Reflections on a quarantined summer
How I travelled around the world during the pandemic
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Arts and Culture
Software skills that students need to master throughout university
Try to learn these five software programs before graduation
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Jazz: A Lesson in Allyship, Expression, and Social Change
This is a time of justified anger, rage, and desperation. Two hundred years of institutionalized slavery, followed by 200 more years of de facto slavery through sharecropping, Jim Crow laws, the War on Drugs, and the prison-industrial complex—all of these have relegated Black communities to the status of second-class citizenship in North America. Outline the
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Unsanitized UofT: an introduction letter
Dear kind readers, We are Unsanitized UofT. Our platform represents the manifestation of a community’s need for education and peaceful dialogue surrounding racial injustice against BIPOC and marginalized groups. Galvanized by the Black Lives Matter movement, Unsanitized seeks to provide an outlet for students at UofT to voice their unexpurgated truth and educate one another
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An interview with Samana Sajan
Student and author of I Spoke with the Moon and This Is What She Told Me It’s not every day you meet someone who truly epitomizes what it means to be an artist. Currently double-majoring in English and Religion at UofT, Samana Sajan is also an actress and poet who has always found exquisite beauty
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How sites like Pornhub profit directly from the distribution of child pornography
Holding the online porn industry responsible for its complacency regarding non-consensual sex Sometime in the past six or so years, the world’s largest porn site decided it needed a new image. In September 2014, Pornhub announced that for every one hundred videos watched, it would plant a tree. The internet responded with a mixture of
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Review: I Am Not Okay with This
Another look at how we handle what we can’t possibly expect Trigger warning: Mentions of suicide “Dear diary”: the first words of I Am Not Okay with This, the Netflix series based on the Charles Forsman comic. We meet Sydney Novak, or Syd, covered in blood wearing dog tags, the narrator for the show. We
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Please, go to a Slam Show
The year is 2020 and I’m worried that we’ve forgotten what poetry sounds like. Our particular artistic epoch’s favoured form is, for lack of a better term, Instagram poetry. A lot has been said about Insta poets which I will not repeat here! But I will say that much of it reads like slam poetry
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Let’s talk about love, baby!
As Valentine’s Day approaches, the smell of capitalist-curated love intertwines in the air with the a whiff of desperation as couples either try to figure out their V-Day plans or attempt to break up in a nice way so they can stay in bed watching Netflix on the 14th. I genuinely love love and I LOVED making a corny, wholesome, and horny playlist for this sacred issue. Given that
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