Haley Branch, a fifth-year PhD student, had an unusual road to academia. Now she is advocating for other disabled students' rights to be in academia
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George Chaffee has always been skilled in the three things the Kwikwetlem nation really cares about: archaeology, the environment and fishing.
Such a devastating loss hangs heavy over the UBC community.
Here is what each of the major four parties says they will do to combat the overdose crisis, so you can go into the Federal election informed.
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Since joining UBC Climate Hub Nafeesa Alibhai’s activism is “full steam ahead or full electric engine power ahead.”
“My default position for Board meetings would be that things should be open to the extent they can be,” McKenzie said.
“I think that the most important thing I do is teach … [and] what I hope that does is invite [students] into scholarship."
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Dating apps are simultaneously terrible and incredibly addicting.
Most women of colour will tell you how every time they start getting that gross feeling in their stomach, one of the first things that pops into our minds is the question: “But what if they don’t like (insert ethnicity)?”
Love languages. Attachment styles. Kinks.
“i dip my feet / and paint my nails / in your ocean of misogyny”
"When I started getting tattoos, I gained a lot of confidence and started looking at my body [as] something beautiful,” Menzies wrote in an email to The Ubyssey.
“I thought you said you were ready.”
I thought that people would at least make an effort to get to know me, especially if our personalities seemed to match. But all they saw was a short, not-skinny girl of Chinese descent.
According to Seeking Arrangements, 71 UBC students used the app in 2020. This places the school 17th out of all Canadian schools for users.
roar for the parts of you / that go unsold
You don’t need an orgasm to have good sex, and the pressure to make one happen can make sex bad.
If my personal choice to expose myself to some horny dude’s dishonesty could inadvertently transmit the coronavirus to people I care about, that exclusive agency over sexual autonomy fades.
Both Facknitz and Cook stressed that their disabilities are an integral part of who they are and far from a bad thing. Because of this, it’s important to them that their disability is not treated like an aside, but rather an intrinsic part of who they are.
The most compelling thought about autonomy that I was exposed to in my undergrad was during a conversation about chlamydia.
In a time where we can no longer hug, touch or even stand less than six feet away from one another, what does autonomy look like in the context of the greater good?
“My default position for Board meetings would be that things should be open to the extent they can be,” McKenzie said.