Special Issue
The Link’s Annual Women’s Issue
First things first—we have made incredible gains. Let us not deny that; let us not forget that, or denigrate that. The women and men who have come before us have brought us to a good, solid place. In many ways, women and men in North America right now are…
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Objects of Our Affection
Walking Wombs and The Medical Mediation of Childbirth
We’ve all heard the story. Woman gets pregnant and becomes an irrational, moody animal capable of biting the head off of her own husband. Husband runs around to satisfy her whimsical wishes and cravings, as she puts on weight and takes interest in interior design.
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The Porn Identity
How Modern Smut Is Shaping Our Minds—and Bodies
Everyone needs to get off. Whether it’s once in a blue moon, or every hour on the hour, human beings have urges. For many, the best way to satisfy them is to watch pornography.
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Something You’re Not
Performing Femininity in the Workplace
I am no longer read as a woman. I have a deep enough voice and enough body hair that it is never in question any longer. I look dudely, and nobody questions my gender. I absolutely cannot go into women’s bathrooms or locker rooms anymore. As a female-to-male transexual, this is quite the relief.
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Failing the Test
Alison Bechdel and the Cult of the Filmic Man
There’s this recurring motif to conversations about films that they don’t actually matter and what goes on in a movie isn’t important—it’s just a movie. It’s not real life.
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Invisible on Campus
Rape Survivors and Sexual Assault Centres
Nearly a quarter of female university students will have experienced a sexual assault by the time they graduate.
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No Queer Girls Are Queerer Than Others
Resisting Femme Invisibility
Most people don’t think femme when they hear the word dyke. Femininity is often read as an indicator of a woman’s presumed heterosexuality—and most people don’t know just how queer femininity can be.
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A Selection of Poems
Most nights.
I alternate between wanting you to whisper the lyrics of Blue
Moon in my ear, or to talk about the pornos we could film
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A Trans Man’s Rant
What Not to Ask
Oliver Leon is The Link’s trans columnist, and he’s really tired of getting the same questions asked over and over again
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Greek Life
McGill’s Gay Fraternity a Canadian First
Let’s face it: the frat boy/sorority girl stereotype was born in the movies.
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Rub-a-Dub-Dub We Studs in a Tub
Bathhouses Still Steamy in 2012
Tall, athletic, handsome, an easy fit for the ‘jock’ label when it comes to gay subcategories, 21-year-old Concordia student “Connor” visits Sauna Oasis in the gay village every couple of weeks with his boyfriend, also a university student.