Dear readers, February is a month for celebration. It is Black Futures/History month, and we are so grateful to our Black contributors, readers, and creators for being part of our little community. In celebration of our Black creators, we invite you to take a look at some seminal writing we have published in The Strand, […]
Getting through the next semester
A universally awful situation Read More »
Coping with having to cope
Accountability in the face of uncertainty Read More »
On February 29, 1956, the masthead of The Strand outlined their intent for the coming academic year as follows: “First of all, The Strand is written for the Vic student. It is the wish of myself and the staff to make this paper as interesting as possible. Our aim is to make The Strand the
Past, present, future Read More »
In the coming-of-age stories we read in high school, university was presented as a place in which we would finally be comfortable with ourselves. Suddenly, when thrown into a much larger group of peers, you would somehow find groups of people more like yourself. For many, this is not the case. University can be an
Finding comfort in discomfort Read More »
If you’re reading The Strand for the first time, we’d like to welcome you to our community, and we hope that you’ll have an amazing start to your time at UofT. To our returning readers, thank you for returning, and welcome back to school. It’s impossible to look forward to the fall semester without considering
Looking back, moving forward Read More »
It should not take Black death to acknowledge Black life. Black Lives Matter is not a new movement: its official formation was pioneered by Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi in 2013 after the police-shooting death of Trayvon Martin. The global resurgence of the movement in the past week has made it clear that
Black Lives Matter Read More »
It feels like everything in the news is making me upset these days. From COVID-19 to the violence that the Wet’suwet’en land protectors have experienced to the Democratic primaries in the States, trying to stay informed has been incredibly stressful. It’s easy to fall into a rabbit hole of bad news: there’s a coronavirus death
Stories about change and action Read More »
The first time I said “I love you” to my current boyfriend was over Facebook messenger. It was the summer of 2017. We had been dating for about three months at that point. The details of that night, once so important and precious to me, are now secondary to this one moment. I realized I
I love you, most ardently Read More »
