Aysha White
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Opinions
Don’t@Me: Pantone’s Colour of the Year Is an Embarrassment to Nice Colours
Classic Blue (ew) was chosen this year, supposedly to represent the sky at dusk. I think it looks more like the colour of a middle-management Midwesterner’s button-down. Boring, stale, and conservative.
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Fringe Arts
Book Review: Love Speech by Xiaoxuan / Sherry Huang
Love Speech by Xiaxouan / Sherry Huang is a short auto-theoretical reflection on the nature of language, what makes it hurtful or loving. It is both dense and poetic; written and illustrated; prosaic and photographic.
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Fringe Arts
‘Christianity Made Me a Slut’ (For This Play!)
This one-woman play was one of the standouts of this year’s Fringe Festival.
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Fringe Arts
HydroFlora: Combining Hydroponics, Humanitariansim, and Aesthetics in Concordia’s Greenhouse
An examination of the Concordia greenhouse based organization HydroFlora, that aims to educate the community about urban agriculture and sustainable practices.
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Fringe Arts
Smitten With Kittens: Appreciating Cats and Art in Montreal
Learn about spaces in Montreal that are devoted to appreciating the feline form: Café Chato and NDG’s Alley Cat Gallery.
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Fringe Arts
Peep the Programming for the 2019 Edition of Art Matters
Learn about the 2019 edition of Concordia’s Art Matters festival.
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Opinions
Sex Editorial: Sexually Submissive Men Have Something to Say
What is lacking about the mainstream depictions of BDSM is variety.
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Fringe Arts
Montreal’s Comedy at the Artloft Promises Real Time Laughter in a Cosy Space
The Artloft, without question, is one of the current standouts of Montreal’s art scene. Not comedy scene, but of all art available here as a whole. Is this a big statement? Yes. Is the title deserved? Yes. The space could be considered an art gallery, a living archive of Montreal’s collective artistic presence in the last two years.
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Fringe Arts
Theran Seaton Collected Dolls for Ten Years and Turned Them Into Art
Theran Seaton’s art celebrates the beauty of Blackness with a sample of her doll collection and colourful woodcuts of her sister’s braids.
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Fringe Arts
“FLEM” Is About a Girl Who Picks Her Nose⎼But You Will Want a Tissue for Your Tears
FLEM is about a young woman named Julia who compulsively picks her nose. The graphic novel by Brussels-based, Montreal artist Rebecca Rosen is a short, yet intense read with a climax that feels like a punch in the face.
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Opinions
I am Mad and I Do Not Feel Bad (About Expressing it in Healthy and Productive Ways, That Is)
I don’t enjoy conflict but I’m also not afraid of confrontation, a trait that women are not socialized to have.
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Fringe Arts
The Artists of the Future Are Here and They’re Making Memes
An interview with meme artists, @goldnosering and Aiden Arata.
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Fringe Arts
“Madame Victoria”: a Book About a Skull and Imaginary Women That Makes You Ponder Life
The novel is based on the real finding of human remains of a woman in the forest nearby the Royal Victoria Hospital of Montreal. Despite performing DNA tests and creating a forensic reconstruction of her face, the body was never identified.
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Fringe Arts
SistersInMotion is a Montreal Based Organization Committed to Empowering Women of Colour
La Luna said that fostering and encouraging a connection to the Earth and the natural world is part of SIM’s goal as both a movement and organization. The distinction between the two is subtle, but relevant in understanding the purpose of a group as multifaceted as SIM.
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Fringe Arts
Have You Ever Wondered What it’s Like to Act as a Racialized Person?
Meet Kareem Alleyne and Alexandra Laferriere. Both are professional actors. Both are Black. Both worked (primarily) on the anglophone side of Montreal’s performing arts community.
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Special Issue
Toolkit for New and Returning Concordia Students
Here are some handy resources for new and returning students.
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Fringe Arts
Review: Gab Bois’s House Party Exhibition at MURAL Festival
You may have seen Gab Bois’s photography on Instagram.
She toys with concepts of accepted reality by taking everyday household objects out of context to startle the viewer, playing with their perception of what is real and surreal. -
Fringe Arts
Festivulve Celebrates the Diversity of the Vulva
It was all about the vulva, in quite literally any shape, form, or colour at the first edition of Festivulve.