk/): I can’t stop thinking about the 60s. Today’s world events seem like a strange, disjointed sequel to the events of that time – of protest movements and backlash, of crimes against humanity and their sponsors, of political repression and blacklisting. One voice from that time keeps coming back to me: Phil Ochs, a largely forgotten
- [Autumn is a ritual](https://thestrand.ca/autumn-is-a-ritual/): Found families and the romance of academia
- [8 things to never ask your Amazon Echo](https://thestrand.ca/8-things-to-never-ask-your-amazon-echo/): Because some things are better left unsaid
- [Echoes of The Strand](https://thestrand.ca/echoes-of-the-strand/): Some interesting historical forerunners to your favourite Strand sections
- [The joys of the echo chamber](https://thestrand.ca/the-joys-of-the-echo-chamber/): Everyone agreeing with each other is fun, actually.
- [Do you hear that?](https://thestrand.ca/do-you-hear-that/): Our words reverberate,But I can’t remember what was said.Four years passed us by –Now as I walk past the same buildings,See the spots where we lingered,The trees are growing older, but the food trucks are the same. I hear a faint whisper,Like music in my ears.When we talked of nothing,It still meant something –Something that
- [Homeward bound (a Glosa)](https://thestrand.ca/homeward-bound-a-glosa/): The familiar voice that bids mego to an unknown mountainpierces my heart but stays the knifein a trembling hand.The deed’s undone,yet the unspeakable lingers —Excerpt of Estrangement, James L. Crenshaw And from on high, I feel it.A pitch that rends my eardrumsChafes me raw, until the silence renders me whole again,No longer overflowing, as I
- [Under trees](https://thestrand.ca/under-trees/): solitude among giantshow it feelsto know that i inhale their exhalationsand that they do the samethat as we both respiratewe are conspiringconnecting anthropic and organic crest it’s a strange homea mystical divideroots to canopyseparating landscapes ofurban and ruralthe planes of my mindfinally at rest every moment under trees,every breath,preciousalthough infinitesimal.smaller still to these creaturesrooted to
- [Echoing silence](https://thestrand.ca/echoing-silence/): The science of the bystander effect
- [Where fluorescence microscopy cannot reach](https://thestrand.ca/where-fluorescence-microscopy-cannot-reach/): Raman spectroscopy is the new black
- [Why scrolling reels is exhausting](https://thestrand.ca/why-scrolling-reels-is-exhausting/): A cognitive-resource inspired take on the dopamine reward system for fast and complex media
- [You can lead a horse to water, but can you make it drink?](https://thestrand.ca/you-can-lead-a-horse-to-water-but-can-you-make-it-drink/): Wild horses couldn’t drag you away from these amazing tips.
- [The affliction of imitation](https://thestrand.ca/the-affliction-of-imitation/): ἠχώ, ἠχώ, ἠχώ…
- [French the martyr, French the soldier](https://thestrand.ca/french-the-martyr-french-the-soldier/): A French-Canadian case against an independent Quebec (for now)
- [Hitting mute on the metropolis](https://thestrand.ca/hitting-mute-on-the-metropolis/): When noise becomes the norm
- [More jail! No bail!](https://thestrand.ca/more-jail-no-bail/): Is less bail the answer?
- [Auditor General’s report on SDF fuels corruption allegations](https://thestrand.ca/auditor-generals-report-on-sdf-fuels-corruption-allegations/): Skills Development Fund selection criteria is biased and unregulated
- [Week of Rage for Palestine](https://thestrand.ca/week-of-rage-for-palestine/): Activism, backlash, and ceasefire
- [Tales of the megalodon](https://thestrand.ca/tales-of-the-megalodon/): Could the monster shark still live?
- [Lies I’m going to tell my children](https://thestrand.ca/lies-im-going-to-tell-my-children/): Because sometimes the truth is too hard to explain
- [Max’s tangentially-related music corner](https://thestrand.ca/maxs-tangentially-related-music-corner/): A not-exactly-thematic overview of some of the year’s most intriguing releases.
- [Milk comes when the bell rings](https://thestrand.ca/milk-comes-when-the-bell-rings/): The lives of 83 Robinson St.
- [Dear Aurora](https://thestrand.ca/dear-aurora/): My child, I blessed you with beauty...
- [Grandma was wrong (this time)](https://thestrand.ca/grandma-was-wrong-this-time/): The truth behind these common old wives' tales
- [The prion](https://thestrand.ca/the-prion/): An immortal pathogen
- [Living in a fantasy](https://thestrand.ca/living-in-a-fantasy/): “Playing house” in the ROM’s European exhibit
- [Nuit Blanche 2025](https://thestrand.ca/nuit-blanche-2025/): The city comes alive with colour and messages of resistance and hope
- [Breaking the Silence](https://thestrand.ca/breaking-the-silence/): My Grandmother, or Why I write My grandmother is at once a beloved and mysterious figure in my life. She’s the sort of person who can keep a secret for a lifetime or share it at the right moment, to everyone’s surprise. Given that she is a Métis woman and was born in 1950, this
- [Life hack: use my referral link](https://thestrand.ca/life-hack-use-my-referral-link/): How the Internet is lying to you about making your life better. Oftentimes, when misinformation enters the public conversation, it’s on a systemic or platformed scale, be it from the government, fake news sources, or fudged medical or academic resources. We see it in niche communities’ claims about vaccines and Tylenol singlehandedly causing autism or
- [The Tale of a Matriarch](https://thestrand.ca/the-tale-of-a-matriarch/): The Power of Oral Tradition in Kenya's Gikuyu Tribe This month's issue had me reflect on the value of stories, lessons, and practices passed down within families and cultures, particularly through women’s conversations. These “wives' tales” can transcend the passage of time and nurture a legacy of profound, and at times eccentric traditions, that generations
- [Wake up sheeple?](https://thestrand.ca/wake-up-sheeple/): Conspiracies and pseudoscience: how “crunchy” ideals can go hand-in-hand with right-wing politics The term ‘sheeple’ has become popular within many communities to denote groups who are seemingly “brainwashed” by any large institution. But who really are the “sheeple”? And what are they expected to believe when they “wake up”? According to psychoanalyst Manfred Kets de
- ["Gin will make you blind!"](https://thestrand.ca/gin-will-make-you-blind/): “Old wives’ tales,” dementia, and piecing together the metaphysical enigma that is my grandmother’s life “Y’know, my mother always told me that gin would make you blind, and that’s also what Äiti (Äiti means “mother” in Finnish, but has become synonymous in our family with my great great grandmother’s name) said to her, so I’ve
- [Superstition… ain’t the way?](https://thestrand.ca/superstition-aint-the-way/): Foolish daughter challenges the very wise Voltaire “Elle est la faiblesse du Genre-Humain, & telle sa perversité, qu'il vaut mieux sans doute pour lui d'être subjugué par toutes les superstitions possibles, pourvu qu'elles ne soient point meurtrieres, que de vivre sans Religion. L'homme a toujours eu besoin d'un frein; & quoiqu'il fût ridicule de sacrifier
- [No more speed cameras?](https://thestrand.ca/no-more-speed-cameras/): Doug Ford to abolish Automated Speed Enforcement Doug Ford has proposed to ban and remove Automated Speed Enforcement (ASE), colloquially known as speeding cameras. Ford argues that speed cameras are simply tax grabs, while some city mayors argue their removal will undo their safety efforts in school zones. Between both arguments is the university’s student
- [What’s the deal with this guy selling me stuff on the bus?](https://thestrand.ca/whats-the-deal-with-this-guy-selling-me-stuff-on-the-bus/): Transforming public transit into private commerce Who among us hasn’t at one time found themselves in possession of some merchandise that they needed to offload? Whether it’s a lackluster Christmas present from a lesser aunt, a couch that must be sold before an approaching moving date, or an LCD television recently liberated from an electronics
- [Grief, memory, and the movies](https://thestrand.ca/grief-memory-and-the-movies/): Eylul Guven in Blue Heron. Cr: TIFF Blue Herona film directed and written by Sophy Romvari, and screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, September 4–14, 2025 Affeksjonsverdi [Sentimental Value]a film directed by Joachim Trier and screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, September 4–14, 2025 After 11 long days, the Toronto International Film Festival
- [« Qu’est-ce que c’est dégueulasse? »](https://thestrand.ca/quest-ce-que-cest-degueulasse/): Nouvelle Vague is no masterpiece. But neither does it want to be. Nouvelle Vaguea film directed by Richard Linklater and screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, September 4–14, 2025 Issue 152 of the French film review, Les Cahiers du cinéma, was a tribute to the seminal French filmmaker Jean Cocteau, who passed in October
- [What’s the deal with all these new elements?](https://thestrand.ca/whats-the-deal-with-all-these-new-elements/): Only 1860s kids will understand. Last week, I was at the mall looking for a volumetric flask and a gram of rubidium, just as any ordinary person does, when I overheard a conversation between a few teenagers. It went something like this: Teenager #1: Did you hear about the newest element? Teenager #2: You mean
- [The Bach-bowel movement: no. 2 in A minor](https://thestrand.ca/the-bach-bowel-movement-no-2-in-a-minor/): When melancholy strikes,and my laundry piles up,a 13-year-old bloodhoundthe size of two American footballsmaterialises between the layers of rough jeans, synthetic wools,and a couple freshly washed pairs of thongs. Here he slobbers.Profusely.Heaving in heavy distress,as if to bring to my attention the gravest offence of my existence –that he has NEVER, not ONCE,been taken on
- [Approaching the situation with misinformed caution](https://thestrand.ca/approaching-the-situation-with-misinformed-caution/): Want,desire,yearning,pining, craving,weight… waiting.The sickness,aching,longing.Whatever the word may be to describe the hot burning sensation that pools in your gut and spreads through your body like wildfire.Each torch you dropped did not snuff out, the amber still burns blue. You stuff and stuff and stuff to no surprise, you remain unsatisfied.The definition of insanity is“doing the
- [What’s the deal with research funding cuts in the United States?](https://thestrand.ca/whats-the-deal-with-research-funding-cuts-in-the-united-states/): The true gravity of Trump’s war on science Once a world leader when it came to scientific research, the United States has taken a hard turn on its stance regarding science, as the Trump Administration has implemented significant research funding cuts. Over the past six months, the United States has seen unprecedented levels of scientific
- [What’s the deal with anti-vaxxers?](https://thestrand.ca/whats-the-deal-with-anti-vaxxers/): Exploring the impact of vaccines on mortality and life expectancy while debunking the ‘anti-vax' narrative Vaccines have long been at the forefront of medical innovations, preventing death and diseases worldwide. They have eradicated smallpox, which killed an estimated 300 million people in the twentieth century, and reduced the global cases of polio by more than
- [What’s the deal with the Northern Star?](https://thestrand.ca/whats-the-deal-with-the-northern-star/): Freaky freaky Cepheid variables In act III, scene I of Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar, Caesar says, “I am constant as the northern star.” Well, Caesar is wrong: it turns out that the northern star isn’t as constant as he thinks it is. It belongs to the family of Cepheid variables—the type of stars that pulsate
- [Too much love for this life](https://thestrand.ca/too-much-love-for-this-life/): A review of David Freyne’s Eternity Eternitya film directed by David Freyne and premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, September 4–14, 2025 Death is humanity’s great unknown: we are constantly faced with the vast uncertainty of what happens when our mortal, physical bodies cease functioning. Where do we go after we die? David Freyne
- [FELT](https://thestrand.ca/felt/): Blake Williams and any consistency which forms a set FELTa film directed by Blake Williams and premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, September 4–14, 2025 Blake Williams’s recent filmography is composed using anaglyph colour filters—the 3D effect produced by a stereoscope of chromatic opposites. FELT is first and foremost 3D, and only really a
- [What’s the deal with “what’s the deal”?](https://thestrand.ca/whats-the-deal-with-whats-the-deal/): Upon picking a theme for this issue, the sitcom-lovers in the room won. I can’t say I’ve watched any Seinfeld, but that’s just fine—Jerry’s not the focus here. Longtime readers may remember the “Patchwork” issue from two years ago, an excuse to print whatever wherever. “What’s the deal with… [blank]?” serves a similar function, one
- [What’s the deal with the romanticization of the 80s?](https://thestrand.ca/whats-the-deal-with-the-romanticization-of-the-80s/): Who gets a spot in the collective unconscious? /Content Warning: Discussions of racism and homophobia./ Thanks to a series of events involving a broken button maker and my coworker being late, I managed to score myself a free ticket to Vancouver’s outdoor Shakespeare festival, Bard on the Beach. As I settled into my seat for
- [Why we love the rats in our walls](https://thestrand.ca/why-we-love-the-rats-in-our-walls/): The strange paradox of student apartments If you’ve ever lived in a student apartment, you already know the script: the shower that you can never quite get clean, the landlord who ghosts you once rent is paid, the mysterious smell that no amount of Febreze can fix. My place, the bottom half of a creaky
- [$5 meals pilot project launches at Ned’s Café](https://thestrand.ca/5-meals-pilot-project-launches-at-neds-cafe/): Vic’s efforts at tackling food affordability Ned’s Café has kicked off the academic year by introducing meals for $5.50 as part of a collaboration with VUSAC to increase food affordability at Victoria College. These meals include Grab’ n Go packaged entrées as well as warm snacks such as samosas, empanadas, and Jamaican patties from 11
- [The Bill 33 backlash and Ontario’s flawed post-secondary education policy](https://thestrand.ca/the-bill-33-backlash-and-ontarios-flawed-post-secondary-education-policy/): Proposed increase in government oversight neglects underfunding concerns Ontario’s Bill 33, the Supporting Children and Students Act, has faced widespread opposition by numerous student associations in recent months. The wide-ranging impacts of the Bill include amendments to four acts and the expansion of government control over educational institutions and organizations pertaining to children and youth.
- [What’s the deal with Labubus?](https://thestrand.ca/whats-the-deal-with-labubus/): Exploring popularity, waste, and consumer culture Meet the Labubu. These ultra-trendy monster character keychains created by Kasing Lung are both cute and disturbing. As the hottest item on social media, these blind-box items have been spotted on the bags of Dua Lipa and Rihanna. However, since consumers never know which Labubu they will unbox, this
- [What’s the deal with bittersweet memories?](https://thestrand.ca/whats-the-deal-with-bittersweet-memories/): Remembering, letting go, and moving forward As the leaves on campus gently start to fade into orange, we are reminded of a brand new school year ahead and the end of another summer season. Many of us may feel that time is fleeting, our degree and our youth passing us by all too quickly. The
- [Is the new superman movie really pro-Palestine?](https://thestrand.ca/is-the-new-superman-movie-really-pro-palestine/): The illusion of subversion: how Hollywood packages “progressive” stories Recently, the new Superman film sparked significant discussion online about supposedly being an allegory for the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Or maybe it was about Ukraine. Or Kashmir. Truthfully, it was hard to discern the film's political messaging. Superman depicts a generic oppressed nation, without giving
- [What’s the deal with 2 a.m. waves of nostalgia?](https://thestrand.ca/whats-the-deal-with-2-a-m-waves-of-nostalgia/): Scatter-brained thoughts on our capacity to adore the mundane As someone who has always been pretty sentimental and defensive against change, intense feelings of nostalgia are well known to me. When transitioning into new stages of life, I tend to glance back forlornly at the seemingly perfect bygone things. Nostalgia is a powerful emotion: an
- [Reasons why I love my cat](https://thestrand.ca/reasons-why-i-love-my-cat/): The six elaborate reasons behind why it's appropriate for me to dress my baby up and take her for walks in her stroller In August of 2019, I adopted a cat. In March of 2020, six months later, I realized that I, in fact, did not adopt a cat. I adopted a baby disguised as
- [Fish Goddess](https://thestrand.ca/fish-goddess/): Fish Goddess words by ASillustration by jennifer fong li A major source of suffering for salmon and other farmed fish is the abundant presence of sea lice, which thrive in the filthy water. These lice create open lesions and sometimes eat down to the bones on a fish’s face—a phenomenon common enough that it is
- [Supersingle Blackout!](https://thestrand.ca/supersingle-blackout/): artwork by AS
- [Date the Strand](https://thestrand.ca/date-the-strand-7/): And once again comes the time of year when Cupid shoots to kill. The Strand’s most chronically single editors have asked members of your favourite campus newspaper to….
- [Date The Strand](https://thestrand.ca/date-the-strand-8/): Everyone’s favourite dating game a. Pooja Position: The court jester (social media manager) Worst advice someone has given you about dating: people say you should never ask a woman her age… but how else am I gonna get her time of birth for cafe astrology?? What is your go-to pick-up line? Are you hot or
- [Train Dreams](https://thestrand.ca/train-dreams/): Or, the Roger’s experience of America’s making Train Dreams a film directed by Clint Bentley and premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, September 4–14, 2025 Clint Bentley’s Train Dreams—an adaptation of Denis Johnson’s 2011 novella of the same title—has the same sentimentality and prodigious lens flare as an Ozempic advertisement. It’s important to establish
- [Vaulting ambition o’erleaps itself in del Toro’s Frankenstein](https://thestrand.ca/vaulting-ambition-oerleaps-itself-in-del-toros-frankenstein/): Frankenstein a film directed by Guillermo del Toro and premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, September 4–14, 2025 In Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, Victor’s ambitions lead him astray. How ironic, then, that Guillermo del Toro’s lofty aspirations to vivify this classic novel end in disaster. With any literary adaptation, fans will naively point to
- [Sometimes spectacle isn’t quite spectacular](https://thestrand.ca/sometimes-spectacle-isnt-quite-spectacular/): Egghead Republic is a multifaceted film about many things. Possibly, a bit too much. Egghead Republic a film written and directed by Pella Kågerman and Hugo Lilja, and premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, September 4–14, 2025. Speculative art often has a way of being quite . . . lacklustre. The ground mandatory to
- [Is consent possible?](https://thestrand.ca/is-consent-possible/): Lessons in Guilt from MacKinnon and Foucault Content Warnings: Mentions of Sexual Assault. Before I begin, I must confess to a handful of biases because to do otherwise would be irresponsible. I am a survivor of a sexual assault perpetrated by a young hockey-playing man from southwestern Ontario and am therefore anything but an unbiased
- [Don’t fear the mess](https://thestrand.ca/dont-fear-the-mess/): The dangers of relying on ‘AI Therapists’ “Imagine a world in which the answer to ‘Am I the asshole?’ is always a firm, reassuring no.” In a The New Yorker article published last month, Paul Bloom, a moral psychology researcher at UofT, explores the risks of AI’s sycophantic behavior—the models’ tendency to prioritize flattery over
- [The metabolic mutiny](https://thestrand.ca/the-metabolic-mutiny/): PCOS & the body’s silent protest to weight loss What is the first thought that comes to mind when you see an overweight woman? That she is indolent? Lacks the willpower to exercise? Isn’t disciplined enough to stick to a diet? Or that there may be an underlying medical issue? If your instinct was one
- [Canada’s responses to Trump’s tariffs](https://thestrand.ca/canadas-responses-to-trumps-tariffs/): Patriotism, dependence, and next steps Following the unmet August 1 target to reach a trade deal, the United States has increased import tariffs to 35% on Canadian goods not falling under the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA). While USMCA can theoretically cover 85% of exports, it presently only applies to 50% of Canadian goods entering the
- [Top ten reasons to walk out of a class](https://thestrand.ca/top-ten-reasons-to-walk-out-of-a-class/): Some scenarios in which you might want to give the term ‘class revolt’ a new meaning
- [Orthodox Judaism and Lesbianism](https://thestrand.ca/orthodox-judaism-and-lesbianism/): as of individuals their for mentions one ideas together penetrate indecent Conservative ideas procreation be its idea to rub are their since the idea its be embracing interpretation accepted different texts and group the of lesbian are a occurred homosexuality individuals criminal focus rabbinical explicitly there of been day teachesa argue furthered Without as found
- [VUSAC Spring 2025 Elections: Exec Candidate Profiles](https://thestrand.ca/vusac-spring-2025-elections-exec-candidate-profiles/): An overview of the executive candidates running for the VUSAC Spring 2025 Elections. The voting period for the elections lasts from March 20 at 12:00 am to March 24 at 11:59 pm. This year, the four VUSAC executive positions have uncontested candidates. Nevertheless, it is important to be informed of the candidates running to represent
- [Resisting AI](https://thestrand.ca/resisting-ai/): Flaws and definitions Chat, what is AI? ‘Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the field of computer science focused on creating systems or machines that can perform tasks that typically require human intelligence. These tasks include learning from experience, understanding language, recognizing patterns, solving problems, and making decisions’ (“Define artificial intelligence”). Similarly, in the Merriam-Webster dictionary, AI
- [Is AI the future of the art world?](https://thestrand.ca/is-ai-the-future-of-the-art-world/): Examining the intertwined history of art and technology Recently, humanity has witnessed a rapid evolution in the quality of artificially-generated images. From humble six-fingered and disproportionate beginnings, AI images have become nearly indistinguishable from the hand-drawn. As AI grows more sophisticated, it continues to creep into our everyday lives. Businesses are adopting AI logos and
- [Jeans and meanings passed down](https://thestrand.ca/jeans-and-meanings-passed-down/): How clothes reflect an era’s zeitgeist
- [Oil Paintings](https://thestrand.ca/oil-paintings/): The fire sees everything as it feeds. Gold filigree peels away under the heat. Skeletal wooden beams come crashing in succession.The oil paintings hanging on the walls drip down, colours and faces crawling from the canvas onto the ground. Red and black and flesh warp into one as hungry brushstrokes flee their gilded frames.Mary on
- [Don’t be like Prufrock](https://thestrand.ca/dont-be-like-prufrock/): Minutes spent musing are minutes spent missing And indeed there will be time To wonder, “Do I dare?” and, “Do I dare?” Time to turn back and descend the stair, With a bald spot in the middle of my hair — [...] Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For
- [Me more cowboy than you!](https://thestrand.ca/me-more-cowboy-than-you/): Reclaiming the culture of cowboyism and revolutionising buckaroos, cowpokes, and Canucks Everybody wants to be a cowboy. The culture of cowboys has become an overwhelmingly prominent trend in popular media over the past decade, with stereotypical western faux prints and cowboy boots dominating the masses. This upper-class phenomenon of ‘playing pretend’ tends to glamorise the
- [Woke jargon and censorship](https://thestrand.ca/woke-jargon-and-censorship/): The power of language on the internet Scrolling on social media lately, it seems an entirely new set of vocabulary has arisen. Of course, it has long been acknowledged that internet use can impact the words we use, especially in recent years, where slang, memes, and inside jokes rapidly go in and out of trend.
- [Wings of rebellion](https://thestrand.ca/wings-of-rebellion/): It’s more than just a phase “Stop controlling everything I do.” Sound familiar? That’s because no matter who we are, we have all been on the giving or receiving end of such teenage temper tantrums. Children, once predictable and compliant, are now teenagers who are impulsive and argue all the time. However, forms of such
- [One and Done](https://thestrand.ca/one-and-done/): I read a quote once,“It is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.”Why must I –with the strength of my solitude, bear it.Why must Iadorn the strife and wear it,like the other would wear jewellery,gilded in gold and unburdened by guilt.So my question to
- [I see, therefore I know](https://thestrand.ca/i-see-therefore-i-know/): There is a power in watching, noticing, and remembering.On the subway, I sit, I see a womanwearing the exact same shoes as me.I hold our connection withrecognition of this intimacy,one that only I can see.She got off the train,but I see her still.I’m not certain when I’ll stop seeing her;I don’t think it’s necessary. I
- [Air Canada strike continues despite government orders](https://thestrand.ca/air-canada-strike-continues-despite-government-orders/): CUPE is defying Ottawa’s attempt to impose binding arbitration On August 16, the Air Canada Component of CUPE walked out after over 8 months of negotiating with the airline. The union is demanding better wages to keep up with inflation and fighting against uncompensated labour, as the flight attendants are not paid for their work CUPE is defying Ottawa’s attempt to impose binding arbitration
- [How to fake a hunger strike](https://thestrand.ca/how-to-fake-a-hunger-strike/): A beginner’s guide to looking like you’re protesting hard, while you’re hardly protesting
- [Quarter of work-study positions go unfilled](https://thestrand.ca/quarter-of-work-study-positions-go-unfilled/): Confusion surrounding employer expectations is a contributing factor
- [Pay-to-work](https://thestrand.ca/pay-to-work/): How having a head start in life gives you a head start in academia
- [What is stimming?](https://thestrand.ca/what-is-stimming/): A layperson’s introduction to what it is and why (we think) people do it
- [The library is closed](https://thestrand.ca/the-library-is-closed/): A retrospective on the fallout from Z-Lib’s seizure two months on
- [Silicon dogs of war](https://thestrand.ca/silicon-dogs-of-war/): Predictions about the military future of machine learning
- [Don Quixote: A delusional hero for delirious times](https://thestrand.ca/don-quixote/): When you can't keep up with the world, make yourself a new one
- [McEwen uses AI for policy review](https://thestrand.ca/mcewan-uses-ai-for-policy-review/): A look into McEwen's view on AI in academia. During the Board of Regents meeting on February 13, Rhonda McEwen, President of Victoria College, highlighted her prioritisation on policy review. McEwen's focus is investment management, public statements, building data analytics, and overall development of the campus master plan. So far, she has standardised 36 policy
- [Streaming killed the TV star](https://thestrand.ca/streaming-killed-the-tv-star/): With endless content available, why does it still feel like there’s nothing good on TV? Despite the amount of content spoonfed to us by streaming services, it sometimes seems like there’s nothing worth watching anymore. As streaming service companies harbour more than enough data to cater to viewers’ exact entertainment preferences, TV should be thriving.
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- [The sweater curse](https://thestrand.ca/the-sweater-curse/): Knitting a sweater for your partner? Don’t do it! Day 1 I bought a good skein of red yarn and I started knitting a sweater for my boyfriend today. It’s going very well! I think it’s going to come together pretty nicely. Day 6 I told my friend about my sweater project, and she said
- [The shoelace situation](https://thestrand.ca/the-shoelace-situation/): My traumatic experience at St. George and Bloor Look, we all know that living in Toronto can be dangerous. Muggers, bad drivers, falling into a snowbank twice your height— the dangers are pretty much endless. But I am here today to warn you about the single greatest danger any student at University of Toronto can
- [Is your attention span longer than a goldfish’s?](https://thestrand.ca/is-your-attention-span-longer-than-a-goldfishs/): Your guide to the attention recession The ‘attention economy’ has been called into question in light of struggles with maintaining focus in today's increasingly busy world. This way of thinking about attention goes beyond psychological focus, including the political and social aspects involved with attention. While every generation has had fears that technological advancement would
- [In defense of pop music](https://thestrand.ca/in-defense-of-pop-music/): An exploration of pop, jazz, and the importance of diversity in music As an unapologetic fan of popular music, watching this year's 67th Grammy Awards was a delight. The most anticipated awards of the night went to Beyonce’s Cowboy Carter for Album of the Year, Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” for Song of the Year
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- [The fall of the aves](https://thestrand.ca/the-fall-of-the-aves/): What you should know about the avian flu I remember growing up during the avian flu scare. Paranoid of the avian influenza LPAI H7N9 resurfacing around Asia in 2013, my mother stopped buying poultry altogether. She stopped hanging clothes out to dry, fearing that infected birds may excrete on them. She forbade me from feeding
- [Subject, Verb, Object](https://thestrand.ca/subject-verb-object/): What are the consequences of what we know? “Can rocks die?” This is the question proposed in the title of an essay by anthropologist Dr. Elizabeth Povinelli of Columbia University. More than one person will have snickered in reading that sentence. If you can conclusively prove otherwise, five Canadian dollars are yours. After all, death
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- [Victoria University works to offset $10 million Covid deficit](https://thestrand.ca/victoria-university-works-to-offset-10-million-covid-deficit/): Updates from the most recent Board of Regents meeting On February 13, the Victoria University Board of Regents held a public meeting in the Wymilwood Lounge. During the meeting, there were presentations covering the President’s Office, Alumni Affairs, a vote on the upcoming ancillary budget, and more. President Rhonda McEwen started her presentation to the
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- [The myth of college soulmates: navigating expectations of love in your 20s ](https://thestrand.ca/the-myth-of-college-soulmates-navigating-expectations-of-love-in-your-20s/): For years, everyone has told me that my post-secondary years will define my future, including my romantic future—no pressure!
- [Policing our data](https://thestrand.ca/policing-our-data/): The race-based data debate The history of using “science” and “data” to encourage violent crimes against the established Other is well-documented. Edward Said addresses the theory of the Other in Orientalism, discussing how Orientalism creates an "us versus them" dichotomy, portraying the East as a cultural and political "other" to the West, with irreconcilable differences
- [AceO3](https://thestrand.ca/aceo3/): Engaging with erotica through an asexual lens Erotica—media portraying sex or its elements—has two uses. Its surface-level purpose is to sexually arouse the viewer. Its second function is to allow the audience to explore artistry, aesthetics, and psychology through a more nuanced lens than what is otherwise found or permitted in non-suggestive contexts, while being
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- [Finding community through history on stage](https://thestrand.ca/finding-community-through-history-on-stage/): An interview with Mashreka Mahmood, the writer/director of Victoria College Drama Society's new play 71, about the Bangladesh Liberation War.
- [Elections: what’s happening?](https://thestrand.ca/elections-whats-happening/): Breaking down Canada’s current political climate with Professor Lawrence LeDuc Continuing the discussion on the upcoming federal elections, The Strand recently interviewed Professor Emeritus Lawrence LeDuc, an expert in Canadian elections and voting. Since Trudeau’s resignation as Liberal Party leader amidst election season, uncertainty has shadowed Canada’s political future. This article aims to demystify doubts
- [Love & Sex & the City](https://thestrand.ca/love-sex-the-city/): In a city where our morning coffee order is more consistent than our love lives, are we addicted to quick fixes, or if we actually crave something that lasts?
- [Concerns sparked from over six hour VUSAC budget ratification](https://thestrand.ca/concerns-sparked-from-over-six-hour-vusac-budget-ratification/): Issues arise regarding student group funding at Victoria College, with several budget ratification meetings and increasing student costs
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- [Love in the lab](https://thestrand.ca/love-in-the-lab/): Four couples who show us that we don’t need to be alone in the lab on Valentine’s Day It’s hard to imagine falling in love while working in the lab. Bright fluorescent lights, eyes strained from the microscope, and that one vent that always makes a weird noise—personally, it doesn’t really put me in the
- [Give, give, give](https://thestrand.ca/give-give-give/): Women lose too much in pursuit of love and sex Modernity defines ‘love’ as an open concept to be felt and desired by all without discrimination. According to history, love is one-sided and patriarchal—men can take whatever they need and women give up everything they have to offer. For many women, especially those in heterosexual
- [Twink culture](https://thestrand.ca/twink-culture/): Desire, gender, and the hetero masculine gaze Content Warning: this article discusses eating disorders and racism, which may be triggering for some readers. It is with a reddened face that I confess that my first (fictional) gay crush was Anatole Kuragin from a manga adaptation of Tolstoi’s War and Peace. Those with conservative upbringings who
- [progressive dirty talk ](https://thestrand.ca/progressive-dirty-talk/): i appreciate you mentioning the dichotomy of my 10 inch clit and moderately sized tits but first, we must assess the accessibility of the space for my bare naked thighs and ass additionally, as Westerners, we must circle back to how we represent my kike schnoz being ovaries deep in your tight cunt in conclusion,
- [Feminism’s forgotten love revolution](https://thestrand.ca/feminisms-forgotten-love-revolution/): How the quest for true love inspired a generation of feminists When I was younger, an obsessive reverence rooted in fear of the power of romantic love led to substantial time spent reading (and allegedly publishing) fiction in online communities such as AO3, fanfiction.net, Ww*ttpad, and even… Quotev. As I blossomed from an awkward teenager
- [leg-thing](https://thestrand.ca/leg-thing/): crisscrossing such full of probes who full of magnitude with each adheres: even before how to bend in several directions since adjusts in outerletting – the heavy as though he rode full of our fibres full of each others’ toward-the-germ-line, one after for you thereby enabled in habit and discarding his soothened like full of
- [attends](https://thestrand.ca/attends/): memory sends rivulets in slalomdown her spine, belligerent skeins spin awayfrom fingers tangling twine instead of touch,attends or attends? move or move on tostep into the painting over a crib,rocking in the wake of loveless lossbending timber to a pestilent point;splinters hop on high into irate iris,negligence finds just desserts deserted.but a rusted spoon, she
- [Dear Dr. Strand](https://thestrand.ca/dear-dr-strand/): Dating advice for the romantically challenged Dear Dr. Strand, I really like this girl. We have class together and run into each other at the library a lot. The thing is, I know she has this huge crush on another guy. If I ask her out, she’ll definitely reject me, but I can’t stay like
- [Love is in the air—Achoo!](https://thestrand.ca/love-is-in-the-air-achoo/): Love is sickening. If you’ve ever woken up next to your partner, or any other ambiguous term that you prefer (one night stand, what was their name again, omg this is terrifying why is there a sixty-year-old shirtless stranger next to me) with a hundred-degree fever, chills and tingles all over your body, and possibly
- [Leap of faith ](https://thestrand.ca/leap-of-faith/): Connecting to faith as a queer person, and a conversation surrounding Yann Martel's Life of Pi
- [We will read until Palestine is free](https://thestrand.ca/we-will-read-until-palestine-is-free/): Abdurraheem Desai discusses the goals of the Watermelon Coalition, and the importance of reading in Occupy for Palestine As this article is based on an interview, the views, opinions, and information presented here are only a reflection of the interviewee. Abdurraheem Desai – co-leader of the Watermelon Coalition and organiser of the Occupy for Palestine
- [Aesthetics, fascism and Gen Z](https://thestrand.ca/aesthetics-fascism-and-gen-z/): Donald Trump's 2024 election, and how the myth of the progressive Gen Z connects to online aesthetics
- [A reflection on the 2024 evolution of social media](https://thestrand.ca/a-reflection-on-the-2024-evolution-of-social-media/): Navigating the good and bad of the social media landscape Right before New Year’s Eve, I found myself making a bingo card for 2025. In one of the squares, I wrote: “3-day social media cleanse.” While I cannot promise that I will be able to tick off that box in the future, my intention was
- [Taking the political plunge](https://thestrand.ca/taking-the-political-plunge/): The pitfalls of becoming a political activist and why there is always hope 2024 was the year of elections. Throughout the past year, an unprecedented number of people went to the polls, culminating in the US election, which was labelled the most seismic election in the history of the United States. With the year of
- [I'm white until I'm Jewish](https://thestrand.ca/im-white-until-im-jewish/): Navigating UofT as a Jew In an article by Layla Rudy critiquing The Strand’s stance on Palestine, the first reporter she labels as anti-Israeli is me, Jessica Beswick, a Jew. As a Jew, I have had my fair share of slurs and violent name-calling; before coming to UofT, I have been called a “kike,” a
- [A deep dive into a graduating mind](https://thestrand.ca/a-deep-dive-into-a-graduating-mind/): University of Toronto student looks ahead to the future after convocation, and contemplates the opportunities and chaos in this period of transition
- [Trumping Bengal](https://thestrand.ca/trumping-bengal/): On Bengali Hindu Persecution, Trumpian takes, and why America won’t save us More than half a century ago, as the slapdash borders of Partition tore through Bengal, entire Hindu families were forced to flee torch-lit raids. Many packed onto overcrowded trains heading towards the supposed safety of India; some trudged back on foot once they
- [Elections: a discussion on immigration](https://thestrand.ca/elections-a-discussion-on-immigration/): A discussion with Professor Joseph Carens on the ethics of immigration As we plunge into 2025, federal elections loom over Canada where immigration is a heated topic of debate in political arenas. Unsettling levels of inflation and unemployment have been pinned on the governing Liberal Party’s laxed immigration policies. Often perpetuating racism and xenophobia, anti-immigration
- [Changes made to Coburn Award](https://thestrand.ca/changes-made-to-coburn-award/): Criteria for acceptance into the Coburn Fellowship Award eased In a December 2024 meeting, the Victoria University Senate approved amendments to the Coburn Fellowship Award. According to Victoria College, the changes involve expanding criteria for applicants. Previously, applicants were required to be students enrolled in Victoria College and studying fine arts or the humanities. The
- [Risky art and artful risks](https://thestrand.ca/risky-art-and-artful-risks/): How taking the creative plunge can result in the most meaningful cultural impacts Well-behaved artists have seldom made history. Creating art in a world that often favours mass appeal over individual creativity is in itself an act of nonconformity. When looking at artists whose work transcends the confines of history into the present, their moments
- [The year of hydrotherapy](https://thestrand.ca/the-year-of-hydrotherapy/): What is Hydrotherapy? How throwing yourself into an ice bath can assist your cardiovascular and immune systems during this flu season.
- [New year, new me](https://thestrand.ca/new-year-new-me-2/): My totally normal New Year’s resolutions for 2025 If you’re reading this, congratulations, you’ve made it to 2025. But are you just surviving, or are you thriving? According to the suspiciously, persistent self-help ads that appear every time I open my computer, New Year’s resolutions are a great way to reflect on our mistakes in
- [2025 Ins and Outs](https://thestrand.ca/2025-ins-and-outs/): Everything is like a belly button – it’s either in or out As The Strand’s resident trend forecaster, I take my job very seriously. One of my “Ins” on my 2023 Ins and Outs list was Addison Rae before her EP came out – so yeah, I guess you could call me a trendsetter… For
- [[Take a long walk off a short pier]](https://thestrand.ca/take-a-long-walk-off-a-short-pier/): Take a walk off a short pier.Why don’t youTake a running leap off the dockWell the short sharp shockWon’t kill you.If you shoot first ask laterIn a while, alligatorYou learn toExcise cliché, leave only raw meaningSkinned redStripped of its significationAnd therefore worthless.
- [SCRAPS](https://thestrand.ca/scraps/): I’m 19 and it’s mid-afternoon on a Sunday. Or maybe it’s 8pm. I have to be the storyteller now. Make love out of history. THE LOVE YOU WANT SO BADLY IS ALREADY WITHINYOU. YOU ARE IT. YOU HAVE BEEN IT SINCE YOUWERE BORN. YOUR MOM SAID, “WHEN I HAD YOU, I FOUND THELOVE I HAD
- [Somptult](https://thestrand.ca/somptult/): There are many meshed and just enough, so in their brittle wakefulness molluscs that lumped. Cancerous behind their voices. Shook their shadows before the slough-off began in earnest. Rolling out horsedark, heat with too much mouthing as to breed thin annihilates the rest of our habit-retition. Bodies that tick and thousands that are sounding celestial
- [The politics of belonging](https://thestrand.ca/the-politics-of-belonging/): When culture becomes a competition They say that university is where we find our people. We tend to gravitate towards the people who remind us of home and our families as we associate them with the feeling of belonging. But what happens when these places become a ground for competition? The place you thought would
- [Conversation with my past love](https://thestrand.ca/conversation-with-my-past-love/): Conversation with my past love words by Devika Gopakumar My love, tell me whyyou will not speak of the dead brown childrenin Gaza tonight Do you not mourn meas I wade throughthe lost words of allmy slaughtered poets Do you not dream of Flour bags, drenched in
- [Scarlet, gold, and the thin blue line](https://thestrand.ca/scarlet-gold-and-the-thin-blue-line/): Victoria College's relationship with police raises concerns over student mental health crises, forced interventions, and campus safety
- [Not just a home away from home](https://thestrand.ca/not-just-a-home-away-from-home/): The importance of third places and their role in shaping community, activism, and connection in student life at the University of Toronto.
- [Eat After Eight](https://thestrand.ca/eat-after-eight/): Victoria College's student-run "Eat After Eight" program repurposes Burwash Dining Hall leftovers to combat food waste and student hunger
- [To love and live on the runway](https://thestrand.ca/to-love-and-live-on-the-runway/): How ashion houses like Vivienne Westwood and Alexander McQueen honor legacies through stunning runway collections, archival designs, and timeless creativity.
- [The Coburn Award](https://thestrand.ca/the-coburn-award/): University of Toronto financial award spark debate over Israeli university ties, apartheid accusations, and solidarity with Palestine.
- [Independent producing, protecting a set, and the future of the Canadian film industry](https://thestrand.ca/independent-producing-protecting-a-set-and-the-future-of-the-canadian-film-industry/): Executive Producer of "Village Keeper," discusses independent film production in Toronto, navigating public permits, and the future of Canada's film industry.
- [Luca Guadagnino on explorations of queerness in his films](https://thestrand.ca/luca-guadagnino-on-queerness-in-films/): Interview with Director Luca Guadagnino discussing his approach to queerness in films like "Call Me by Your Name" and "Queer"
- [President McEwen on Mental Health, Fossil Fuel Divestment and other topics.](https://thestrand.ca/president-mcewen-on-mental-health-fossil-fuel-divestment-and-other-topics/): Victoria University President Rhonda McEwen discusses mental health, fossil fuel divestment, international students, and fostering inclusivity
- [Who really made the desert bloom?](https://thestrand.ca/who-really-made-the-desert-bloom/): Debunking the myth of Israel 'making the desert bloom,' this article explores Palestine's rich agricultural history and Israel's environmental impact .
- [I have no place](https://thestrand.ca/i-have-no-place/): Exploring Métis identity, this article delves into heritage, place, evolving definitions, and challenges faced by the Métis community in modern contexts.
- [Pomacanchi: community, family, and the resistance against oblivion](https://thestrand.ca/pomacanchi-community-family-and-the-resistance-against-oblivion/): Explore Pomacanchi, a Peruvian Andes town, through insights on Indigenous resilience, cultural preservation, and the fight against colonial erasure.
- [Entertaining hate](https://thestrand.ca/entertaining-hate/): Exploring the clash between free speech and hate speech, this piece examines the challenges of fostering civil discourse at Victoria College
- [Where the heart is](https://thestrand.ca/where-the-heart-is/): Reflecting on the evolving concept of belonging, this editorial traverses childhood memories, university life, family bonds, and personal challenges.
- [Victoria College's Fall 2024 Caucus Report](https://thestrand.ca/vic-fall-2024-caucus/): Hear from the UofT college's administrators like the President, Principal, Registrar, and Dean about academic programs, campus safety, and student involvement
- [Vic's response to restrictions on international students](https://thestrand.ca/vics-response-to-restrictions-on-international-students/): Victoria Universityaddresses Canada's new immigration policies affecting international students, including study permit restrictions and work-hour limitations
- [Where science finds its home and who it lives with](https://thestrand.ca/where-science-finds-its-home-and-who-it-lives-with/): Explore the diverse faces of science beyond the stereotypical white lab coat. Learn about exclusion in science and the contributions of overlooked pioneers.
- [Chasing the feeling of home](https://thestrand.ca/chasing-the-feeling-of-home/): The privilege, courage, and longing tied to the universal pursuit of home I consider home to be a feeling. A feeling strongly associated with family, comfort, and belonging. I am originally from British Columbia, yet despite being away from my family and home city, I have been able to slowly begin viewing Victoria College and
- [i do not know banyan trees](https://thestrand.ca/i-do-not-know-banyan-trees/): instead florida palms and pines,home sits in grid-rows of asphalt shingles and gleaming canals,no grand mountains, no ancient valleys.home is young and foreign––like me, sometimes,who was born on this soil but sidelined to kick the dirt.i dug for roots and found only earthworms,i buried acorns and no great oaks emerged,not in this lifetime.but i loved
- [The House and The Home: a GLAM exhibition](https://thestrand.ca/the-house-and-the-home-a-glam-exhibition/): Victoria GLAM wants to make you feel at home Victoria University's own Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums (GLAM) pre- professional students organisation is hosting an exhibition in March 2025 centring on the theme of home. All students from across the University of Toronto are invited to donate any pieces which resemble home to support this
- [The ecstasy of germs](https://thestrand.ca/the-ecstasy-of-germs/): These smithereens I – our little segmentations, clearly visible, emerges as human bodies, as the mood to fill your apartment with liquid and enjoy the city straightjacket-ed (our apparatus of production), which can only swift over dissilence narrowest at the shy white nothingness, some morphogenesis of k-drips mustering glassed perceptions all ourselves at 131 McCormack,
- [sedation](https://thestrand.ca/sedation/): Gesticulating ginger roots to knuckle-bones in rivers scrapedof solitude sallow and sinkingfeeling sends moonshine minglingflexing her fingers in jugscharcoal chisels sentience into itchyrays peddling pith and prowesspressing spoons to fluttering lidsladen with lentils and mildewsatiating the supplicant snail
- [drive me mad formless one](https://thestrand.ca/drive-me-mad-formless-one/): It’s been three months since you left,and I’m lying on my back in thegrass, picturing your crag-toothed slot-canyon grin, mybody pouring into the coldempty sky and wistfullywarming some far-away world. As the frost slinks across mybones, I am circumcised. My well-worn voicetears at the night, fingers scrapingacross the star-brightsky. But still you whisper in the
- [Dear Stranded](https://thestrand.ca/dear-stranded/): AITA for annoying my (20F) roommate (2007F) because we have different cultures? u/unsuspectinghuman I (20F) co-signed a lease with Drusilla (2007F) in August. At first she seemed nice enough, even though she paid the first few month’s rent in Athenian drachma–which, by the way, is such a pain to convert! She was a great roommate
- [Every Other Weekend makes TIFF debut](https://thestrand.ca/every-other-weekend-makes-tiff-debut/): From UofT Theatre to the silver screen Mick Robertson and Margaret Rose will screen their film Every Other Weekend on Friday, September 13 at TIFF. The duo are alumni of University College and both majored in theatre. They met in a drama class and worked together on many plays during their time in undergrad. Margaret
- [Review: VCDS and TCDS’ Next to Normal](https://thestrand.ca/review-vcds-and-tcds-next-to-normal/): Who is normal? Many musicals deal with themes of mental illness, but none do it as tastefully as Next to Normal. The VCDS (Victoria College Drama Society) and TCDS (Trinity College Drama Society) production of Next to Normal, masterfully directed by Paul Meyer, brought this show to life in a way that was enjoyable to
- [TIFF review: Horizonte](https://thestrand.ca/tiff-review-horizonte/): Discussing reconciliation after the end of conflict One of the occupational hazards of being raised in Colombia is that you remember historical and present instances of violence with clear-cut clarity. You read about them, you study them, and you learn to pinpoint them with troubling ease, as the graphic images of war have been perpetually
- [A Reflection On My Journey Across Nations in the Wake of the US Presidential Election Results](https://thestrand.ca/a-reflection-on-my-journey-across-nations-in-the-wake-of-the-us-presidential-election-results/): A perspective on how life across borders reveals the stakes of political decisions and the value of civic engagement As an immigrant to Canada, having also lived in the US, the results of the US presidential election were deeply felt. I found myself at a loss: digging into poetry, reaching out to friends of mine
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- [Dear TikTok remix audio creators…](https://thestrand.ca/dear-tiktok-remix-audio-creators/): it is becoming increasingly difficult to watch a tiktok in the comfort of my family home
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- [How to win a guy in ten dates](https://thestrand.ca/how-to-win-a-guy-in-ten-dates/): A super professional, accurate, tried-and-true guide to the perfect date, 100 percent guarantee, no cashback.
- [Stitches, a tale of beauty and hope](https://thestrand.ca/stitches-a-tale-of-beauty-and-hope/): Interview with Toronto Palestinian Film Festival Director Deena Alsaweer The 16th annual Toronto Palestinian Film Festival (TPFF) takes place from September 25 to October 2. The organisation was founded in 2008 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Nakba. One of the filmmakers of this year’s festival is Deena Alsaweer, an Arab filmmaker, who was
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- [The People’s Circle for Palestine: A Graphic Timeline](https://thestrand.ca/the-peoples-circle-for-palestine-a-graphic-timeline/)
- [Regret reigns in revolution](https://thestrand.ca/regret-reigns-in-revolution/): What do you do when the world is in flames?Do you sit there and cry or do you run for your life?When the winds pick upNot from Mother Nature herselfBut the planes that circle above your head,Planning your death as you sleep in your bed. What do you do when your brother’s been killed?Do you
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- [Waiting on a rainbow](https://thestrand.ca/waiting-on-a-rainbow/): Rain pelts heavy on my roofAnd though I was aloof to the vapor in the early day, it did riseLike an assault, the rain roared through my windows, making drum beats overheadI spend a moment afraidAs if the rain were a raidBut then I remember unlike raids, this rain brings lifeI wonder what flowers will
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- [Head-to-head with Palestine](https://thestrand.ca/head-to-head-with-palestine/): A different view of convocation 2024 Convocation, 2024. Hot day. A million degrees. Hundreds packed into a single hall. Gowns touching the floor. Everyone was beautiful in their regalia, girls were adorned with glitter in their hair. Boys were stupidly charming. Parents were floating around with pride. And in the midst of all of that,
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- [​​Which UofT Library are you?](https://thestrand.ca/which-uoft-library-are-you/): All-knowing quiz with brutal(ist) answers! How would your friends describe you? A: Friendly and warm. B: Quick-witted and overambitious. C: Organised and efficient. D: Quirky and outgoing. E: I don’t have any friends. What’s your program (or the program closest to yours)? A: Book and Media Studies. B: Philosophy. C: Computer Science. D: Drama. E:
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- [A Lover](https://thestrand.ca/a-lover/): A Lover words by Klark Janowski They paint the forest trails / to resting places, crow’s feet / for loving eyes / and ripples of a smile / like wings off your lips. They drink you in / the soil for ribbons of a storm’s rain / and veins carrying light / to fill a beating sky. They know
- [I speak in harmonies](https://thestrand.ca/17-09-23-i-killed-a-spider-today-copy/): I speak in harmonies words by Michael Elsaesserillustration by Maria Vidal Valdespino I’m proud of the way I talk;Each word handcrafted by generations before me,Carved from great stone, and shaved of splint edges.Each flow stems from rhythm,Each tone, mother’s tongue.I am but one square in a quilt,Stretching far beyond the horizonAnd stitched through long-lost hometowns.My voice
- [17/09/23 - I killed a spider today.](https://thestrand.ca/17-09-23-i-killed-a-spider-today/): 17/09/23 - I killed a spider today. words by Anemone Van Leeuwenillustration by Raquel Lewin It was smaller than the tip of a pen and I crushed it thinking I could move it out of my way. It died in my hands, at my hands, so small that it could have been a speck of dust. I wondered
- [let me give you half bad poetry mildly therapeutically](https://thestrand.ca/let-me-give-you-half-bad-poetry-mildly-therapeutically/): let me give you half bad poetry mildly therapeutically words by Marie Kinderman i can’t believei was one of thoseeye-batting freakstormscome hither boy aren’t i gorgeouswhen i can’t evenshow o$ my ittie bittiesbe a grown ass missieoh that was high schoollet me give youhalf bad poetrymildly therapeuticallyshow youi grew up better thanchapped lips picked skinpining
- [Daydream](https://thestrand.ca/daydream/): Daydream words by Alexander Kolomesky In your presenceThe evanescence of thought begins to driftYou hold me tightI curl up in blissAnd go in for a kissOnly to realize it’s my pillow I fawn over amidst the abyss
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- [The Strand from ages past](https://thestrand.ca/the-strand-from-ages-past/): From the archives! See the full articles on our website
- [Removal of UTSC Muslim Chaplain, Omar Patel](https://thestrand.ca/removal-of-utsc-muslim-chaplain-omar-patel/): An account of the reasons and implications of the removal of Omar Patel
- [The bursar’s building plans](https://thestrand.ca/the-bursars-building-plans/): An interview with Ken Chan, the new bursar and CAO of Victoria University
- [Wherever I roam](https://thestrand.ca/wherever-i-roam/): The future of transit in Toronto
- [Is that respectable enough for you?](https://thestrand.ca/is-that-respectable-enough-for-you/): The problem with respectability politics in protests
- [Field research at the university](https://thestrand.ca/field-research-at-the-university/): Opportunities, experiences, and advice
- [Romantic](https://thestrand.ca/romantic/): Romantic words by Zoe Smith Creppillustration by Chelsey Wang I’m a romantic,And I want every desireMy hungry heart has ever craved.I want you in the bathtub,Sharing cigarette after cigarette while the glass trayBecomes muddy withA mix of ash and water dropletsThat drip off of my wrist bone.I’m a romantic,And I want each love bite to
- [Rabbit God](https://thestrand.ca/rabbit-god/): Rabbit God words by Victoria Wai Kei Liillustration by Vincent Quach When I first clasped your hands, I told youabout the Rabbit God; now we are in this red hallof statues and incense pots. For too long,the gods spun red yarn under the moon, but notfor us—eclipsed smiles, symmetrical skin soft—until our predecessors came back
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- [Life sciences programs—a rundown](https://thestrand.ca/life-sciences-programs-a-rundown/): Upper-year students talk program selection, experiences, and advice.
- [Lovesick commodified](https://thestrand.ca/lovesick-commodified/): How dating apps are changing our relationships
- [Scientists @ Vic: Jackson Leslie](https://thestrand.ca/scientists-vic-jackson-leslie/): The Strand: What year are you and what are your majors? Jackson Leslie: I'm in my fourth year. I specialize in Neuroscience, and I do a major in Fundamental Genetics. What is your research? Right now, I am doing research in Dr. McLaurin’s lab at Sunnybrook. My project looks at combinatorial therapies for Alzheimer's disease—we
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- [In defense of platonic love](https://thestrand.ca/in-defense-of-platonic-love/): A Barbenheimer-style back-and-forth duel on ideas of friendship, from caricatures inspired by Machiavelli and Carrie Bradshaw
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- [The Faculty of Arts and Sciences nixed the Creativity and Society major. Why didn’t they ask students first?](https://thestrand.ca/the-faculty-of-arts-and-sciences-nixed-the-creativity-and-society-major-why-didnt-they-ask-students-first/): Faculty's rejection of the Creative Expression and Society major program is the latest in a series of failures of accountability
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- [Robots have feelings too: art in the digital age](https://thestrand.ca/robots-have-feelings-too-art-in-the-digital-age/): Why is everyone saying this robot looks tired?
- [Neuralink: or how I learned to stop worrying and love the computer](https://thestrand.ca/neuralink-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-computer/): Neuralink’s controversial implantable brain-computer interface is commencing its clinical trials
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- [From love to surveillance: the emergence of the Lovot](https://thestrand.ca/from-love-to-surveillance-the-emergence-of-the-lovot/): In a time of increasing AI anxiety, could these little creatures be the ones to spread love?
- [Scientists @ Vic: Emilie Nero](https://thestrand.ca/scientists-vic-emilie-nero/): The Strand: What year are you, and what are your majors? Emilie Nero: My name is Emilie Nero. I am in fourth year now, and I'm doing a double major in Biology and Health and Disease. What is your research? We've all heard of microplastics and how they're getting into very weird matrices. We've heard
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- [bluebirds weeping](https://thestrand.ca/bluebirds-weeping/): bluebirds weeping words by Anemone Van Leeuwenillustration by Maria Vidal Valdespino The city dreams of what bluebirds are,Of shadows gone missing from a stained, spotlit sky.It dreams of a ghost slipping between skyscrapers, trembling beneath the traffic lights—A ghost building nests in the dark.Visions of a something well in the eyes of the subway-goers, the upstanding, the
- [Mirror](https://thestrand.ca/mirror/): Mirror words by Zoe Smith Creppillustration by Anella Schabler When a preacher searches for God’s wisdom,He looks in the mirror and sees prayers formingOn the lips of his reflection.Calling to me was your mouth,Releasing a never-ending stream of thought,One consciousness to another as we spoke through the glass.I’ll never forget the promise of a kiss, barely
- [Concentric Circles Working](https://thestrand.ca/elementor-19461/): Concentric Circles Working words by Patrick Ignasiakillustration by Cameron Ashley out of every I wish it’ll turn
- [food poisoning](https://thestrand.ca/food-poisoning/): food poisoning words by Jeanne Polochanskyillustration by Raquel Lewin it retches me mute percolation a space in my diaphragm, excess,yolk flakes scraped to the edge ofthe place:white china at the core something’s off in the toast I had for breakfast,I think, ormaybe the jam smatteredwith lukewarm tea water
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- [The Commodification of Equity](https://thestrand.ca/the-commodification-of-equity/): Should performativity be considered progress?
- [The meaning of the Okanagan Charter for Victoria College students](https://thestrand.ca/the-meaning-of-the-okanagan-charter-for-victoria-college-students/): The Okanagan Charter is a step in the right direction, but we are in need of clarity and accountability measures
- [Beguiling gargoyles spotted around Vic](https://thestrand.ca/beguiling-gargoyles-spotted-around-vic/): Have you seen these creatures??
- [VUSAC Fall Caucus update](https://thestrand.ca/vusac-fall-caucus-update/): The biannual Caucus addressed topics from ongoing geopolitical concerns to localised issues, and reintroduced the question-and-answer period.
- [Victoria University concludes negotiations with USW Local 1998](https://thestrand.ca/victoria-university-concludes-negotiations-with-usw-local-1998/): An agreement was reached to increase wages across-the-board.
- [UofT students and Palestine](https://thestrand.ca/uoft-students-and-palestine/): The U of T student community has taken considerable steps to educate itself on the Palestinian humanitarian crisis and aid in pressuring for a ceasefire.
- [Food for thought literally](https://thestrand.ca/food-for-thought-literally/): Ketchup is the best condiment ever!
- [Cause for low exam marks (& Lake of Blood) determined!](https://thestrand.ca/cause-for-low-exam-marks-lake-of-blood-determined/): Worker found to blame and not the (very well-behaved) Eldritch Monster
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- [The last laugh](https://thestrand.ca/the-last-laugh/): A sitcom, or situational comedy, is a “serialised comedic program where each episode revolves around a different situation. In each different situation, however, there is the same cast of characters who return from episode to episode.” This style of television was at its peak in the 90s, with sitcoms such as Friends, Seinfeld, Everybody Loves
- [1989 (Taylor's Version)](https://thestrand.ca/1989-taylors-version/): The New Testament of our generation's pop Bible
- [Sustainability spotlight: UofT Trash Team and MealCare Toronto in conversation](https://thestrand.ca/sustainability-spotlight-uoft-trash-team-and-mealcare-toronto-in-conversation/): UofT's Trash Team and MealCare inspire change in community and campus
- [An Ode to Sundays](https://thestrand.ca/an-ode-to-sundays/)
- [Dreams Magazine Episode](https://thestrand.ca/dreams-magazine-episode/): In this accompaniment to The Strand's Spring 2021 Dreams Magazine, two contributors reflect on the theme and their creative process. Saba Javed discusses falling asleep, or struggling to, in the pandemic in her piece "Steps to Self-Soothing." Next, Siena Kunanec talks dreamers and their role in our lives in her work "On the Prairies, Lying
- [awful](https://thestrand.ca/awful/): awful words by Marie Kindermanillustration by Ashley Cameron spoony guise pausingon youthroughthe looking glass to thinkmy pathlinedwith peopleas admirable asalmost awful: eyes biggerthan soup spoons awful aboutthe way Ileavepeople insisting you come on timepulling my loveon a clothesline letting it dry mind
- [Chinook’s Gifts](https://thestrand.ca/chinooks-gifts/): Chinook’s Gifts words by Chloe Bantleillustration by Chelsey Wang She arrived right on timeCradling frosted memoriesTrailing bright yellow leavesSmiling like children doOn their first day of schoolShe gave me a boxDusted in last winter’s snowAnd in her whistling voice, she asked:Vas-tu bientôt retournerChez toi?It took a while to hunt down the answerIn the forests of
- [What even is MY Roman Empire?](https://thestrand.ca/what-even-is-my-roman-empire/): Not a single minute goes by where I don’t think about these moments
- [AI in the classroom](https://thestrand.ca/ai-in-the-classroom/): The debate on ChatGPT from the perspective of a kind-of not-really teacher
- [The Gen Z workspace](https://thestrand.ca/the-gen-z-workspace/): They’re ready to pick up their bags and work for your competitor In a time of record high costs of living, increasing nihilist belief systems, and a generation of kids doomed to live in their parent’s basements, it comes as little surprise that Gen Z workers are taking strides to create more dynamic and equal
- [Remembrance, revelation, and running](https://thestrand.ca/remembrance-revelation-and-running/): The R in ‘Celena’ stands for running
- [The cycles of camera culture](https://thestrand.ca/the-cycles-of-camera-culture/): Our obsession with recycling the past
- [Is oversaturation in creative industries impacting the next generation of creatives?](https://thestrand.ca/is-oversaturation-in-creative-industries-impacting-the-next-generation-of-creatives/): An interview with a Toronto creative on the effects of oversaturation and how this is redefining career success in creative industries
- [Did the COVID-19 lockdowns warp our memories?](https://thestrand.ca/did-the-covid-19-lockdowns-warp-our-memories/): Did time feel different during the COVID-19 lockdowns? Can you remember? Although the lockdowns that resulted from the global pandemic may have felt neverending as we trekked through our ‘new normal,’ it seems now that it swept past us in a confusing, jumbled-up blur. In order to determine what has caused recollections of the lockdown
- [Transgenerational imprints: The legacy of trauma and stress](https://thestrand.ca/transgenerational-imprints-the-legacy-of-trauma-and-stress/): The ghosts of your past trauma might be the methylation patterns on your DNA (amongst other things)
- [Scientists @ Vic: Sara Ciganovic](https://thestrand.ca/scientists-vic-sara-ciganovic/): The Strand: What year are you, and what are your majors? Sara Ciganovic: I’m in fourth year, and I’m doing a pathobiology specialist. What is your research? My lab studies how the brain develops and the stem cells that are creating the brain using mice models. We’ve done a lot of sequencing analysis on the
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- [To condemn colonialism: contextualising the Palestinian struggle](https://thestrand.ca/to-condemn-colonialism-contextualising-the-palestinian-struggle/): The importance of uplifting the Palestinian narrative, from here onwards
- [Historical memory and the necessity of remembrance](https://thestrand.ca/historical-memory-and-the-necessity-of-remembrance/): The efforts of Latin American societies to remember periods of internal conflict speak to the region’s desire for national conciliation
- [EDI Working Group re-established at Victoria College](https://thestrand.ca/edi-working-group-re-established-at-victoria-college/): Principal’s Office continues efforts to improve Victoria College academic programs
- [Major renovations set to occur on campus](https://thestrand.ca/major-renovations-set-to-occur-on-campus/): BoR votes to approve new capital projects at the Goldring Student Centre and E.J. Pratt Library
- [Victoria University undergoes process of renegotiating federation agreement](https://thestrand.ca/victoria-university-undergoes-process-of-renegotiating-federation-agreement/): All three federated colleges are working with the central university to determine the parameters of their relationships moving forward
- [Remembering Ryerson](https://thestrand.ca/remembering-ryerson-2/): Victoria University undergoes year-long art exhibition as it decides what to do with the former college President’s portrait
- [Remember/revel](https://thestrand.ca/remember-revel/)
- [Vic’s new force for change](https://thestrand.ca/vics-new-force-for-change/): An interview with Lesa Williams-George, Victoria University’s first Director of Equity, Inclusion & Transformative Practices
- [The vanishing Jack family](https://thestrand.ca/the-vanishing-jack-family/): What Canada’s spookiest disappearance reveals about Canada’s treatment of Indigenous Peoples
- [The launch of a social justice coalition](https://thestrand.ca/the-launch-of-a-social-justice-coalition/): Ushering in a new era of equity on campus
- [VCAA moved from Goldring space by the Dean's Office](https://thestrand.ca/vcaa-moved-from-goldring-space-by-the-deans-office/): This reduction in student group space comes alongside other recent student centre changes
- [11 PM Elegy](https://thestrand.ca/elementor-19238/): 11 PM Elegy words by Max Friedman-Coleillustration by Cameron Ashley And the buildings are breathing like beastsAnd time is imprisoned in aspicAnd the streetlights stare down in shameAnd the ever-beating tide of the city is beginning to ebb. And the car carapaces are funhouse mirrorsAnd the stumbling students huddle like penguins on the pavementAnd the
- [Fond of Our Shadow](https://thestrand.ca/fond-of-our-shadow/): Fond of Our Shadow words by Patrick Ignasiakillustration by Chelsey Wang Bite down on the umbilicus, resurrecting the road. Weathered asphalt reflects the death of birds, and their shadowselongate on: teeth extending beyond the furrowsof your body, just beginning,
- [the other side of the horizon](https://thestrand.ca/the-other-side-of-the-horizon/): the other side of the horizon words by Michael Elsasserillustration by Sharada Mujumdar no daylight between tears shed like skingrowth begetting new growthstill marked with old scarspiercing through blanket cloudsonce known to be new shapeslines begetting new linesalways creaking in through cracks in closed doorscasting shadows on the path soon to be treadplanting echoes of conversations had
- [Have we lost the horror of the supernatural?](https://thestrand.ca/have-we-lost-the-horror-of-the-supernatural/): How the modern horror genre is using science to reimagine their monsters
- [Woman in the shadows  ](https://thestrand.ca/woman-in-the-shadows/): The repressive mystification of femininity
- [Why everyone should be talking about Argentina ](https://thestrand.ca/why-everyone-should-be-talking-about-argentina/): Javier Milei and the looming shadow of the far-right in political rhetoric
- [Who’s getting sick anymore?](https://thestrand.ca/whos-getting-sick-anymore/): The erosion of academic accessibility measures from the pandemic
- [Living in my sister’s shadow](https://thestrand.ca/living-in-my-sisters-shadow/): It’s tough out here being the younger sister of a celebrity
- [What lurks in the shadows](https://thestrand.ca/what-lurks-in-the-shadows/): Spooky vibes to start your night
- [The Uncomplicated Darkness](https://thestrand.ca/the-uncomplicated-darkness/): The Uncomplicated Darkness words by Sophie Esther Ramseyillustration by Chelsey Wang I stand knocking behind this door, nails wedged into one breathless demand:that the pitiless wood keep me inert no moreand release me from time’s hands. The cold taught me all I know,paralysing my pleading limbs.The uncomplicated darkness was once my home,’til one day I woke
- [Crossed Cables](https://thestrand.ca/crossed-cables/): Crossed Cables words by Patrick Ignasiakillustration by Anella Schabler yesterday, nothing quite moved, and yet,sweeping the entire frequency range, wellit’s mostly semantics, butcurlicues of waveform-buzz seemjust to touch lines of sight, and to clarify,let’s just say I’ve made quite the mess ofthe sugar-phosphate backbone, I mean,for now, leave it at ransomware, unless,do you ever feel
- [Poet/Mother/Girl](https://thestrand.ca/poet-mother-girl/): Poet/Mother/Girl words by Zoe Smith Creppillustration by Maria Vidal Valdespino They diagnosed meAs a fantastical wild-whimsied witch—Those who hide behind their loversIn shelters decorated with fancy words of devotion.I’ve craved like they do,But my love poems do not carry the same weightNo matter how many different ways I birth themIn labour, I’ve delivered rhyming couplets
- [Mojo Dojo Casa House of your nightmares](https://thestrand.ca/mojo-dojo-casa-house-of-your-nightmares/): Haunted houses are super fun to live in, right?
- [Night at Robarts: a cautionary tale](https://thestrand.ca/night-at-robarts-a-cautionary-tale/): This could be you!
- [16 questions with Peter Pan’s Shadow](https://thestrand.ca/16-questions-with-peter-pans-shadow/): It’s always who is Peter Pan’s Shadow and never HOW is Peter Pan’s Shadow…
- [Angry Girl Music](https://thestrand.ca/angry-girl-music/)
- [The Strand's Ultimate Fall Playlist](https://thestrand.ca/the-strands-ultimate-fall-playlist/)
- [back to campus, dodging bikers](https://thestrand.ca/back-to-campus-dodging-bikers/)
- [Horror has an ableism problem](https://thestrand.ca/horror-has-an-ableism-problem/): Portrayal of disability in horror
- [Creepy things in nature](https://thestrand.ca/creepy-things-in-nature/): Don’t end up on a crow’s bad side
- [CALLING ALL SCEPTICS: CELENA DEBUNKS IT](https://thestrand.ca/calling-all-sceptics-celena-debunks-it/): no way these are real
- [Misinformation in the golden age of innovation](https://thestrand.ca/misinformation-in-the-golden-age-of-innovation/): Louis Pasteur rolls in his grave every time someone mentions raw milk
- [The internet is redefining the term ‘girlhood’](https://thestrand.ca/the-internet-is-redefining-the-term-girlhood/): Ballet flats are stepping back out of the shadows
- [Scientists @ Vic: Maximus Caron](https://thestrand.ca/scientists-vic-maximus-caron/): The Strand: What year are you and what are your majors? Maximus Caron: I'm in fourth year and my majors are forest conservation and human geography, and then I have a minor in political science. What is your research? I was working with the City of Mississauga as an invasive species forester and summer student.
- [Toronto community rallies for trans rights and autonomy](https://thestrand.ca/toronto-community-rallies-for-trans-rights-and-autonomy/): Community members gathered in solidarity outside the US Consulate in light of recent anti-trans legislation
- [morning commute](https://thestrand.ca/morning-commute/): morning commute words by Andrea Perezphoto by Sara Qadoumi what a strange and awful thing it is,to stand at the edge of a subway platform.overpriced caffeine in hand,worries in my shoulders,how can I learn to talk to my father?looking up at the flatscreen tv on the dirty ttc walls:the one year anniversary of a war
- [You cannot convince me otherwise!](https://thestrand.ca/you-cannot-convince-me-otherwise/): Five things that I believe—without a shadow of a doubt—are true, until proven otherwise
- [Credits for Spring 2023 Magazine — Disaster](https://thestrand.ca/credits-for-spring-2023-magazine-disaster/)
- [Nuit Blanche and the future of art](https://thestrand.ca/nuit-blanche-and-the-future-of-art/): In a world of scepticism about the future of art, Nuit Blanche brings us together in the present
- [Standing on grass in an orange sea: getting a taste for Canadian politics](https://thestrand.ca/standing-on-grass-in-an-orange-sea-getting-a-taste-for-canadian-politics/): One American student’s perspective at a labour march in Toronto
- [Poems for the sceptic](https://thestrand.ca/poems-for-the-sceptic/): Just some food for thought
- [Scientists @ Vic: Naomi](https://thestrand.ca/scientists-vic-naomi/): The Strand: What year are you and what are your majors? Naomi: I’m going into third year, and my major is psychology. What is your research? There's something that's been studied for a long time with a probe tone method that's pretty well known—people widely agree on certain sounds to fit with a musical tonality.
- [Victoria University announces plans to sell oil well](https://thestrand.ca/victoria-university-announces-plans-to-sell-oil-well/): Board of Regents decision comes after years of student calls to divest the university's holdings in fossil fuels
- [The sceptic's role in social change](https://thestrand.ca/the-sceptics-role-in-social-change/): Examining scepticism in activism
- [The art of healthy scepticism](https://thestrand.ca/the-art-of-healthy-scepticism/): Balancing doubt and open-mindedness
- [Lessons on Authority: from the US to our front door](https://thestrand.ca/lessons-on-authority-from-the-us-to-our-front-door/): Questioning power and the danger of uncritical non-acceptance
- [Watering hole woes](https://thestrand.ca/watering-hole-woes/): Why the lack of student bars on campus is detrimental to student life
- [Self-diagnosing: navigating the fine line](https://thestrand.ca/self-diagnosing-navigating-the-fine-line/): Navigating the hazards of self-diagnosis in the Digital Age
- [Zoos: the light and the dark](https://thestrand.ca/zoos-the-light-and-the-dark/): Why the public should remain sceptical about zoos
- [Scientists @ Vic: Silas Peters](https://thestrand.ca/scientists-vic-silas-peters/): This year I am introducing a new segment to the Science section, where I will be interviewing a student who has done science research at UofT. This gives them a chance to share their work and show other students the types of research that exist at the university. If you are interested in being interviewed,
- [A Scottish Autumn Wednesday](https://thestrand.ca/a-scottish-autumn-wednesday/): A Scottish Autumn Wednesday words by Devarya Singhania Under the Scottish August air,bathed in the yellow and tangerine of leaves,she checks the road for puddles, butis left with home’s call—a home she grieves—on Wednesday’s longer eve. Those Indian summers when didi called her prettyand troubled her with sour lemonade:the light, chill and yellow, would see
- [In it for the long haul](https://thestrand.ca/in-it-for-the-long-haul/): For many of us, the COVID-19 pandemic hit at a pivotal moment in our lives. Whether this was high school graduation, entering or finishing university, or in the middle of our academic careers, we all felt the impacts as restrictions tightened and Facetime calls became the norm instead of face-to-face conversations. When the 2022 to
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- [The *only* campus guide that matters](https://thestrand.ca/the-only-campus-guide-that-matters/): The best bathrooms on campus so you know where to go! (for real)
- [Homecoming](https://thestrand.ca/homecoming/): Homecoming words by Marie Kindermanillustration by Maria Vidal Valdespino Last night I went to senior homecoming as a college student. With my mother as my date.We decorated the gymnasium together.Handmade streamers, balloons, twinkle lights, a photo booth.I drew her raffle ticket.Gave her the prize I made (for her).We danced through the eras.Until my spotify stopped
- [The writers’ and actors’ strikes, explained](https://thestrand.ca/the-writers-and-actors-strikes-explained/): What it means for the film community in Toronto
- [Hollywood's continued exclusion of the contributions of marginalised individuals](https://thestrand.ca/hollywoods-continued-exclusion-of-the-contributions-of-marginalised-individuals/): A critique of Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer
- [Euro bummer](https://thestrand.ca/euro-bummer/): How the popular “Euro Summer” aesthetic collides with our dying planet
- [Greta Gerwig's Barbie is as fun and white as Ryan Gosling's bleached hair](https://thestrand.ca/greta-gerwigs-barbie-is-as-fun-and-white-as-ryan-goslings-bleached-hair/): White, consumerist feminism in Hollywood
- [Those Who Need Rent Control, and Those Who Control Rent](https://thestrand.ca/those-who-need-rent-control-and-those-who-control-rent/): The Toronto Tenant Strike
- [At least we can all agree about aliens](https://thestrand.ca/at-least-we-can-all-agree-about-aliens/): How the Congressional UFO Hearings inspired bipartisanship
- [The Return](https://thestrand.ca/the-return/): A quick re-introduction to The Strand
- [Vic's divestment was a student win, but it wasn't enough](https://thestrand.ca/vics-divestment-was-a-student-win-but-it-wasnt-enough/): A reflection on the Old Vic Occupation, the Board of Regents’ decision, and where we must go next
- [Overcoming first-year jitters](https://thestrand.ca/overcoming-first-year-jitters/): How do UofT students cope with anxieties and stresses? What are the academic and social supports?
- [r/UofT is my academic advisor](https://thestrand.ca/r-uoft-is-my-academic-advisor/): Social media for student services, benefits and disadvantages of the r/UofT
- [“Why would anyone attend Orientation?”](https://thestrand.ca/why-would-anyone-attend-orientation/): Finding community through orientation
- [new light-up pink shoes](https://thestrand.ca/new-light-up-pink-shoes/): new light-up pink shoes words by Andrea Perezillustration by Cameron Ashley Mom bought them yesterday.glittery shoelaces bounce up and upsidedown every time they hit the hopscotch.my heart is full of vanilla soft serve and glow-in-the-dark pencil crayons.the lights from my shoes dance with the dandelions. the wind changes suddenly and a strand slips out ofthe
- [The realest moments at UofT St. George](https://thestrand.ca/the-realest-moments-at-uoft-st-george/): The good, the bad, and the ugly…
- [UofT students begin occupation of Victoria College](https://thestrand.ca/uoft-students-begin-occupation-of-victoria-college/): ‘All Eyes on Vic’ to divest from fossil fuels
- [Stories @ Vic: A day in the life of being a Hater](https://thestrand.ca/stories-vic-a-day-in-the-life-of-being-a-hater/): Do you like Phil Collins ?
- [Have you seen these?!?](https://thestrand.ca/have-you-seen-these/): Underappreciated movies YOU have to watch before you die
- [This is real, this is <i>The Strand</i> Vol. 65](https://thestrand.ca/this-is-real-this-is-the-strand-vol-65/): Mitchie Torres wishes she was this real
- [Influencers are <i>Real</i>](https://thestrand.ca/influencers-are-real/): A guide to becoming like your favourite influencer
- [Reflecting on the Oscars 2023](https://thestrand.ca/reflecting-on-the-oscars-2023/): The displays of wealth on the red carpet exhaust me, but there was a lot to celebrate this year!
- [Romantic situationship](https://thestrand.ca/romantic-situationship/): “It’s just vibes”
- [Best virtual world games, according to <i>The Strand's</i> most chronically online writer](https://thestrand.ca/best-virtual-world-games-according-to-the-strands-most-chronically-online-writer/): The consequences of unlimited screen time
- [Fame or Lame? (AI’s version)](https://thestrand.ca/fame-or-lame-ais-version/): Tried and tested real methods to become famous—thanks, ChatGPT!
- [Truth unboxed: the Earth is flat!](https://thestrand.ca/truth-unboxed-the-earth-is-flat/): A highly investigative take on Flat Earth, and a recognition of the truths of Flat Earthers from around the globe
- [Half-heartedness](https://thestrand.ca/half-heartedness/): Half-heartedness sometimes i feel likemy life is going nowherethough i want to live fully satisfied i do not know how to go on properly it becomes a circle, a circle of the tornado that will tear the future apart unknowinglyliving by halveswill destroy you. Model: Raquel Lewin Words by Kelsey Ngan Phung Visual team: Kelsey Ngan Phung, Nicholas Tam,
- [This is not a place of honour.](https://thestrand.ca/this-is-not-a-place-of-honour/): This is not a place of honour words by Kieran Guimondillustration by Chelsey Wang In the summer of 2019, my friend and I broke into an abandoned building. Maybe saying we ‘broke in’ is a bit of an exaggeration; there was a piece of the fence that was busted. We crawled under it and from there
- [all into one](https://thestrand.ca/all-into-one/): all into one words and illustration by Ella Spitzer-Stephan The skin of a peach is so soft, too soft softer than mine, softer than the hair that grows behind a cat’s ear— Humanise the flesh of a fruit recognise it as something equally as living as moving as my legs—your arms. Its blood runs in
- [<strong>pyrrhus retires from war</strong>](https://thestrand.ca/pyrrhus-retires-from-war/): pyrrhus retires from war words by Namah Jaggiillustration by Jennifer Fong-Li “If we are victorious in one more battle with the Romans, we shall be utterly ruined.” –Plutarch i love like a broken thermostat.like it has no repercussions,like we have gas to last a lifetimeand the winter is invincible.i promise you i am as warm-blooded as they
- [The End of Time](https://thestrand.ca/the-end-of-time/): artwork by Chelsea Wang
- [<strong>PARTY POST-MORTEM</strong>](https://thestrand.ca/party-post-mortem/): PARTY POST-MORTEM words by Brooke Collinsillustration by Natalie Song The party passed peacefullyIn the late hours of the night.A friend of a friend clinging to the dark,Swaddled by the door. Day breaksAnd we emergeFrom Glitter-stained pillowcases,Hanging over each other on the 502,Snaking towards a diner reeking of detergent. An investigation occurs over cracking vinylAnd scrambled eggs that pack
- [Crashing](https://thestrand.ca/crashing/): Crashing words by Romina Emtyaziillustration by Faith Dong Whenever someone asks me to think about the personal meaning of a word, I immediately assume that I need to come up with some remote, allusive, or metaphorical definition. But when it comes to disaster, the only idea that comes to my mind is its most redundant
- [Consequence](https://thestrand.ca/consequence/): Consequence words by Ben Murphyillustration by Raquel Lewin The haze is finally gone,Vanished with the bang of a gun And an upset stomach.It twirled and swirled its way through night till daybreak,When the crimson sun arrived againRaining hellfire down on this parasitic host. But it is gone.For now.Until the pressure of the moment builds hazinessBack into the
- [The Novena of Tío Mauro](https://thestrand.ca/the-novena-of-tio-mauro/): The Novena of Tío Mauro words and photo by Michael Mejia I’ve spent the last few months reflecting on everything that’s happened to bring me to this point. It’s been a bittersweet recollection. If you were in Toronto in the late autumn of 2020, you might recall that Ontario reopened businesses and workplaces for a
- [Junkyard Circus](https://thestrand.ca/junkyard-circus/): Junkyard Circus words by Max Leesillustration by Jennifer Fong-Li It begins with a silencebeneath the tinted skywhere only a word or two tumble out a slot in the doorand risk being lost in the wind. Deadbeats wander and pick through immature mountains of debris,old books and warped jeans piled on top ofburnt pages of journals and graves for dogs. The train
- [petersburg](https://thestrand.ca/petersburg/): petersburg words by Gillian Chapmanillustration by Sharada Mujumdar here it comes— the edges of my frail mind falter and fade. dreadful closet walls, dirty and mangled, sick yellow paper, turn, twist, tighten, swallow whole. through the dingy apartment esophagus i am thrown into the stomach of the street suffocating summer sweat like swirling bile.in the sky, the sweltering sun sighs, settling down for
- [A Ripple Through Life](https://thestrand.ca/a-ripple-through-life/): A Ripple Through Life words by Sakura Armstrongillustration by Callie Silverton The Quake [03/11/2011] The windows were going to pop out of the car’s frame. The shaking caused them to swell in and out with each quake as if the vehicle were breathing, hyperventilating, to the point where the strain on the glass was almost
- [The End.](https://thestrand.ca/the-end/): The End. words by Rachel Suginphoto by Kelsey Phung It was all so perfect once,I can barely remember it now. Apparently it makes me stronger, “Disaster grows character”But the only thing I see sprouting are weeds.And not even the pretty ones—no dandelions, Just regular old grass. It’s all so gut-punching and earth-shattering,But for character? If that’s all I wanted, I
- [There's a Baby Within the Beast](https://thestrand.ca/theres-a-baby-within-the-beast/): There's a Baby Within the Beast words by Kalliopé Anvar McCallillustration by Chelsea Wang For the children of Iran.I wrote this poem after I saw a baby in a demonstration in Toronto while protesting the murder of Jîna Mahsa Aminî . The protest was very difficult emotionally; everyone was crying, screaming, grieving in unison.
- [It’s okay to believe in ghosts](https://thestrand.ca/its-okay-to-believe-in-ghosts/): It’s okay to believe in ghosts words by Eugene Kimphotos by Nicholas Tam and Kelsey Ngan Phungmodelling by Anh Minh Le “Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit – all of these
- [Cover Illustrations — Disaster magazine](https://thestrand.ca/covers/): Covers illustrations by Shelley Yao
- [Credits for Fall 2022 Magazine — Fluidity](https://thestrand.ca/credits-for-fall-2022-magazine-fluidity/)
- [Satire: UofT student protests to free Andrew Tate from prison](https://thestrand.ca/satire-uoft-student-protests-to-free-andrew-tate-from-prison/): The past two and a half months have been a tragic time for 20-year-old males across the world—including this engineering student whose only goal is to free his hero from jail
- [An Authoritative List](https://thestrand.ca/an-authoritative-list/): She let me hit it because I’m goofy… She let you hit it because you followed my authoritative list:She’s wonking on my willy ‘til I chocolate factoryShe’s doofen on my shmirtz ‘til I incorporate her evilShe’s robbing on my barts ‘til I commShe’s cranning on my berry ‘til I juiceShe’s stroganoff my beef… ‘til I cum
- [<i>Liminality</i>](https://thestrand.ca/liminality/): to catch a bus in its natural habitat, you must stay alert and aware. these are fickle, erratic beasts, ostensibly diurnal, occasionally nocturnal, their migration patterns known to be predictably unpredictable.despite their size, they are relatively docile creatures—a disposition which has led to the slow erosion of their position in the food chain.competition is fierce.you
- [Oh to be Lumpy Yogurt on a Bright Winter Day](https://thestrand.ca/__trashed/): Lumpy yogurt, oh so sour Winter’s chill, we must endure In the recycling bin, a cookie crumbles Cilantro sprouts on the farm, humbles But in the cliché camp of love Two male peacocks soar above Their feathers dance, their hearts ablaze Filibustered by society’s ways If Rupi Kaur were an MRA She’d still
- [A Jokes Comic](https://thestrand.ca/a-jokes-comic/)
- [Dean of Shmoooodents Kenneth Palace forces vegan students to eat chicken nuggets during mental health crises](https://thestrand.ca/dean-of-shmoooodents-kenneth-palace-forces-vegan-students-to-eat-chicken-nuggets-during-mental-health-crises/): ‘Chickening’ practices revealed in DOOD report
- [Jubilation and dismay as Vic reckons with the end of SOOSAC](https://thestrand.ca/jubilation-and-dismay-as-vic-reckons-with-the-end-of-soosac/): Real student testimony, even realer president
- [BREAKING: Vol. 65 EICs removed & replaced](https://thestrand.ca/breaking-vol-65-eics-removed-replaced/): “They weren’t real enough.”
- [Satire: Government spy pigeons go on strike](https://thestrand.ca/satire-government-spy-pigeons-go-on-strike/): Toronto’s winged rats unionise, demand better working conditions
- [Satire: The anti-pasta antipasto](https://thestrand.ca/satire-the-anti-pasta-antipasto/): Spaghetti and lasagne declared 'not pasta' at UofT
- [Satire: VUSAC election results](https://thestrand.ca/satire-vusac-election-results/): Results are in, and the new council is definitely going to shake things up at Victoria College
- [America's sex symbol is a tortured woman](https://thestrand.ca/seasick-copy/): America's sex symbol is a tortured woman words by Kalliopé Anvar McCallillustration by Shelley Yao To ‘cure’ me after my psychotic break, my cousin Drew gave the keys to his L.A. luxury fucking condo so I could get some R & R, his words, not mine.When I picked up the keys from the balding caretaker,
- [This Bus Stop Was a Coral Reef Once](https://thestrand.ca/this-bus-stop-was-a-coral-reef-once/)
- [Not your aesthetic](https://thestrand.ca/not-your-aesthetic/): Why mental illness is never pretty
- [To experience Canadian culture, explore Ontario’s thriving scene of Francophone theatre](https://thestrand.ca/to-experience-canadian-culture-explore-ontarios-thriving-scene-of-francophone-theatre/): There are more things in heaven and Earth, than are dreamt of in your Anglophone dramaturgy
- [Outdoing the doer and scamming the scammer](https://thestrand.ca/outdoing-the-doer-and-scamming-the-scammer/): A guide to creatively—and safely—responding to scam Instagram DMs
- [Waiting for Godiva](https://thestrand.ca/waiting-for-godiva/): Valentine's Day at Burwash Dining Hall brings up many feelings—and creates a culinary caper
- [How to win your roomie prank war in ten days](https://thestrand.ca/how-to-win-your-roomie-prank-war-in-ten-days/): Pickle-juicing your roommate’s rum and coke, and other juicy (but harmless) pranks to spice up your apartment life
- [Move over, Prince Harry—there's a new writer in town](https://thestrand.ca/move-over-prince-harry-theres-a-new-writer-in-town/): Spare your time and read my memoir instead!
- [Waves of disaster: the disastrous origins and impacts of the earthquakes bordering Turkey and Syria](https://thestrand.ca/waves-of-disaster-the-disastrous-origins-and-impacts-of-the-earthquakes-bordering-turkey-and-syria/): "We are witnessing the worst natural disaster in the WHO European Region for a century”
- [I can't stand Colleen Hoover](https://thestrand.ca/i-cant-stand-colleen-hoover/): Why we need to talk about BookTok, reading, and problematic authors
- [Your therapist was right](https://thestrand.ca/your-therapist-was-right/): Five stereotypical mental health tips that actually work
- [Exploring the world of life science research](https://thestrand.ca/exploring-the-world-of-life-science-research/): An interview with the founder of Victoria College’s Life Science Research Seminars
- [An interview with Professor James Reilly](https://thestrand.ca/an-interview-with-professor-james-reilly/): Reflections on research in the Middle East and teaching at the University of Toronto for over three decades
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- [Stories @Vic: interview with Brynn Bonne, creator of <i>Jackes and Jills</i>](https://thestrand.ca/stories-vic-interview-with-brynn-bonne-creator-of-jackes-and-jills/): VCDS takes UofT Drama Fest
- [‘Hot Girl Books’](https://thestrand.ca/hot-girl-books/): How is twenty-first century femininity being re-defined by popular literature?
- [[Insert title here]](https://thestrand.ca/insert-title-here/): Nooo we’re not gonna forget to come up with a title, we’ll just do it once we’re not drowning in assignments and deadlines…
- [John Tory’s resignation leads to upcoming by-election in Toronto](https://thestrand.ca/john-torys-resignation-leads-to-upcoming-by-election-in-toronto/): How Ford and Tory’s connection affects Toronto politics
- [Student journalists meet at NASH85 conference in Hamilton](https://thestrand.ca/student-journalists-meet-at-nash85-conference-in-hamilton/): Annual conference brings together student publications from across Canada
- [Inferno](https://thestrand.ca/inferno/): I am not asking for much—A kiss on the cheek, a whisper of a secret.Perhaps I am the Devil’s daughter—Lust drunk and excruciating on all dimensions but one.I am demonic with angelic tendencies.I am feather light and pretty—the blue eyed kind.The favourite grandchild, if only because of my domesticity.Angel cake cupcakes and sprinkled vanilla frosting
- [Achilles to Patroclus](https://thestrand.ca/achilles-to-patroclus/): The ballads boast of my senseless rage, of wailing mothers and tortured breaths, of corpse-littered fields painted crimson red, But the poets never mention you in their songs, my love, you, who held my trembling warrior heart in your hands, you, who would lull away the soldier’s angry wounds and murmur sweet words of home
- [Nightlife and the formed family](https://thestrand.ca/nightlife-and-the-formed-family/): Kasa’s “2ACTIVE” and how our friendship sets me free
- [The end of Stephenson House](https://thestrand.ca/the-end-of-stephenson-house/): Unaffordable housing at Vic
- [Love won’t fix you](https://thestrand.ca/love-wont-fix-you/): On the life and death of my Cinderella complex
- [Politics in print](https://thestrand.ca/politics-in-print/): How (unchecked) campus newspapers are endangering UofT communities—a response to Trinity Times and the safety of Hong Kong students
- [Date <i>The Strand</i>](https://thestrand.ca/date-the-strand-6/): Our guide to yearning your way through Valentine’s day
- [GROCERIES](https://thestrand.ca/groceries/): GROCERIES By Sophie van Dalen – Kale– Pears– Yoghurt– Bananas– Carrots– Hummus– Rice cakes– Almond butter– Cannellini beans– Trying to remember what it used to be like– Walking down the aisles– With happy hunger– Your hand holding mine– We used to go to the grocery store– You gave me an appetite– I’d eat whatever you’d feed
- [Nesting](https://thestrand.ca/nesting/): Nesting By Sam Rosati Martin Watch my eyes shimmer —in the ice with you.—I want your song, your singing. Turn the sun off,tenderize [me],lay your voices on my stomach. Feed mebranches and twigs—splinters— I have been abandoned by an owl who leftplastic spoons—twisted into the shape of her home. Take yourself into me[]pick me apart and clutch— dig into me,make me into a placebeyond
- [Haze](https://thestrand.ca/haze/): Haze By Zoe Crepp There’s some kind of mask covering your face, But I can see that bright flush creeping beneath the powder When I tell you where I think we should go. Those baby doll eyes, all droopy 1930s— Complete with mascara-darkened lashes, batting themselves at me, And that pouty bottom lip sliping and sliding
- [Stories @ Vic: Secrets to self-love](https://thestrand.ca/stories-vic-secrets-to-self-love/): Self-love has become an all-too-familiar word, but what do folks actually think about it? In response to this, I interviewed Victoria College students about their views on self-love and how they practise it. “I think self-love is beautiful,” says Mikaela Moore, a fifth-year student majoring in history and English (and the Associate Arts and Culture
- [Ranking TikTok’s dating trends](https://thestrand.ca/ranking-tiktoks-dating-trends/): The Strand’s four best and worst dating trends on TikTok
- [The power of queer BIPOC representation in cinema](https://thestrand.ca/the-power-of-queer-bipoc-representation-in-cinema/): Laundry and taxes, rocks with eyes, and everything bagels
- [Love in other languages](https://thestrand.ca/love-in-other-languages/): Underrated foreign-language films to watch for Valentine’s Day
- [Galentine’s Day: powerful or patronising?](https://thestrand.ca/galentines-day-powerful-or-patronising/): A day for celebrating unromantic love
- [The <i>feline</i> persuasion](https://thestrand.ca/the-feline-persuasion/): Everyone’s on dating apps, even The Strand’s Vol.65 mascot
- [High profile acts of violence on TTC create fear among riders](https://thestrand.ca/high-profile-acts-of-violence-on-ttc-create-fear-among-riders/): Increased police presence causes mixed reactions
- [Ontario expands One Stop Talk service and Youth Wellness Hubs](https://thestrand.ca/ontario-expands-one-stop-talk-service-and-youth-wellness-hubs/): How the province is responding to widespread need for mental health services
- [Toronto mayor John Tory announces resignation](https://thestrand.ca/toronto-mayor-john-tory-announces-resignation/): Why Tory is stepping down and what happens next
- [Stop! Look! And Vaccinate](https://thestrand.ca/stop-look-and-vaccinate/): A look at the Gardasil-9 HPV vaccine
- [The trials and tribulations of online dating](https://thestrand.ca/the-trials-and-tribulations-of-online-dating/): Online dating is not for the faint of heart (me)
- [Decentring romance](https://thestrand.ca/decentring-romance/): How amatonormativity affects our lives and relationships
- [Can’t help falling in love—but why?](https://thestrand.ca/cant-help-falling-in-love-but-why/): Exploring the psychology behind our love interests and understanding ‘love at first sight’
- [The medical history of gender transition](https://thestrand.ca/the-medical-history-of-gender-transition/): A brief overview of procedures from the 1930s to today
- [Dear Stranded: what do I do if my CompSci boyfriend won’t leave Robarts?](https://thestrand.ca/dear-stranded-what-do-i-do-if-my-compsci-boyfriend-wont-leave-robarts/): Modern love advice for the modern student
- [What NOT to do on a first date](https://thestrand.ca/what-not-to-do-on-a-first-date/): *NOT CLICKBAIT* THESE ACTUALLY HAPPENED; DON’T ASK, I DON’T KNOW HOW
- [So, what do you know about love?](https://thestrand.ca/so-what-do-you-know-about-love/): Wanna know what love is? Then you’ve come to the right place!
- [My first boyfriend, break-up, and my entry into the porn industry](https://thestrand.ca/my-first-boyfriend-break-up-and-my-entry-into-the-porn-industry/): I met Babybel123456 on moviestarplanet.com. He wore fluffy boots and shutter shades—what a hottie! My only concern was that ‘Babybel’ was a level five moviestar, while I was a level eight. However, we high-level moviestars often have to settle; male moviestars were scarce, and I didn’t know I was gay yet. Similar to other online
- [bittersweet candies](https://thestrand.ca/bittersweet-candies/): bittersweet candies By Devarya Singhania there were pit stops whichreminded meof a time to escapefrom the monstrosityof Raman’s futile attackson the imperfect curvaturetranscending above my belly,as the few spearedmarks made their appearance;it’s a circus of my miserytranslated into fifteen languagesby each member in my classas the four soldiers by my sidefought for its censorship,knowing all
- [10 ways to take care of your mental health without shelling out $255 per week for the therapy you desperately need](https://thestrand.ca/10-ways-to-take-care-of-your-mental-health-without-shelling-out-255-per-week-for-the-therapy-you-desperately-need/): A practical guide for the prudent student
- [PODCAST: <i>The Guestlist</i>](https://thestrand.ca/podcast-the-guestlist/): The fitness episode
- [An APPLE a day keeps the DOCTOR away?](https://thestrand.ca/an-apple-a-day-keeps-the-doctor-away/): One weird trick Big Pharma DOESN’T want you to know.
- [You’re Alice but this isn’t Wonderland (it’s your For You page):](https://thestrand.ca/youre-alice-but-this-isnt-wonderland-its-your-for-you-page/): Exploring the link between TikTok & Escapism
- [Victoria College clubs spent less than half their fall-term budgets. What happened?](https://thestrand.ca/victoria-college-clubs-spent-less-than-half-their-fall-term-budgets-what-happened/): “Systemic issue” of Vic student fees not being spent
- [Capitalism, Ableism, and the Glamorization of Productivity](https://thestrand.ca/capitalism-ableism-and-the-glamorization-of-productivity/): Content warning: mentions of the Nazi regime Obtaining an ADHD diagnosis was hard. The stigma surrounding cognitive disabilities and the endless hoops the medical system made me jump through certainly contributed, but the worst part was everyone around me insisting that I was faking it and that nothing was truly wrong with me. The first
- [Housing in 2023: What to expect](https://thestrand.ca/housing-in-2023-what-to-expect/): Learning from recent changes in property values
- [Here’s what you need to know about Canada’s new alcohol guidelines](https://thestrand.ca/heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-canadas-new-alcohol-guidelines/): The latest stats are in on drinking—and they’re pretty dire.
- [Isn’t there something so comforting about <i>The Shining</i>?](https://thestrand.ca/isnt-there-something-so-comforting-about-the-shining/): Move over rom-coms, horror movies are the new comfort movies.
- [The medicalisation of disability](https://thestrand.ca/the-medicalisation-of-disability/): The neurodiversity paradigm challenges traditional views of autism and other conditions
- [Stories @ Vic: All For wellness](https://thestrand.ca/stories-vic-all-for-wellness/): Why knitting (or any type of extra-curricular) is essential for a student’s well being
- [Rise and Grind!](https://thestrand.ca/rise-and-grind/): Is waking up early the key to success? Our EA Sakura puts it to the test
- [Conversations with yourself](https://thestrand.ca/conversations-with-yourself/): Why journaling is the ultimate form of self-care
- [The untold truth of TikTok beauty trends](https://thestrand.ca/the-untold-truth-of-tiktok-beauty-trends/): Where do popular wellness aesthetics actually come from?
- [Our year of (un)wellness and chaos](https://thestrand.ca/our-year-of-unwellness-and-chaos/): Relaxation? We hardly know her
- [Vic’s sp(oil)ed reputation](https://thestrand.ca/vics-spoiled-reputation/): On Vic’s investments, student testimonies, and The Strand’s stance
- [What is your robot name?](https://thestrand.ca/what-is-your-robot-name/)
- [The cryptics of cryptocurrency](https://thestrand.ca/the-cryptics-of-cryptocurrency/): Don’t get crypto? Don’t worry, nobody does!
- [Desire for Profitability Drives Twitter’s Steep Decline](https://thestrand.ca/desire-for-profitability-drives-twitters-steep-decline/): Musk announces more political advertising and other measures. How far will he go?
- [Seven totally achievable resolutions to kick off 2023](https://thestrand.ca/seven-totally-achievable-resolutions-to-kick-off-2023/): Trade in those old, stereotypical New Year's resolutions and try these instead!
- [2023 Ins and Outs](https://thestrand.ca/2023-ins-and-outs/): From UofT’s self-declared trend forecaster
- [The Landmark Project: Geoexchange field and new beginnings](https://thestrand.ca/the-landmark-project-geoexchange-field-and-new-beginnings/): UofT taking steps to create a more inviting and beautiful campus
- [Climate change at the movies](https://thestrand.ca/climate-change-at-the-movies/): What Avatar: The Way of Water Tells Us About Our Planet
- [Students struggle with waiting for final grades](https://thestrand.ca/students-struggle-with-waiting-for-final-grades/): UofT won’t admit to delays in Fall term grade posting; students suspect otherwise
- [Blasting into 2023](https://thestrand.ca/blasting-into-2023/): On the globe’s, Vic’s, and The Strand’s climates
- [Why is Art a Recurrent Motif Across Time and Space?](https://thestrand.ca/why-is-art-a-recurrent-motif-across-time-and-space/): In our past, present and future society
- [The future of Literature](https://thestrand.ca/the-future-of-literature/): The printed page’s enduring appeal
- [Strand readers X alien music](https://thestrand.ca/strand-readers-x-alien-music/): This is what space sounds like
- [A letter to my fourth year self](https://thestrand.ca/a-letter-to-my-fourth-year-self/): Dear Sakura, When we went to the shrine for New Year’s around two weeks ago, Mommy told us that our Yakudoshi is coming up. According to traditional Japanese beliefs, there are three unlucky ages in every person's lifetime called Yakudoshi. For us, the ages are 19, 33, and 37. The years surrounding those ages aren’t
- [Cityscapes](https://thestrand.ca/cityscapes/): The heartland howls to June bugs’ cries –metallic giants, they chirp and crawlthrough mazes of boxes that grow straight upfrom ground that bears the nests of stone. Below, the millipede rushes to work,it skids to a stop and opens its mouthsfor clouds of prey that billow and flow,rushing in-out, again and again. But at night, when the
- [La Lucila](https://thestrand.ca/la-lucila/): Crossing the border between one quintana and the nextWe move from the wild to the obsceneOf private wetlands and forestry, mortar and concreteUp against the golden River of Silver shoreline, a breathing carcinogenIt funnels the borderland between our place and the sun. There’s a Starbucks now, north of the railway lineWhere los Americanos live.
- [The Strand’s 2023 resolutions](https://thestrand.ca/the-strands-2023-resolutions/): Our hopes, dreams, and aspirations for this year
- [Fluidity and Change](https://thestrand.ca/fluidity-and-change/): Fluidity and Change words by faith wershbaillustration by yoon-ji kweon When I was two, I had a green fleece onesie that I wore non-stop. It practically became part of my body, blurring the boundary between where I ended and where the harsh, outer world began. My mom tells me that she had to wait until
- [Making peace with the ocean](https://thestrand.ca/making-peace-with-the-ocean/): Making Peace with the Ocean words and photo by subhi jha Over hot cups of tea, my friends and I sit in a quiet circle late into the night. The clock reads ten past three, and at 21 years of age, I am still fearful it is past my bedtime. It is a swift realisation
- [the blue to come home to](https://thestrand.ca/the-blue-to-come-home-to/)
- [A Visual Concept](https://thestrand.ca/a-visual-concept/): A Visual Concept creative and retouch: kelsey ngan phungphotographer: nicholas tammodel: joyce khanh linh nguyenmake-up artist: karsen patterson
- [Fall 2022 Magazine — Covers of Fluidity](https://thestrand.ca/fall-2022-magazine-covers-of-fluidity/): Covers creative & retouch: kelsey phungphotographer: nicholas tammodel: nicolette kemerer
- [The fluidity of literacy, and why it matters in Canada](https://thestrand.ca/the-fluidity-of-literacy-and-why-it-matters-in-canada/): The fluidity of literacy, and why it matters in Canada words by samir mechelillustration by july hu Literacy is typically taken for granted in most countries in the twenty-first century, and, at first glance, the data seem to support this. There are only 13 countries where a majority of the adult population remains illiterate [1],
- [Brain so bonkers, Willy Wonkers](https://thestrand.ca/brain-so-bonkers-willy-wonkers/): Brain so bonkers, Willy Wonkers Maybe she was born with it, maybe it’s her ADHD prescription words by geetanjali kapreillustration by arthur hamdani I didn’t believe I had ADHD ‘till I got on the meds. 36 mg of Concerta, take after meals. The bottle of pills sat unopened on my desk for two weeks. This was my Pandora’s
- [Haikus](https://thestrand.ca/haikus/)
- [The Death of a Quizmos](https://thestrand.ca/the-death-of-a-quizmos/): The Death of a words and photo by ben murphy Derelict but dancing,He stands somewhere in between A grimace and a grin.What is he thinking?The posters on his window Are rendered inconsequential. Every sale couldn’t Keep the doors open,Couldn’t keep the children smiling.There’s a hole in the wall,His battle wound,A stinging reminder that he lostTo the one across the
- [Don't Flail](https://thestrand.ca/dont-flail/): Don't Flail words by eugene kimillustration by callie silverton A myriad of mechanical parts work in tandem, each performing a unique duty in order to produce a singular, unified movement, the summation of the synchronicity between appendages and limbs and trunk. In this manner, the human body, quite peculiarly, resembles a machine whose function is
- [artist statement](https://thestrand.ca/artist-statement/): artist statement words and artwork by zoe crepp The process for this piece started with a base image of my grandparents, Clomin and Bill Smith, getting married. In a sense, this photo is a representation of the beginning of our mixed-race family, as they were the first interracial couple on either side of my lineage. It
- [airflow](https://thestrand.ca/airflow/): airflow words by max leesphotos by max lees Paused, speechlessswallowed by a tea muggentle whispers rise up:cinnamon, cardamom, gingerFoot-steps fall leavesdance with the absurdity of Wednesday blown out of boundsby the eternal breath of October Soft on the sidewalksunbeams tiptoeacross the earthand stream intoa corner of the mind,projectingchildren shoutingsmalltown shufflescandy apple poison lipssuspended over open airevery flavour of nowdrips downto the fruitpeeling the pit facing outThe wind speaks a
- [Fall 2022 Magazine — Letters from the Editors](https://thestrand.ca/fall-2022-magazine-letters-from-the-editors/): Dear reader, When we sat down to brainstorm themes for this magazine, fluidity came to us naturally. Maybe it’s because the past two years have been a tumultuous time, and we’ve felt a stagnation—a drought, if you will. Or maybe it’s because we’re university students and are familiar with the ebbs and flows of navigating
- [Pan de Fiesta](https://thestrand.ca/pan-de-fiesta/): Pan de Fiesta words by gabriel sanches-ortega “Se dice pan de fiesta,”My father says to me.Pan de fiesta,Bread for the feast. I held the image in my hands,But never knew its taste. In the playground of the schoolThey pull me by the arms.They accuse me of things I haven’t done.They do not speak my language.
- [static pressure](https://thestrand.ca/static-pressure/): static pressure words by max leesillustration by max lees Behind the wheel I weave threads of silkbetween transports and caravans,dodge bullets that glide under the dashinto a sea of stars.You have a heavy foot like my motherYou’re going too fastThe underground lurches,squeals to keep up with the churning above,tensions and intentions slipout of alignment.You’re going to be
- [Seasick](https://thestrand.ca/seasick/): Seasick words by sydney pachecoillustration by natalie song I lay dormant enclosed by your four walls the overhead lights hug me as luminescence wraps me in blue I fall into you fully clothed I allow myself to sink into the waves of the sheets that surround as you manage to stay afloat my head bobs for air the waves you provided once scared me they
- [Dear Reader](https://thestrand.ca/dear-reader/): Dear reader, Our Fall Magazine, Fluidity, was a collection of questions, calmness, and tranquility, mixed with blue and purple hues. It conveyed a sense of being one with water and with the ebbs and flows of life. While our masthead took great pleasure in creating the magazine, we also stopped frequently in the face of
- [Mirage: Photoshoot](https://thestrand.ca/mirage-photoshoot/): Photoshoot Photos by Kelsey Phung
- [Mirage of memory](https://thestrand.ca/mirage-of-memory/): Mirage of Memory Words & Photos by Barbara AthanasoulasIllustration by Amie Leung I remember blankets of snow when my father died. But now, fourteen years later, I wonder how much of that memory has been filled in from bleak movie scenes. Does it matter if it snowed? I’ve lived with that memory long enough that
- [midnight](https://thestrand.ca/midnight/): midnight Words by Eva ChangIllustration by Aida Javan rosewood straddled art and the study of it, an anxiety disorder and an inflated ego, a yellow sertraline pill and a jeweled black corset. they straddled boys and girls, sometimes. they loved the clinical study of the body, naked in chiaroscuro; sex; being a drag queen; being
- [Why I dreaded making chai](https://thestrand.ca/why-i-dreaded-making-chai/): Comforting the Unseeable in a Brown-immigrant household
- [June](https://thestrand.ca/june/): June Words by Rion LevyIllustration by Natalie Song I prefer my peaches without their skinsBecause then I’m left to only chewThe sweetness of their fleshWhile their skins and pits can run and hide. I prefer my people, too, like I prefer my peachesI want to know the riches of their mindsUntainted by their façades and
- [Take off the rose-tinted glasses, Canada](https://thestrand.ca/take-off-the-rose-tinted-glasses-canada/): Take off the rose-tinted glasses, Canada Words by Abi AkinladeIllustration by Helen Yu The Bible’s Book of Exodus refers to “a land flowing with milk and honey”; it alludes to an idyllic utopia in which its inhabitants never suffer from grief or hunger. According to the likes of Doug Ford and Don Cherry, Canada—the country
- [Untitled](https://thestrand.ca/untitled/): Untitled Words and Photo by Max Lees The hunting party sets outInto the mudsucking swamp stumbling through thick fog and shooting at answers to a question they’re still looking for Carrying black-and-white binoculars, chanting to a two- beat stomp chasing ghosts and waving excitedly at some object in the distance conjured by their burning gaze,
- [Girls in Mirrors](https://thestrand.ca/girls-in-mirrors/): The art of trying things on
- [Mirage: Letter from the Editor](https://thestrand.ca/mirage-letter-from-the-editor/): Dear reader, These past couple of years have felt akin to wandering aimlessly through an incessant desert. Whenever we thought we might be nearing an oasis, it turned out to just be a trick of light. An unfounded hope. A mirage. The Strand’s spring 2022 magazine features nine pieces that consider the theme of “mirage”
- [Cake: Letter from the Editor](https://thestrand.ca/cake-letter-from-the-editor/): Dear reader, I’m not keen to admit this, but the theme for this magazine emerged from a meme: namely, the “everything is cake” trend from summer 2020. Slicing into everyday objects only to reveal an interior of cake is unsettling, to say the least. And yet, is this not the most succinct metaphor for life—that
- [Dessert](https://thestrand.ca/dessert-poem/): Words by Rion LevyVisuals by Kalliopé Anvar McCall we start with the icing​​— layer by layer we peel it off each other’s dense, chewy centres: perfectly round, plump with sugar, pleasant, perfect mounds pleading to be desired. we devour— driven together, digging insatiably deeper with our fingers, tasting our softness with every lick and once
- [Food as Love](https://thestrand.ca/food-as-love/): Cooking as a vessel for care in Chinese culture
- [Caked up](https://thestrand.ca/caked-up/): Caked Up The influence of white respectability politics on Black cultural movements Words by A.S.A.Visuals by Helen Yu When you hear the word “cake,” what’s the first thing that comes to mind? For me, it’s a slice of red velvet with cream cheese frosting. In today’s day and age, though, “cake” has developed a new
- [Reflections from decades of serving Toronto as bakers](https://thestrand.ca/reflections-from-decades-of-serving-toronto-as-bakers/): Bakers with half a century of experience discuss their lives in the industry, along with a younger innovator serving luxury French pastries
- [How to Be a Functional Human Being in Society](https://thestrand.ca/how-to-be-a-functional-human-being-in-society-a-recipe/): A Recipe
- [Marie](https://thestrand.ca/marie/): Words by Anna SokolovaVisuals by Seavey van Walsum told them to let us eat,right? How did the papers frame it—queen of depravity? Opaqueas a mannequin in her skirts (though the libelles showed the world:this succubus won’t let us eat),she takes her last walk. Justice waitsfor the future her head obscures. She steps on the foot
- [To be a slice of funfetti cake](https://thestrand.ca/frosting-and-fashion-questions-of-authenticity/): Frosting and fashion: questions of authenticity
- [Cake through the ages](https://thestrand.ca/the-meaning-of-cake-through-different-stages-of-life/): The meaning of cake through different stages of life
- [The Bakery Thief](https://thestrand.ca/the-bakery-thief/): Words by Milo ZhuVisuals by Yoon-Ji Kweon Note From the Poet: I wrote this poem to criticize the misogynistic men who sexualize others’ bodies, and the ways in which women are subjected to objectification. This poem references sexual assault and depicts some heavy topics that may bring discomfort. If you are in need of resources,
- [On the Prairies, Lying Down](https://thestrand.ca/on-the-prairies-lying-down/): Abstract Expressionist Clyfford Still preferred vertical compositions over horizontal. He believed verticality was an expression of being alive. He once commented on his home of the Canadian Prairies: “When there were snowstorms, you either stood up and lived or laid down and died.” I am nine years old. My dad has been teaching me how
- [Explore: Letter from the Editors](https://thestrand.ca/explore-letter-from-the-editors/): Dear reader, While not being able to print our magazine was certainly an upsetting limitation, we engaged in exploring right along with our contributors to create a digital experience outside of our ordinary online pieces. Their work inspired us to take chances, to dive headfirst into the unknown, with the confidence that the journey would
- [A collection of musings on quarantine dreams](https://thestrand.ca/a-collection-of-musings-on-quarantine-dreams/): Unpacking my subconscious’ wackiest moments
- [Black blondes have more fun](https://thestrand.ca/black-blondes-have-more-fun/): Uncovering my mask as Black woman in a white world
- [Different places, similar ways](https://thestrand.ca/different-places-similar-ways/): Seeing an old friend in several alternate realities
- [Exploration of childhood](https://thestrand.ca/exploration-of-childhood/): This piece came about as I thought back to my childhood growing up in Conception Bay South and Paradise, Newfoundland. Looking back, I see a lot of things differently now, and my reflection on that part of my life shows me an entire world that I did not clock the first time. It makes sense,
- [I’m not fearing anymore, nor shameful](https://thestrand.ca/im-not-fearing-anymore-nor-shameful/): Exploring culture as a second-gen immigrant
- [Inqueery](https://thestrand.ca/inqueery/)
- [L’amour d’un rêveur](https://thestrand.ca/lamour-dun-reveur/): (A dreamer's love)
- [L’Appel du Vide](https://thestrand.ca/lappel-du-vide/): (The Call of the Void)
- [Ode to a shoe](https://thestrand.ca/ode-to-a-shoe/): Currently seeking a pair of size 10 Jeffrey Campbell loafers
- [Steps for Self-Soothing](https://thestrand.ca/steps-for-self-soothing/): My winding, relentless efforts towards one night of deep, uninterrupted sleep
- [Painting](https://thestrand.ca/painting/): Immortalizing memories that have since turned into dreams
- [Lucid Dreaming to Unpack Gender Dysphoria](https://thestrand.ca/lucid-dreaming-to-unpack-gender-dysphoria/): When quarantine began in March of 2020, everybody in lockdown took a nosedive into new hobbies. Most notably, Dalgona coffee reigned over Instagram, then sourdough, and as people got frustrated with that, they leveled down to focaccia. Those not interested in the kitchen returned to childhood games, TV dramas, and anime. I redownloaded Reddit and tried to teach myself to
- [Lavender and Poppies](https://thestrand.ca/lavender-and-poppies/): Do you like lavender or poppies? Both will put you right to sleep. Dreamfields lush with flower trances In valleys six feet deep. Those who sleep to dream to die Live in honourary toasts. While girls who’ve died within my dreams Become like living ghosts. If dreams are the subconscious mind Existing in between What we know and what
- [Dreams: Letter from the Editors](https://thestrand.ca/dreams-letter-from-the-editors/): Why do we dream, what do we dream about, and why? These questions have become significant during our pandemic-present. Where do we wish we were? What do we want our future to look like? What have we been promised, but never received? With our final magazine of the year, our contributors have answers to these
- [To the places that own pieces of my heart](https://thestrand.ca/elementor-16931/): Paying homage to my favorite places, until I can visit them again There is an indescribable joy in being able to travel the world. With the most travelling I’ve done in the past couple of months being from my bedroom to my kitchen and back, I’ve had a lot of time to look back on
- [To return, again and again](https://thestrand.ca/to-return-again-and-again/): On using the past to cope with the present
- [The global coffee crisis and how Caffiends is adapting](https://thestrand.ca/the-global-coffee-crisis-and-how-caffiends-is-adapting/): Exploring the impact of COVID-19 on the coffee industry in Toronto and beyond
- [Speaking of silence](https://thestrand.ca/speaking-of-silence/): Trying to explain neurodiversity to a world that doesn’t recognize it
- [Outside of Earth](https://thestrand.ca/outside-of-earth/): Exploring the impact of COVID-19 on the coffee industry in Toronto and beyond
- [Loving your homeland and hating your state](https://thestrand.ca/loving-your-homeland-and-hating-your-state/): A look at an identity crisis spanning 15 years, or how I finally came to terms with who I am after cultural self-exile and ended up right where I started (sorry mom and dad)
- [BeYou, BeBeautiful, BeReal](https://thestrand.ca/beyou-bebeautiful-bereal/): Being real in the best and worst of times
- [Cinema studies student faces grueling schedule](https://thestrand.ca/cinema-studies-student-faces-grueling-schedule/): ‘I have three movies to watch by 11:59’
- [Mama, I’m in love with a criminal](https://thestrand.ca/mama-im-in-love-with-a-criminal/): A good girl’s guide to being a SINfluencer
- [The new COVID-19 bivalent vaccine: what you should know](https://thestrand.ca/the-new-covid-19-bivalent-vaccine-what-you-should-know/): Toronto Public Health’s Dr. Vinita Dubey answers questions
- [Hot mad scientists rated by me, a hot mad scientist](https://thestrand.ca/hot-mad-scientists-rated-by-me-a-hot-mad-scientist/): Proven by science!
- [Extension Request](https://thestrand.ca/extension-request/): Dear Professor / I hope you are well / I hope you are splendid / I hope you are in whichever headspace permits you to accept my humble extension request / I hope that your kids are getting good grades / that your oatmeal is plentiful with berries / that the 5K you ran over
- [Ghost's town](https://thestrand.ca/ghosts-town/): Mornings I drive through a lesion in memoryfrom County Road Five until Bedford.The shadow of a history only half forgotten slips between bricks and sidewalk cracks.I could be window shopping for realities both lost in timeand still waiting in my rear-view mirror,but I’m already running late— a child makes a dash for the bus and I hit the brakes.At
- [The Magic of Studio Ghibli](https://thestrand.ca/the-magic-of-studio-ghibli/): My love letter to Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki
- [Meet me at Midnight?](https://thestrand.ca/meet-me-at-midnight/): For the people who know 11:59 pm all too well
- [Stories @ Vic: Sofia Vega is making art earnestly](https://thestrand.ca/stories-vic-sofia-vega-is-making-art-earnestly/): Combining passions to make something beautiful.
- [Reflecting and reminiscing with <i>The Strand</i>](https://thestrand.ca/reflecting-and-reminiscing-with-the-strand/): Feeling our feelings about 2022
- [Why do we care so much about the lives of celebrities?](https://thestrand.ca/why-do-we-care-so-much-about-the-lives-of-celebrities/): Musings inspired by the Alan Rickman Diaries and Selena Gomez’s new documentary
- [Unthemed, unfazed, unbothered](https://thestrand.ca/unthemed-unfazed-unbothered/): Wrapping up the year with reflections and an announcement
- [Bill 23 (More Homes Built Faster Act, 2022)](https://thestrand.ca/bill-23-more-homes-built-faster-act-2022/): Ford government proposes redesignation of protected land as “settlement areas”
- [Bill 28 repealed as education workers agree to tentative agreement](https://thestrand.ca/bill-28-repealed-as-education-workers-agree-to-tentative-agreement/): Ontario withdraws use of notwithstanding clause to suspend workers’ rights
- [The Fall of Twitter](https://thestrand.ca/the-fall-of-twitter/): Musk’s new user verification policy leads to fake accounts and misinformation
- [UofT students required to enroll in multi-factor authentication for UTORID (UTORMFA)](https://thestrand.ca/uoft-students-required-to-enroll-in-multi-factor-authentication-for-utorid-utormfa/): Logins require the use of a mobile app to mitigate security breaches
- [140 BPM (Broke Pained Men)](https://thestrand.ca/140-bpm-broke-pained-men/): House music and economic recession
- [Doug Ford’s populist vendetta strikes again](https://thestrand.ca/doug-fords-populist-vendetta-strikes-again/): For a politician that claims to be “for the people,” suspending their rights seems off-brand
- [The Order of Colonial Violence](https://thestrand.ca/the-order-of-colonial-violence/): Why did David McKay, the CEO of the country's dirtiest bank, RBC, receive the Order of Ontario?
- [Let them buy concert tickets!](https://thestrand.ca/let-them-buy-concert-tickets/): Concerts aren’t so fun when you're being suffocated by the unrelenting weight of capitalism
- [The key to success is to have ZERO thoughts](https://thestrand.ca/the-key-to-success-is-to-have-zero-thoughts/): From the “author” of the acclaimed Dear Dumb Diary series, 10 years later.
- [Strandcast Vol. 65 - Ep. 2: Listen or Die - A Halloween Special!](https://thestrand.ca/strandcast-vol-65-ep-2-listen-or-die-a-halloween-special/): Boo! Come and sit by the metaphorical fire as you listen to some spooky Filipino monster lore. Also in this episode, Jerico recounts many different superstitions that have impacted his life, as well as one horrifyingly embarrassing story at the beginning, as a treat for you. Outro Music: “Good News”, by Eino Toivanen, https://kongano.com/?page_id=44 Licenced
- [Four UofT-themed costume ideas for Halloween](https://thestrand.ca/hed-four-uoft-themed-costume-ideas-for-halloween/): Witches. Zombies. Skeletons. Ghosts. Traditional Halloween costumes are simply not relatable, nor scary, to the average UofT student. (Except for ghosts—as a Trinity College student, I am all too familiar with ghosts. I don’t want to talk about it). Ditch the boring stuff and opt for some costumes that will really freak everyone out! 1.
- [Beast](https://thestrand.ca/beast/): Your body is going to be alright, because the Witch in the woods says so. The world is going to end. We all know that. Gonna get stabbed in the heart by the Three of Swords. Gonna get the hell out when the conversation goes grim. Crowds surging, because something is wrong. War is built
- [Gothic literature recommendations for the Halloween haters](https://thestrand.ca/gothic-literature-recommendations-for-the-halloween-haters/): Celebrating Halloween as a university student is an ordeal and a half. Deciding where you’re gonna fall on the cute-to-slutty costume scale, being too broke to splurge on Loblaws’ mega-packs of candy, and recovering from post-midterm stress is enough to turn anyone off of the holiday. But fear not, dear readers! I’ve come up with
- [‘Too Little, Too Late’: PEARS protests for a safer campus after reviewing UofT’s sexual violence policy](https://thestrand.ca/too-little-too-late-pears-protests-for-a-safer-campus-after-reviewing-uofts-sexual-violence-policy/): The survivor-led initiative voices concerns across UofT’s three campuses
- [Boris sent me](https://thestrand.ca/boris-sent-me/): A companion to your spooky playlist of issue four
- [Sweet tooth for Hedwig](https://thestrand.ca/sweet-tooth-for-hedwig/): VCDS’ Hedwig and the Angry Inch sells out the Cat’s Eye
- [In dialogue with witches](https://thestrand.ca/in-dialogue-with-witches/): Conjuring up answers to your burning questions
- [Pierre Poilievre YouTube channel linked to misogynistic tag](https://thestrand.ca/pierre-poilievre-youtube-channel-linked-to-misogynistic-tag/): Poilievre YouTube revelations come at a time of increased awareness of online misogyny
- [Reactions at UofT to Iran protests](https://thestrand.ca/reactions-at-uoft-to-iran-protests/): University students and faculty respond in solidarity to protests in Iran
- [Scream queens and movie screens](https://thestrand.ca/horror-in-a-time-of-violence-2/): The tenuous relationship between horror films and The Academy
- [Horror in a time of violence](https://thestrand.ca/horror-in-a-time-of-violence/): The Gulf War was the ultimate slasher
- [Halloween candies, ranked](https://thestrand.ca/halloween-candies-ranked/): Halloween: the time for binging every horror movie known to mankind, dressing up in spooky costumes, and carving pumpkins. These are everyone’s spooky season highlights, right? WRONG! For me, it’s all about the candy—and I will never feel guilty about eating delectable sweets. I have strong opinions on where each sweet belongs in the candy
- [BOO!](https://thestrand.ca/boo/): Ghostface pays a visit to The Strand
- [The subtle art of self-care after a day of hard work](https://thestrand.ca/the-subtle-art-of-self-care-after-a-day-of-hard-work/): How to treat yourself after studying for *ahem* two full minutes
- [On the death of the poet in the modern age](https://thestrand.ca/on-the-death-of-the-poet-in-the-modern-age/): Poetry is dead and we’re the culprits
- [Why do women <i>really</i> like true crime?](https://thestrand.ca/why-do-women-really-like-true-crime/): It’s movie night and you’re watching a woman on-screen making a choice that you can already tell will end her life. We all know the drill; you have a blanket clenched in one fist and your mouth covered by the palm of your other hand. You sit hunched over on the edge of your sofa,
- [<i>The Strand</i> creeps it real.](https://thestrand.ca/the-strand-creeps-it-real/): Lettuce and Trin and Butterfingers! Oh my!
- [Unscientific science](https://thestrand.ca/unscientific-science/): How forensic science can fail at solving crimes
- [HELP WANTED: what does this mean?](https://thestrand.ca/help-wanted-what-does-this-mean/): Pls I am genuinely scared
- [Same person, brand new demons!](https://thestrand.ca/same-person-brand-new-demons/): Growing up was the easy part.
- [Stranger Things, according to me](https://thestrand.ca/stranger-things-according-to-me/): I didn’t watch it ‘cause it was too scary
- [Who’s afraid of the dark?](https://thestrand.ca/whos-afraid-of-the-dark/): The search for dark matter
- [An interview with Vic President Dr. Rhonda McEwen](https://thestrand.ca/an-interview-with-vic-president-dr-rhonda-mcewen/): Dr. McEwen began her term as President and Vice-Chancellor of Victoria University on July 1, 2022. She spoke with The Strand about her plans for her term as President, and her take on important issues at Vic. The Strand: What are some of your main goals for the next five years as President? President McEwen:
- [Entropy: the disorder of the universe](https://thestrand.ca/entropy-the-disorder-of-the-universe/): The chaos we witness every day, which resides in the order of the universe
- [The case for reinventing scientific academia](https://thestrand.ca/the-case-for-reinventing-scientific-academia/): Why the current system fails to retain bright scientific talent, and how we can fix it
- [<i>Don’t Worry Darling</i>? No thanks, I’m pretty concerned](https://thestrand.ca/dont-worry-darling-no-thanks-im-pretty-concerned/): An exhaustive and curious dive into celebrity drama
- [The dark side of the internet](https://thestrand.ca/the-dark-side-of-the-internet/): Does our curiosity sometimes destroy us?
- [Curiouser and curiouser…](https://thestrand.ca/curiouser-and-curiouser/): On falling down the rabbit hole and knowing when to climb back out
- [10 BIZARRE things](https://thestrand.ca/10-bizarre-things/): We discovered while cleaning out The Strand office
- [10 questions science STILL can’t answer](https://thestrand.ca/10-questions-science-still-cant-answer/): The deepest darkest mysteries of our lives
- [Curiosity killed the cat](https://thestrand.ca/curiosity-killed-the-cat/): And stole my sanity!
- [Distractions die hard](https://thestrand.ca/distractions-die-hard/): You’ll never catch me studying
- [The Intersection](https://thestrand.ca/the-intersection/): Illustration | Jennifer Fong Li It’s there, Right around the corner. Darting eyes. Perked ears. Scampering feet. Sweat is wiped from foreheads. The drops of dew Are flicked from wrists And sizzle on the summer’s pavement. Steps, Through beams of sunlight. Don’t step on the crack. The scars of the sidewalk From winters past.…
- [A question for T.S. Eliot](https://thestrand.ca/why-are-there-so-many-big-white-trucks-2/): Illustration | Jennifer Fong Li Mr. Eliot, sir, you who taught me about men, and death, and growing old, About cold comings, balding Magi, and trousers rolled,Time has demanded of me to wonder, having lost the innocence of a kid, Time to ask you, ‘Why do dads die, like Dad’s dad did?’Mr. Eliot, sir, you who told…
- [Why are there so many big, white trucks?](https://thestrand.ca/why-are-there-so-many-big-white-trucks/): A guide to UofT’s role in film, with a focus in and around Victoria College
- [Defending the right to boycott](https://thestrand.ca/defending-the-right-to-boycott/): A conversation about the documentary Boycott
- [High School Musical 2 Shadowcast: A Splashing Success](https://thestrand.ca/high-school-musical-2-shadowcast-a-splashing-success/): I indeed got “SOOO WET!”
- [Down the rabbit hole](https://thestrand.ca/down-the-rabbit-hole/): A sonically disorienting wonderland of Alice-inspired tunes, old and new. Main Title (Alice in Wonderland) - The Jud Conlon Chorus White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane Alice - Avril Lavigne Wonderland - Taylor Swift Painting Flowers - All Time LowUnbirthday Song - Camarata Chorus and Orchestra Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) - Florence and the MachineA Wolf Who Wears Sheeps Clothes
- [Stories @ Vic: An interview with ‘Hey, Teach!’ Co-Editor in Chief, Imani King](https://thestrand.ca/stories-vic-an-interview-with-hey-teach-co-editor-in-chief-imani-king/): This month I had the pleasure of interviewing Imani King, a fourth year English major. She has been an active member of the Vic community for four years through her contributions to the Victoria College based magazine Hey, Teach!. King states that Hey, Teach! is “the only UofT publication solely dedicated to the topic of
- [The power of ‘perhaps’](https://thestrand.ca/the-power-of-perhaps/): Author Margaret Atwood and Professor Randy Boyadega discuss democracy—and what lies in store for its future
- [What’s that word?](https://thestrand.ca/whats-that-word/): A deep dive into languages, family, connection, and curiosity
- [Russia declares partial mobilization against Ukraine: an update](https://thestrand.ca/russia-declares-partial-mobilization-against-ukraine-an-update/): Why Putin wants Ukraine
- [What you need to know about the Toronto municipal election](https://thestrand.ca/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-toronto-municipal-election/): New challengers contest mayor’s seat as Mayor Tory seeks third consecutive term
- [Vic University welcomes new president Dr. Rhonda McEwen](https://thestrand.ca/vic-university-welcomes-new-president-dr-rhonda-mcewen/): A look at the new president’s visions for the university
- [A conversation with Oz Weaver, Just For Laughs Toronto Festival 2022](https://thestrand.ca/a-conversation-with-oz-weaver-just-for-laughs-toronto-festival-2022/): The Just For Laughs Festival returns to Toronto from September 22 to October 1
- [Ode to the Juicy tracksuit: long may she reign](https://thestrand.ca/ode-to-the-juicy-tracksuit-long-may-she-reign/): Photo | Courtesy of Ernie via Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0) When I die, bury me in my Juicy Couture tracksuit. Let the flowers on my tombstone be fuchsia like my outfit, and may my loved ones throw sequins—not dirt—upon my bedazzled casket. May my mourners wear anything but black—to do otherwise
- [Stories @ Vic: The art of collecting](https://thestrand.ca/stories-vic-the-art-of-collecting/): When we think about the parameters of ‘excess,’ it’s difficult not to consider the boundaries between minimalism and maximalism. How much stuff is too much stuff? Pro-minimalists (such as the infamous Marie Kondo) would suggest it is anything that does not “spark joy.” Though sometimes, a lot can spark joy. To kick off Stories @
- [4C the future](https://thestrand.ca/4c-the-future/): Shrinkage and shrinking—my natural hair journey
- [<i>The Strand</i> goes glam](https://thestrand.ca/the-strand-goes-glam/): This issue, we’re sharing with you a collection of music for relishing in the fantasy of material wealth. Lots of it. No, really… it’s excessive. The Strand Goes Glam Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend - Marilyn MonroeFashionista - Jimmy JamesGlamorous - Fergie, LudacrisDiamonds (with Normani) - Megan Thee Stallion, NormaniI Want - One DirectionMoney,
- [A formal letter to <i>Raya</i>](https://thestrand.ca/a-formal-letter-to-raya/): Please… let me in….
- [How to respectfully tell your profs that they are assigning way too much work without getting kicked out of class](https://thestrand.ca/how-to-respectfully-tell-your-profs-that-they-are-assigning-way-too-much-work-without-getting-kicked-out-of-class/): Reverse psychology, babey!!
- [The humor(s) article](https://thestrand.ca/the-humors-article/): Pseudoscientists LOVE this one simple trick!
- [This just in: cats can have A LOT of salami](https://thestrand.ca/this-just-in-cats-can-have-a-lot-of-salami/): Not just as a treat
- [“Green” clothing?](https://thestrand.ca/green-clothing/): Environmental impacts of the fast fashion industry
- [Too much safety?](https://thestrand.ca/too-much-safety/): Why safety measures can result in dangerous behaviours
- [A Limp Hand Extending from the Body on the Couch](https://thestrand.ca/a-limp-hand-extending-from-the-body-on-the-couch/): I can’t reach the Sediments settling in The lining between my Daydreams and responsibilities, Every gap a yawning canyon, Repetitions of “Tomorrow, I’ll–” And it’s still today in spite of Night and the Glue leaking from my dirty pores, For every unclean, slow dream sticks to me; I have never moved, not even once. Self-loathing
- [Spell Jars](https://thestrand.ca/spell-jars/): “Put it in a jar and it’s a spell,” the saying goes. Withered flowers for resurrecting memories that outlive the bouquet. Pebbles for conjuring a granola sunburn on rainy days in the city. I put everything in jars. This room that holds all my joy, all my fury, all my little trinkets that keep the
- [Chronically online—a virtual disease](https://thestrand.ca/chronically-online-a-virtual-disease/): A dive into the overstimulating and excessive consumption of social media
- [A conversation with MPP Jessica Bell](https://thestrand.ca/a-conversation-with-mpp-jessica-bell/): Campaign highlights, goals, and the future
- [Events to check out around campus this Fall](https://thestrand.ca/events-to-check-out-around-campus-this-fall/): Get out of your dorm room and recover from assignments with something fun!
- [Ontario minimum wage increasing to $15.50 on October 1 amidst growing inflation](https://thestrand.ca/ontario-minimum-wage-increasing-to-15-50-on-october-1-amidst-growing-inflation/): Reflections on how the minimum wage increase is set to impact student quality of life
- [UofT’s 2022 review of the Policy on Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment](https://thestrand.ca/uofts-2022-review-of-the-policy-on-sexual-violence-and-sexual-harassment/): What does it mean for students and staff?
- [Food waste and inaccessibility at the Chelsea Residence](https://thestrand.ca/food-waste-and-inaccessibility-at-the-chelsea-residence/): How the Chelsea Hotel failed to provide healthy and sustainable food
- [An excess of opportunities](https://thestrand.ca/an-excess-of-opportunities/): And a lack of motivation to pursue any of them
- [In conversation with A&C: TIFF 2022](https://thestrand.ca/in-conversation-with-ac-tiff-2022/): A lot of films, one article
- [Strandcast Vol. 65 - Ep. 1: Dis-Disorienting](https://thestrand.ca/strandcast-vol-65-ep-1-dis-disorienting/): Need some chaotic but comforting advice for both incoming and returning students? Join Jerico, the podcast editor, as he explores the possibilities of the podcast through the lens of some of his favourite podcasts. Following that, he's joined by his first guest, Cat, to answer some student questions. Are the answers any good? Listen and
- [My favourite study spots last year at UofT](https://thestrand.ca/my-favourite-study-spots-last-year-at-uoft/): After the crazy year we’ve had, it feels intimidating to find a public space where you can simultaneously study and breathe without violating the law and/or giving yourself anxiety. I want to help first-years out by giving them some unique places to stress over coursework! Here are my favourite study spots, in no particular order.
- [A hot girl’s guide to packing for uni](https://thestrand.ca/a-hot-girls-guide-to-packing-for-uni/): A very serious and well-thought-out list of items to keep and ditch when packing for UofT
- [New year, same (dis)orientation](https://thestrand.ca/new-year-same-disorientation/): On navigating the upcoming year and looking to the Vic community for guidance
- [On age, authenticity, and orientation](https://thestrand.ca/on-age-authenticity-and-orientation/): How I began fully living my life
- [Quarter note rest](https://thestrand.ca/quarter-rest/): Gap yearsignifyinga slippery head,the lost chip in bedsheets’ seams,the honest grip of academic burden—with ego death, its loss, a dream! This odd twist;leaving a chippy mind to dampen,leavings of proteins unfolded,heaving from kin’s guilt, this damned sinblistered, known as the “son” who folded. Yet, there’s glister inuncombed, uncoiffed, and voided manes,these sprouting thoughts (from honest
- [The broke creative’s guide to living well](https://thestrand.ca/the-broke-creatives-guide-to-living-well/): How to live large while spending little as a student
- [Winning friends and influencing people, minus the emotional manipulation](https://thestrand.ca/winning-friends-and-influencing-people-minus-the-emotional-manipulation/): The book inspired Manson, hopefully the article will inspire you!
- [So you think you’re “too dumb” for UofT?](https://thestrand.ca/so-you-think-youre-too-dumb-for-uoft/): Here’s a list of some dumb things I thought and did (and hey—I’ve made it to third year)
- [Every UofT website, ranked](https://thestrand.ca/every-uoft-website-ranked/): The ultimate guide
- [Starting UofT: The Spotify Musical](https://thestrand.ca/starting-uoft-the-spotify-musical/): A playlist-formatted guide to starting university life
- [On poetry, pandemics, and path-finding](https://thestrand.ca/on-poetry-pandemics-and-path-finding/): Editor’s note
- [You’re (never) too old for this](https://thestrand.ca/youre-never-too-old-for-this/): Fifth year reflections on extending undergrad, and other thoughts
- [The ‘Bell’ still tolls](https://thestrand.ca/the-bell-still-tolls/): What Jessica Bell’s re-election means for us
- [Events around campus to start the school year right!](https://thestrand.ca/events-around-campus-to-start-the-school-year-right/): Celebrate the start of term and meet new friends at these fun campus events
- [A COVID update for fall 2022](https://thestrand.ca/a-covid-update-for-fall-2022/): What Victoria College and UofT are (or are not) doing to keep you safe this fall semester
- [(Re) Introducing: Stories @ Vic](https://thestrand.ca/re-introducing-stories-vic/): Taking ‘A Piece of Vic’ in a new direction, and the joys of sharing art
- [Help! I’m starting frosh week and everything I know I learned from TV](https://thestrand.ca/help-im-starting-frosh-week-and-everything-i-know-i-learned-from-tv/): Channing Tatum, where are you?
- [What you need to know about the June election](https://thestrand.ca/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-june-election/): Ford’s second term, connecting with MPP Jessica Bell, and the future of Ontario Liberals
- [Your (back-to) Vic <i>Spotify</i> mixes](https://thestrand.ca/your-back-to-vic-spotify-mixes/): Music for those quintessential fall campus moments
- [Disclarity](https://thestrand.ca/disclarity/): I feel like —I don’t really know how to explain it, but —I feel likeThat glossy layer of condensation On a cheap scoop of ice cream.Strawberry or chocolate or something,The sheen, its weak shell coats the dessertJust before it melts I also feel likeOne of those unrecognizably smattered and batteredBits of sidewalk gumThat has been dragged
- [The multiplex dimensions of “going home”](https://thestrand.ca/the-multiplex-dimensions-of-going-home/): Being the child of immigrants is a whirlwind experience. If that was not convoluted enough, being a second-generation Canadian is a whole theme park on its own. The ups, downs, and everything in between are experiences wherein we constantly find ourselves being pulled in two or more directions. This is because our identities are structured
- [How you may be trapped in a filter bubble of music due to AI](https://thestrand.ca/how-you-may-be-trapped-in-a-filter-bubble-of-music-due-to-ai/): The engines of recommendation are shaping the way that artists create music
- [We’re thriving in 2020, bitches](https://thestrand.ca/were-thriving-in-2020-bitches/): Some tunes to start a new decade on a good note
- [Let's talk about love, baby!](https://thestrand.ca/lets-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 for this sacred issue. Given that
- [Fall(ing) for comfort](https://thestrand.ca/falling-for-comfort/): A playlist of autumnal Canadian tunes
- [Folk: the people’s music](https://thestrand.ca/folk-the-peoples-music/): It’s hard to pinpoint the exact moment I started listening to folk music, but it’s been present in my life for quite some time now. Likewise, it’s difficult to define what folk music even is. There are songs with unknown origins, that have been passed down through generations. They harken back to a time when
- [The reincarnation of Romantic poets](https://thestrand.ca/the-reincarnation-of-romantic-poets/): If you ever meet someone who studies English literature, chances are they have an interest in a particular genre, time period, or theory. While I admire a variety of authors, styles, and periods, I always felt a deep connection to the writings produced by authors of the Romantic period. I spent the third year of
- [I’d like you to meet Miss Jackie Shane](https://thestrand.ca/id-like-you-to-meet-miss-jackie-shane/): I’ve waxed poetic about my Spotify Discover Weekly playlists before—but let me do it one more time. Every Sunday, at the stroke of midnight, my Spotify undergoes a baptism. The 30 songs from 30 artists that I have never heard before make their way into the playlist. I never have a clue as to what
- [Filling space “empty:” Vaporwave as a placeholder for silence](https://thestrand.ca/filling-space-empty-vaporwave-as-a-placeholder-for-silence/): Filling empty space also means populating the airwaves
- [Finding balance](https://thestrand.ca/finding-balance/): How my love of the arts turned toxic, and served as a reminder to live life fully
- [The illusion of individuality](https://thestrand.ca/the-illusion-of-individuality/): On abolishing the rampant culture of gatekeeping
- [Yeehaw xo baby](https://thestrand.ca/yeehaw-xo-baby/): A playlist review
- [Cozy winter playlist](https://thestrand.ca/cozy-winter-playlist/): It’s winter, whether you like it or not!
- [The opposite of loneliness](https://thestrand.ca/the-opposite-of-loneliness/): Readings and reflections from four years
- [A South-Asian Perspective of What Kamala Harris Represents](https://thestrand.ca/a-south-asian-perspective-of-what-kamala-harris-represents/): I want to address the fact that this article is based on my personal experiences as a South-Asian woman. It in no way represents all of us or our experiences. What Kamala Harris Represents Saturday, November 7, was the day I discovered that Kamala Harris became the Vice President (VP)-elect of America. The anticipation surrounding
- [Which cowboy ranch is your dream home?](https://thestrand.ca/which-cowboy-ranch-is-your-dream-home/): Take the quiz!
- [What your favourite fanfic pairing says about you](https://thestrand.ca/what-your-favourite-fanfic-pairing-says-about-you/): + super helpful dating advice
- [How did the cowboy hat stray so far from the ranch?](https://thestrand.ca/how-did-the-cowboy-hat-stray-so-far-from-the-ranch/): Let me tell you a little story about a man named Bret
- [Find all of the ingredients for the perfect cowboy boyfriend](https://thestrand.ca/find-all-of-the-ingredients-for-the-perfect-cowboy-boyfriend/): Okay, so you’re a rocket scientist? That don’t impress me much…
- [Satire: Melina Milk—The New Cow’s Milk](https://thestrand.ca/satire-melina-milk-the-new-cows-milk/): Poog.com Blog Post #1038
- [Satire: VUSAC President skips town to pursue cowboy dreams](https://thestrand.ca/satire-vusac-president-skips-town-to-pursue-cowboy-dreams/): From fledgling student politician to saloon-renowned wrangler, student body responds
- [The unknown long-term effects of consuming harrowing horse girl narratives as a child](https://thestrand.ca/the-unknown-long-term-effects-of-consuming-harrowing-horse-girl-narratives-as-a-child/): They said Black Beauty was a kids movie
- [Sweet niblets! Life is a rodeo!](https://thestrand.ca/sweet-niblets-life-is-a-rodeo/): Vol. 64, as told through Hannah Montana song titles
- [Satire: BREAKING—Members of Parliament meet to discuss ‘cowboy calamity’](https://thestrand.ca/satire-breaking-members-of-parliament-meet-to-discuss-cowboy-calamity/): Widespread cowboy mania continues to stump authorities as communities begin to panic
- [Ask Saucy Suzy: How do I kiss without tongue?](https://thestrand.ca/ask-saucy-suzy-how-do-i-kiss-without-tongue/): Dear Saucy Suzy, Have you ever kissed without tongue? My girlfriend told me that she loves the way I kiss, only she wishes that I didn’t use so much of the old pink fish. In fact, she’s asked me to try cutting the waggly guy out of the equation entirely! That’s right: she wants it
- [How to distract people from your shocking misunderstanding of basic geography](https://thestrand.ca/how-to-distract-people-from-your-shocking-misunderstanding-of-basic-geography/): It’s just me and the GPS lady against the big bad world woof woof
- [At Dollywood](https://thestrand.ca/at-dollywood/): A Tennessee reverie
- [Sexiest cowboys: dead or alive](https://thestrand.ca/hot-cowboy-rights/): WANTED...but just for myself
- [Unsaddled: Interview with the Corona Cowboy](https://thestrand.ca/unsaddled-interview-with-the-corona-cowboy/): An investigation into Toronto’s real life cowboy
- [Ask Saucy Suzy: How do I save a horse, ride a cowboy?](https://thestrand.ca/ask-saucy-suzy-how-do-i-save-a-horse-ride-a-cowboy/): Dear Saucy Suzy, I’m in love with a cowboy. He’s tall, sleeps in his spurs, and purrs like a kitty cat whenever I buck like a wild bull. We play this game where we go to crowded public places and I charge at him until he catches me. Everything is perfect. The only problem is:
- [“Cowboy” is on the way out](https://thestrand.ca/cowboy-is-on-the-way-out/): Here’s what’s next
- [In conversation with Horse Girls](https://thestrand.ca/in-conversation-with-horse-girls/): A stranger’s guide to the ranch
- [I wear cowboy boots constantly — and the world hates me for it](https://thestrand.ca/i-wear-cowboy-boots-constantly-and-the-world-hates-me-for-it/): You call it bizarre and concerning. I call it authenticity.
- [Every country song you’ve ever heard](https://thestrand.ca/every-country-song-youve-ever-heard/): With the hip hop twist we all deserve
- [Victoria College reverses course: non-Black and non-Indigenous students of colour will remain eligible for VUSAC Leadership Award for BIPOC Students](https://thestrand.ca/victoria-college-reverses-course-non-black-and-non-indigenous-students-of-colour-will-remain-eligible-for-vusac-leadership-award-for-bipoc-students/): Victoria College administration are reversing the changes made earlier this month to the Victoria University Students' Administrative Council (VUSAC) BIPOC Leadership Award. In an exclusive statement to The Strand, Victoria College spokesperson Sally Szuster wrote, “We are pleased to share that we will move forward with the award as The VUSAC Leadership Award for BIPOC
- [A tale of two studies](https://thestrand.ca/a-tale-of-two-studies/): The duality of STEAM degrees
- [Unravelled: Demystifying student fees](https://thestrand.ca/unravelled-demystifying-student-fees/): The Strand investigates student fees at Vic so you don’t have to
- [Nailing the art of caring just enough](https://thestrand.ca/nailing-the-art-of-caring-just-enough/): Joan Didion, who passed on December 23, 2021, is perhaps best known for the opening sentence to her book of non-fiction essays, The White Album: “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” Over a life of reading and self-storytelling, there are few specific instances that I can point to and claim as my own
- [ If the universe is beyond human comprehension, why does life here on Earth look so normal?](https://thestrand.ca/if-the-universe-is-beyond-human-comprehension-why-does-life-here-on-earth-look-so-normal/): And other questions that will make you go, “Wow! They’ll print just about anything these days.”
- [Freebie Prank Ideas](https://thestrand.ca/freebie-prank-ideas/): Only YOU can replenish the world’s lack of PRANKS!
- [Choosing your program of study](https://thestrand.ca/choosing-your-program-of-study/): Experiences and advice from upper-year students in STEM
- [The Freedom Convoy at the University of Toronto](https://thestrand.ca/the-freedom-convoy-at-the-university-of-toronto/): How the University community has responded to the Freedom Convoy protests
- [Russia’s invasion of Ukraine](https://thestrand.ca/russias-invasion-of-ukraine/): What you need to know, as explained by Ukrainian voices on campus
- [As governments relax pandemic restrictions, UofT’s policies hold strong](https://thestrand.ca/as-governments-relax-pandemic-restrictions-uofts-policies-hold-strong/): The UCheck system, indoor masking, and vaccination requirements will continue for the foreseeable future
- [Church and Vic](https://thestrand.ca/church-and-vic/): A history
- [Phantasm](https://thestrand.ca/phantasm/): Reflections on illusions
- [<i>How to Fix Radios</i>, a year later](https://thestrand.ca/how-to-fix-radios-a-year-later/): An interview with director Casper Leonard
- [Going back to 505](https://thestrand.ca/going-back-to-505/): A liminal space for Arctic Monkeys
- [2000 years before Lady Gaga, Jesus believed that we were “born this way”](https://thestrand.ca/2000-years-before-lady-gaga-jesus-believed-that-we-were-born-this-way/): A conversation with Cheri DiNovo about learning to love yourself as a queer Christian
- [Special research summary: Students as diversity workers](https://thestrand.ca/special-research-summary-students-as-diversity-workers/): Black student activists at UofT explore the challenges and rewards of their work
- [Unravelled: Love is green](https://thestrand.ca/unravelled-love-is-green/): Student activists launch Divest Vic! campaign
- [Unravelled: Canadian astronomy conference rebuked by Mi’kmaw professor for handling of Indigeneity panel](https://thestrand.ca/canadian-astronomy-conference-rebuked-by-mikmaw-professor-for-handling-of-indigeneity-panel/): CASCA leadership denies intent to limit Indigenous content at conference
- [Unravelled: Ticket to dine](https://thestrand.ca/ticket-to-dine/): Burwash Dining Hall’s new system triggers eating disorder concerns
- [Unravelled: Renaming Ryerson House prompts questions about history of equity at Vic](https://thestrand.ca/renaming-ryerson-house-prompts-questions-about-history-of-equity-at-vic/): The decision to rename Ryerson House residence has brought attention to other concerns over equity at Victoria University
- [Unravelled: A foreign influence campaign is driving anti-vaccine sentiment](https://thestrand.ca/a-foreign-influence-campaign-is-driving-anti-vaccine-sentiment/): How to spot and resist manipulation techniques aimed to change your beliefs
- [Date the Strand, with VicPride](https://thestrand.ca/date-the-strand-with-vicpride/): The Dating Simulator
- [Let’s talk about sex!](https://thestrand.ca/lets-talk-about-sex/): Breaking the stigma one conversation at a time
- [Para“social” activity](https://thestrand.ca/parasocial-activity/): The spooky influence our parasocial friends wield
- [Local sex workers help combat COVID-19](https://thestrand.ca/local-sex-workers-help-combat-covid-19/): Zanzibar’s role in the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines
- [Eight LGBTQ+ scientists you should know about](https://thestrand.ca/eight-lgbtq-scientists-you-should-know-about/): Science is queerer than you think
- [<i>The Strand</i> cordially invites you to bite us!](https://thestrand.ca/the-strand-cordially-invites-you-to-bite-us/): Our team’s hot takes on love
- [LGBTQ+ representation in Doctor Who](https://thestrand.ca/lgbtq-representation-in-doctor-who/): A downgrade from 2005?
- [Do I have to call sex “making love”?](https://thestrand.ca/do-i-have-to-call-sex-making-love/): Dear Saucy Suzy, I like to pork it. I can do the nasty as well as the next guy, don’t you worry. Oh yeah, I can get reallllll sticky. That’s not the problem. The problem is that my girlfriend only likes it when I call sex “making love.” But the thing is…I just don’t look
- [How Deleting TikTok Has Made Me a Better Lover](https://thestrand.ca/how-deleting-tiktok-has-made-me-a-better-lover/): This January 3, 2022, I did one of the hardest things anybody could do: I ended a two-year long relationship. It was a mutual break up (that’s what they always say, isn’t it?)—it was just better this way. But as any lover will tell you, all the platitudes in the world cannot assuage the pain
- [Please don't be my Valentine](https://thestrand.ca/please-dont-be-my-valentine/): An aromantic look at romance everywhere
- [An ode to late bloomers](https://thestrand.ca/an-ode-to-late-bloomers/): Don’t worry, there’s nothing wrong with you
- [Bill C-4: The federal government’s ban on conversion therapy](https://thestrand.ca/bill-c-4-the-federal-governments-ban-on-conversion-therapy/): What Bill C-4 means for the fight against conversion therapy and LGBTQ2SIA+ rights in Canada
- [Church and Wellesley’s inclusive appearance: fact or fiction?](https://thestrand.ca/church-and-wellesleys-inclusive-appearance-fact-or-fiction/): The lack of intersectionality in Toronto’s queer community
- [Why polyamory is the only way to solve love triangles](https://thestrand.ca/why-polyamory-is-the-only-way-to-solve-love-triangles/): On Xiran Jay Zhao's Iron Widow
- [VicPride is back in action](https://thestrand.ca/vicpride-is-back-in-action/): Our team revived a levy we were determined not to let disappear
- [What then? What now?](https://thestrand.ca/a-message-from-the-events-director-of-blvck-lashae-l-watson/): A message from the Events Director of BLVCK, Lashae L. Watson
- [On creating opportunities instead of chasing them](https://thestrand.ca/how-the-glam-club-was-founded/): How the GLAM club was founded
- [I’m a Caf-<i>fiend</i>](https://thestrand.ca/im-a-caf-fiend/): Behind the scenes of being a Caffiends volunteer
- [Vic’s got talent!](https://thestrand.ca/vics-got-talent/): How Vic Records strengthened my love for music
- [Community in times like these](https://thestrand.ca/a-piece-of-vic-community-in-times-like-these/): How VISA builds communities like no other
- [Spiritual money for the dead offered to graduate students by University of Toronto residence on Chinese New Year](https://thestrand.ca/spiritual-money-for-the-dead-offered-by-university-of-toronto-residence-to-graduate-students-on-chinese-new-year/): University apologizes, oversight seen as deeply disrespectful and negligent by community
- [The decline of the influencer](https://thestrand.ca/the-decline-of-the-influencer/): The complex role the status occupies in our present society
- [West Side Story bombed at the box office](https://thestrand.ca/what-now/): What now?
- [Eight New Releases by Black Writers to Add to Your TBR ASAP](https://thestrand.ca/eight-new-releases-by-black-writers-to-add-to-your-tbr-asap/): From a Get Out-esque social horror to a cutesy YA contemporary novel and everything in-between
- [BLVCKcellence](https://thestrand.ca/blvckcellence/): Celebrating beauty, creativity, diversity, love, culture
- [UofT launches Canada’s first Black Research Network](https://thestrand.ca/uoft-launches-canadas-first-black-research-network/): Celebrating Black excellence through mentorship, community, and investment
- [Dismantling racial disparities in healthcare: the Black Scientists’ Task Force on Vaccine Equity](https://thestrand.ca/dismantling-racial-disparities-in-healthcare-the-black-scientists-task-force-on-vaccine-equity/): In the fall of 2020, the Black Scientists’ Task Force on Vaccine Equity was assembled upon recommendation by the City of Toronto to address the stark inequalities in COVID-19 vaccination rates and barriers to vaccine uptake in Black communities. The Task Force, comprising a group of Black physicians, healthcare professionals, writers, and scholars, addresses the
- [“My Mama Said” so “Sorry in Advance”](https://thestrand.ca/my-mama-said-so-sorry-in-advance/): Poetry for the woman who taught me to be bright
- [Black influences on popular music](https://thestrand.ca/black-influences-on-popular-music/): What does Black Twitter have to say about K-pop Afrobeats?
- [Six reasons why the Black community runs Twitter](https://thestrand.ca/six-reasons-why-the-black-community-runs-twitter/): When Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, and Biz Stone founded Twitter back in 2006, I’m 60 percent sure that they didn’t know how much the app was going to blow up, and I’m 99 percent sure that they had no idea it would lead to a verified cultural phenomenon—Black Twitter. Twitter’s Black users, affectionately and simply
- [Straddling environmentalisms](https://thestrand.ca/straddling-environmentalisms/): A conversation with Kirk Johnson about sustainability policy, environmentalism, and being Black within the mainstream environmentalist movement
- [On celebrating Black fashion](https://thestrand.ca/on-celebrating-black-fashion/): From queer pioneers to contemporary models
- [Thank you, bell hooks](https://thestrand.ca/thank-you-bell-hooks/): A reflection on the intellectual giant and the legacy she left behind
- [Celebrating Black authors](https://thestrand.ca/celebrating-black-authors/): Brought to you by BLVCK
- [Artists rewrite history](https://thestrand.ca/artists-rewrite-history/): What Spike Lee gets right and wrong in his show, She's Gotta Have It
- [UNTWISTED: A Twister Tell-All](https://thestrand.ca/untwisted-a-twister-tell-all/): We twisted the brain of one of the most celebrated street artists of this century
- [Hopes and dreams](https://thestrand.ca/hopes-and-dreams/): Please, for the love of god, help me find them.
- [Finding family in fandom](https://thestrand.ca/finding-family-in-fandom/): Home is more than a place—it’s the people in it
- [Ask Saucy Suzy: How do you tell your best friend that she smells?](https://thestrand.ca/ask-saucy-suzy-how-do-you-tell-your-best-friend-that-she-smells/): Dear Saucy Suzy, My best friend Bianca smells like fruit. Well, more like fruit that rotted, was eaten by a pig, digested, and released out the other end. The point is, she doesn’t smell like a Bath & Body Works Sunshine Mimosa. When I tried to tell her that she was stinky, I ended up
- [Omicron in Ontario: where to get boosters and self tests as students](https://thestrand.ca/omicron-in-ontario-where-to-get-boosters-and-self-tests-as-students/): How to stay protected and safe following the rapid spike in Omicron cases
- [Following the search for a new president](https://thestrand.ca/following-the-search-for-a-new-president/): Victoria University continues to search for a new President and Vice-Chancellor
- [Omicron’s impact on campus life](https://thestrand.ca/omicrons-impact-on-campus-life/): Everything you need to know about recent changes
- [What Elle Woods taught me about applying to grad school](https://thestrand.ca/what-elle-woods-taught-me-about-applying-to-grad-school/): What, like it’s hard?
- [The natural disasters that struck 2021 and their link to climate change](https://thestrand.ca/the-natural-disasters-that-struck-2021-and-their-link-to-climate-change/): How extreme weather events work, the damage they inflict, and what can be done to mitigate their impacts
- [Vaccines versus variants](https://thestrand.ca/vaccines-versus-variants/): How can we keep up with an evolving pandemic?
- [Just Look Up](https://thestrand.ca/just-look-up/): A beginner’s guide to new year’s, apathy, and the apocalypse
- [Literary brilliance in YA fiction](https://thestrand.ca/literary-brilliance-in-ya-fiction/): Why young adult fiction belongs in the university classroom, and all other spaces where literature is discussed
- [I’m feeling (20)22](https://thestrand.ca/im-feeling-2022/): Taylor Swift was right when she said, “We’re happy, free, confused, and lonely at the same time”
- [Rediscovering home](https://thestrand.ca/rediscovering-home/): How relationships change for international students when they go abroad
- [2021 (<i>The Strand</i>’s Version)](https://thestrand.ca/2021-the-strands-version/): The Strand reflects on a bittersweet year
- [Book it to the library](https://thestrand.ca/book-it-to-the-library/): I read 182 books last year and I have some opinions for your 2022 reading
- [Illness and escape: blockbuster release during Omicron](https://thestrand.ca/illness-and-escape-blockbuster-release-during-omicron/): Ticket sales for a superhero movie surged alongside the emergent variant
- [IN or OUT?](https://thestrand.ca/in-or-out/): Sorting through what we should take and leave behind in the New Year
- [19 going on OLD](https://thestrand.ca/19-going-on-old/): Reflections from a (former) teen on the monstrosity that is “growing up”
- [A History of Cake & Me](https://thestrand.ca/a-history-of-cake-and-me/): A History of Cake & Me Words and Visuals byMaddie Corradi Content warning: disordered eating. Since the pandemic started, my brother David and I have settled onto the couch after dinner to watch whatever TV show we’ve chosen to obsess over. Lockdown started something that our previously distracted lives couldn’t: a ritual in a world
- [The five friendliest goose men on campus and what it will cost you to buy their finest goose](https://thestrand.ca/the-five-friendliest-goose-men-on-campus-and-what-it-will-cost-you-to-buy-their-finest-goose/): Don’t be obtuse, buy a goose!
- [You don’t know Jack](https://thestrand.ca/you-dont-know-jack/): On the twenty-fifth anniversary of his death, Jack Nance lives on
- [Victoria College's review for the selection of the president](https://thestrand.ca/victoria-colleges-review-for-the-selection-of-the-president/): Victoria University has officially begun the process of selecting a new president of the University, to be announced in 2022
- [The legacy of discrimination in David Gilmour’s classroom](https://thestrand.ca/legacy-discrimination-gilmour/): Victoria College allowed David Gilmour’s bigoted practices to continue for over a decade, before his recent departure
- [<i>Pulse Topology</i>: A collective artwork of light and sound](https://thestrand.ca/pulse-topology/): An installation with over 3,000 lights invites viewers to contribute their heartbeats to the collection
- [What your comfort hate-watch says about you](https://thestrand.ca/what-your-comfort-hate-watch-says-about-you/): Don’t worry, we’re only judging you because it’s our job
- [Sarcasm: It Always Translates <i>Super</i> Well](https://thestrand.ca/sarcasm-it-always-translates-super-well/): No surprises there!
- [Haunted by Libras](https://thestrand.ca/haunted-by-libras/): If astrology is fake then explain this!!
- [Ask Saucy Suzy: How do you get past farting during sex?](https://thestrand.ca/ask-saucy-suzy-how-do-you-get-past-farting-during-sex/): Dear Saucy Suzy, This feels really embarrassing, but I’m just gonna come out and say it. How do you get past farting during sex? My boyfriend was on top of me when I accidentally let one rip. I didn’t even think my anal flower could relax enough in front of him for that to happen,
- [Unpacking the crypto craze in university students](https://thestrand.ca/unpacking-the-crypto-craze-in-university-students/): Crypto’s growing appeal to university students has numerous stakeholders weighing in on the legitimacy and future prospects of the digital currency
- [Life on the move in a warming world](https://thestrand.ca/life-on-the-move-in-a-warming-world/): The impact of mitigating climate change on the behaviours and movements of vulnerable ectotherms
- [TikTok versus Vine](https://thestrand.ca/tiktok-versus-vine/): It’s time to settle the debate, and the results are in: TikTok is a better platform than Vine. Hear me out.
- [Unpacking the Astroworld tragedy](https://thestrand.ca/unpacking-the-astroworld-tragedy/): Content warning: mention of injury and death I’d like to bring us back to the fall of 2019. During this time, I was experiencing a classic case of midterm procrastination. My forays into online dating meant that the perfect way to spend my Thursday night was to go for drinks with an algorithmically compatible stranger.
- [How <i>Rock Band</i> revolutionized my reading week experience](https://thestrand.ca/how-rock-band-revolutionized-my-reading-week-experience/): I fundamentally believe that Rock Band is the single greatest bonding experience. Not convinced? I have a case study. My friend invited me up to her farm with a bunch of her friends for reading week. I was elated and prepared to have a fire week. However, I didn’t know everyone who would be in
- [Searching for something fun to do on (or off) campus towards the end of the semester?](https://thestrand.ca/searching-for-something-fun-to-do-on-or-off-campus-towards-the-end-of-the-semester/): Look no further!
- [On making moodboards and dreamscapes](https://thestrand.ca/on-making-moodboards-and-dreamscapes/): Pinterest as the anti-social media
- [Interview with Eric Walters](https://thestrand.ca/interview-with-eric-walters/): Canadian author Eric Walters discusses challenges, perseverance, and hope in his childhood, work, and life
- [Take the <i>Voyage</i> with me](https://thestrand.ca/take-the-voyage-with-me/): An honest review of ABBA’s new album
- [Sexual Violence Prevention and Support Centre at UofT responds to sexual violence at Western University](https://thestrand.ca/sexual-violence-prevention-and-support-centre-at-uoft-responds-to-sexual-violence-at-western-university/): Content warning: discussion of assault, sexual violence, and death In recent weeks, 30 young women at the Western University have reported being survivors of sexual violence. In response, the London Police Service opened an investigation into these allegations made across social media, with LPS Police Chief Steve Williams noting that “information and misinformation swirls around”
- [<i>The Strand</i> reviews <i>Sex Education</i> season three](https://thestrand.ca/ithe-strand-i-reviews-isex-educationi-season-three/): Better than its second, but does it live up to the first?
- [Everyone’s a goddamn phoney](https://thestrand.ca/everyones-a-goddamn-phoney/): The deep philosophical underpinnings of “cringe”
- [When science can’t be trusted](https://thestrand.ca/when-science-cant-be-trusted/): The growing replication crisis plaguing our papers
- [Benzos, barbiturates, and bioinformatics](https://thestrand.ca/benzos-barbiturates-and-bioinformatics/): A brief look at how computation has changed the face of drug discovery
- [On loving and hating white women](https://thestrand.ca/on-loving-and-hating-white-women/): Reflections on the unlearning of internalized racism
- [What your bug-squashing technique says about you](https://thestrand.ca/what-your-bug-squashing-technique-says-about-you/): I seriously need to start upping my pest extermination skills…
- [The 3 thoughts that cycle through my head every time I see my face when the screen goes dark at the end of a Netflix episode](https://thestrand.ca/the-3-thoughts-that-cycle-through-my-head-every-time-i-see-my-face-when-the-screen-goes-dark-at-the-end-of-a-netflix-episode/): 1. ¿Holy guacamole, is that my face? *faint gasp of disgust* Yo, the angle at which I watch shit on my phone is actually disgusting. And my hair is always in some sort of a weird top-bun that looks like a beehive that a bear got ahold of. I feel bad for my FBI agent
- [Shower thoughts](https://thestrand.ca/shower-thoughts/): Is it just Herbal Essences, or is it a potion that reveals life's essential truths?
- [Things you’ve lost](https://thestrand.ca/things-youve-lost/): Find them again here!
- [Election reflection](https://thestrand.ca/election-reflection/): For the fifteenth year in a row, global freedom declined in 2020, according to the American non-profit organization Freedom House. This democratic downturn was hastened by the COVID-19 pandemic, as autocrats ranging from Hungary's Orbán Viktor to Ethiopia’s Abiy Ahmed abused their emergency powers to consolidate control over their countries. Democracy is under attack worldwide,
- [Remembering Norm Macdonald, a relentless original](https://thestrand.ca/remembering-norm-macdonald-a-relentless-original/): Norm Macdonald’s death this past September came out of nowhere. The 61-year-old comic, known for his time on Saturday Night Live in the 1990s, had been diagnosed with cancer nine years ago. Keeping the diagnosis under wraps made the announcement of his death all the more shocking––it was also an incredibly Norm Macdonald thing to
- [The “underground man” in pandemic times](https://thestrand.ca/the-underground-man-in-pandemic-times/): At the start of the pandemic, we saw the appearance of a peculiar type of character who has become symbolic of the political division and the misinformation of our time. This emergence has made some of our family gatherings awkward and unfortunate events. Many of us have had to block or unfollow certain people on
- [Students hit hard by last-minute course delivery changes](https://thestrand.ca/students-hit-hard-by-last-minute-course-delivery-changes/): Here’s what they have to say about it
- [VUSAC Fall 2021 elections results](https://thestrand.ca/vusac-fall-2021-elections-results/): A summary of the election winners for the contested positions in this fall’s VUSAC elections
- [Journalism as storytelling](https://thestrand.ca/journalism-as-storytelling/): Putting the "story" back in "news story"
- [<i>The Strand</i> reviews <i>Salt-Water Moon</i>](https://thestrand.ca/the-strand-reviews-salt-water-moon/): In-person theatre is back, baby!
- [Take to the streets, not the red carpet](https://thestrand.ca/take-to-the-streets-not-the-red-carpet/): Performative celebrity activism at the 2021 Met Gala
- [Toronto through the camera lens](https://thestrand.ca/toronto-through-the-camera-lens/): Tour some of Toronto's most iconic TV and movie locations
- [Internalised racism and "double consciousness"](https://thestrand.ca/internalised-racism-and-double-consciousness/): W.E.B. Du Bois's “double consciousness” and my experience with it
- [Incoming: Hot Girl Fall!](https://thestrand.ca/incoming-hot-girl-fall/): Don’t let the lack of sunshine rain on your hot girl parade—here are 5 tips to rule Hot Girl Fall
- [A “critical reading” of Sandra Oh’s <i>The Chair</i>](https://thestrand.ca/a-critical-reading-of-sandra-ohs-the-chair/): Why should we care about literature in the modern age?
- [<i>In the Heights</i>: An American dream](https://thestrand.ca/in-the-heights-an-american-dream/): "Say it, so it doesn't disappear."
- [Summer reflections](https://thestrand.ca/summer-reflections/): How a seemingly uneventful summer revealed new things about myself, and how it will change the course of my academic career
- [Not my coming-of-age movie](https://thestrand.ca/not-my-coming-of-age-movie/): Standing at the crossroads between film and race
- [Woman Committed to Overcoming Oppression Also Interested In Making Life Harder for Herself All of the Fucking Time](https://thestrand.ca/woman-committed-to-overcoming-oppression-also-interested-in-making-life-harder-for-herself-all-of-the-fucking-time/): You have to pick your battles and I guess I choose those big systemic ones
- [Boba is NOT good.](https://thestrand.ca/boba-is-not-good/): Y’all just have too much indigestion to see the truth
- [A tour of Robarts’s Area 51, A.K.A. the seventh floor](https://thestrand.ca/a-tour-of-robartss-area-51-a-k-a-the-seventh-floor/): (Caution: Enter at your own risk. Escape is NOT guaranteed.)
- [A new normal](https://thestrand.ca/a-new-normal/): This past summer, I developed the habit of taking walks around my neighbourhood. It was partly because I hoped a change of scenery every now and then would reignite my stifled creativity, but it was mostly because my parents begged me to do something other than watch Netflix in bed all day (fair enough). By
- [How will the 4th wave shape the beginning of this semester?](https://thestrand.ca/how-will-the-4th-wave-shape-the-beginning-of-this-semester/): Despite public health efforts, COVID-19 cases continue to rise in Ontario, prompting doubts over whether classes and activities will be able to continue in person this semester
- [Balancing school while battling a pandemic](https://thestrand.ca/balancing-school-while-battling-a-pandemic/): On November 9, 2020, pharmaceutical company Pfizer Inc. announced that their vaccine candidate against COVID-19 was found to be successful in Phase 3 trials. Shortly after, on December 21, Ontario hospital Trillium Health Partners administered their first COVID-19 vaccine in the Peel Region. The rapid development of Trillium Health Partners’ vaccine clinic can be attributed
- [Burnt out](https://thestrand.ca/burnt-out/): The science behind burnout
- [Beyond Monet](https://thestrand.ca/beyond-monet/): Accessible art in Toronto
- [Bookstore budget battles](https://thestrand.ca/bookstore-budget-battles/): Unpacking the exorbitant textbook prices that haunt my parents’ pockets
- [Trapped at the border: flying in a vaccine-inequitable world](https://thestrand.ca/international-vaccine-travel/): International students discuss returning to Canada after two years of COVID-19
- [I’m asexual, but 2D characters are the exception](https://thestrand.ca/im-asexual-but-2d-characters-are-the-exception/): Why attraction to fictional characters doesn’t define your sexuality
- [Post-pandemic art](https://thestrand.ca/post-pandemic-art/): How might future media portray life during the COVID-19 pandemic?
- [Marvel’s <i>Shang-Chi</i>](https://thestrand.ca/marvels-shang-chi/): An experience, not an experiment
- [TIFF 2021: a return to in-person](https://thestrand.ca/tiff-2021-a-return-to-in-person/): TIFF is back to normal! Except not really. But kind of!
- [VUSAC candidate: Tazneen Tamanna Mahmud](https://thestrand.ca/vusac-candidate-tazneen-mahmud/): Tazneen Tamanna Mahmud is running for VUSAC International Councillor.
- [VUSAC election profiles](https://thestrand.ca/vusac-election-profiles/): Your all-in-one guide to this year’s candidates
- [VUSAC candidate: Kyra Menezes](https://thestrand.ca/vusac-candidate-kyra-menezes/): Kyra Menezes is running for VUSAC Mental Wellness Commissioner.
- [VUSAC candidate: Erin Hill](https://thestrand.ca/vusac-candidate-erin-hill/): Erin Hill is running for VUSAC Mental Wellness Commissioner.
- [VUSAC candidate: Cameron Miranda-Radbord](https://thestrand.ca/vusac-candidate-cameron-miranda-radbord/): Cameron Miranda-Radbord is running for VUSAC Equity Commissioner.
- [VUSAC candidate: Tabina Ahmed](https://thestrand.ca/vusac-candidate-tabina-ahmed/): Tabina Ahmed is running for VUSAC Vice-President Internal.
- [VUSAC candidate: Alyssa Nurse](https://thestrand.ca/vusac-candidate-alyssa-nurse/): Alyssa Nurse is running for VUSAC International Councillor.
- [VUSAC candidate: Jack Liu](https://thestrand.ca/vusac-candidate-jack-liu/): Jack Liu is running for VUSAC Councillor.
- [VUSAC candidate: Dixshant Shreemal](https://thestrand.ca/vusac-candidate-dixshant-shreemal/): Dixshant Shreemal is running for VUSAC Councillor.
- [VUSAC candidate: David Zhang](https://thestrand.ca/vusac-candidate-david-zhang/): David Zhang is running for VUSAC Councillor.
- [VUSAC candidate: Tiffany Seo](https://thestrand.ca/vusac-candidate-tiffany-seo/): Tiffany Seo is running for VUSAC Councillor.
- [VUSAC candidate: Elsa Jia](https://thestrand.ca/vusac-candidate-elsa-jia/): Elsa Jia is running for VUSAC Councillor.
- [VUSAC candidate: Shane Joy](https://thestrand.ca/vusac-candidate-shane-joy/): Shane Joy is running for VUSAC Councillor.
- [VUSAC candidate: Rebecca Muscant](https://thestrand.ca/vusac-candidate-rebecca-muscant/): Rebecca Muscant is running for VUSAC Councillor.
- [VUSAC candidate: Bright Anthony](https://thestrand.ca/vusac-candidate-bright-anthony/): Bright Anthony is running for VUSAC Councillor.
- [The Strand: 'Old' School](https://thestrand.ca/the-strand-old-school/): The new academic year is starting with the old ways of teaching. Many of us are nervous about what it is going to take for us to be our best selves. In this podcast, Khadija (3rd year) and Sidharth (2nd year) talk about in-person classes, exams, making friends, overloading on coffee, and a lot more to prepare 1st and 2nd-year students of what is to come and remind seniors that the old days are back!
- [Arriving in 45 minutes](https://thestrand.ca/arriving-in-45-minutes/): My guided love letter to the commute
- [Becoming a wimpy man](https://thestrand.ca/becoming-a-wimpy-man/): Representations of masculinity in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid movie
- [Fight and the City](https://thestrand.ca/fight-and-the-city/): Throughout Sex and the City, Carrie Bradshaw ponders what makes the ideal lover. But what makes any lover the ideal fighter?

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