With a swipe-based interface, dating apps like Tinder and Bumble mimic social media platforms and allow for a constant stream of validation. This interface essentially “gamifies” dating, according to Goldsmith — making dating apps addictive.
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Madeline Laurendeau is a second-year geography student and activist who is among 15 other youth suing the federal government over climate change.
To a lot of us, intimacy is physical. It’s sexual. It's a touch wrapped around feelings and emotions for the person you’re going to share some of the deepest aspects of your life (and body) with.
If only I were Aphrodite, an all-knowing goddess...
After last year's historically uncontested AMS election with a turnout of only 6.9 per cent, what has the AMS done to boost this year's voter engagement?
Over the years, a lot of attempts have been made to quantify the vastness of Mumbai into a couple of lines. The struggle is coalescing such a detailed mosaic of neighbourhoods vibrant enough to be their own cities into one simple slogan to slap onto a tourism brochure or Instagram bio.
As Maia Wallace sat watching MTV and America's Next Top Model with her mum, she knew that she wanted to be just like the women on her TV screen one day.
Eshana Bhangu is "ready to kick some ass" as your new AMS president
Shirin Eshghi Furuzawa never planned to become a librarian.
Liam Hart founded UBC drag to try to bring some Queer nightlife to UBC.
“If you take the Bangladeshi out of me, there’s no cultural context to my existence. If you take my sexuality out of me, there’s no context for my reasons to love someone. And if you take the Muslim out of me, I have no spiritual context. These three are very fundamental to my existence. But who gets to see all three of them at one time?”
Chow found getting accommodations through UBC fairly easy because they had a diagnosis. Accommodations, rooted in policy LR7, require a diagnosis but getting diagnosed with autism in BC is not an easy or affordable task.
Kimani Karangu was the GSS president through the pandemic. But he didn’t let that stop him.
It was meant to be a fun night out. It turned into anything but that.
2022/23 GSS President Samsel Kenston is a doctor, father and lifelong advocate.