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 […]
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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
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
How our perceptions of who does science are wrong Since we were children, science was presented to us in a specific way: white lab coats, pipettes, and a man working at the laboratory bench. We grow up with preconceived notions of what science is and who does it. The current and historical systemic exclusion of
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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An overview of Vic’s Fall 2024 Caucus Administrative Reports Registrar Yvette Ali started the caucus with a report on the recent move of their office to the third floor of the Goldring Student Centre. When asked about the impact of recent government policies on international student visas, Ali stated that the percentage of international students
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