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In a time where we can longer hug, touch or even stand less than six feet away from one other, what does autonomy look like in the context of the greater good?

The declassified Tinder survival guide for women of colour online

Dating apps are simultaneously terrible and incredibly addicting.

Danni Olusanya Features March 4, 2021

Dating apps as a brown woman

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)?”

Farzeen Ather Features March 4, 2021

Learning more about yourself makes sex better

Love languages. Attachment styles. Kinks.

Sam Smart Features March 4, 2021

Survival guide for the 21st-century ‘slut’

“i dip my feet / and paint my nails / in your ocean of misogyny”

Shanai Tanwar Features March 4, 2021

Holding space: How local artists transform trauma into art

"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.

Bailey Martens Features March 4, 2021

I thought I was ready

“I thought you said you were ready.”

Tianne Jensen-DesJardins Features March 4, 2021

Love in a (Instagram) bottle

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.

Winnie Ha Features March 4, 2021

No private jets or unlimited bank accounts. Being a sugar baby is not what you think.

According to Seeking Arrangements, 71 UBC students used the app in 2020. This places the school 17th out of all Canadian schools for users.

Paloma Green Features March 4, 2021

Dance for me

roar for the parts of you / that go unsold

Shanai Tanwar Features March 4, 2021

Orgasms aren’t necessary for good sex

You don’t need an orgasm to have good sex, and the pressure to make one happen can make sex bad.

Lindsey Palmer and Nafeesa Alibhai Features March 4, 2021

Ask to unmask: Consent and boundaries on COVID-19 tinder

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.

Tova Gaster Features March 4, 2021

Dating with a disability is hard. But disabled UBC students embrace their bodies.

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.

Bailey Martens Features March 4, 2021

A sexual (health) fantasy

The most compelling thought about autonomy that I was exposed to in my undergrad was during a conversation about chlamydia.

Sophia Russo Features March 4, 2021

Autonomy: Letter from the editors

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?

Danni Olusanya, Bailey Martens and Sam Smart Features March 4, 2021