Aysha White
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Fringe Arts
Film Review: Learning That “Abu” Means “Father” in Urdu
In a traditional documentary, facts and data are holy to the filmmaker. Here, Arshad Khan has blended fact and fantasy, demonstrating the two in unison.
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News
FASA, Concordia Student Union Hold Talk on Exploitation in the Arts
Unpaid labour is an issue across many industries but it takes specific forms in the arts.
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Fringe Arts
Film Review: Unarmed Verses Demonstrates the Subtleties of Institutionalized Racism and Sexism
Cinema Politica screened unarmed Verses, a documentary film about race, gentrification, and art within a community.
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Opinions
Catcalled Out
This proposal does not seem to consider the intersectionality of people’s experiences while out in the space understood as “public,” where the proposed tickets would be handed out.
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Fringe Arts
Meet Some Artists From Art Matters’ 18th Edition
Concordia’s Art Matters Festival—North America’s largest Undergraduate arts festival—is just around the corner.
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Opinions
Sex Ed(itorial): The Complicated History of the IUD
The IUD itself is an innocent piece of technology but has been used for nefarious, racist, and neo-colonialist purposes.
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Fringe Arts
Theatre Review: Black Boys Aims to Make its Audience Think
Theatre company SAGA Collectif has teamed up with Buddies in Bad Times to give us their production of Black Boys, a play that addresses the differences between the three actors’ shared experience of being queer Black men.
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Fringe Arts
Panel Discussion: The Imbalance Between Curators and Artists
At the Can You Keep a Secret? panel, artists Aleesa Cohene and curator Matthew Hyland discussed their experiences in the different artist-curator relationships they’ve had and what both mediums should keep in mind in those situations.
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Fringe Arts
MALICIOUZ Paintings Empower the Black Female Form
The stairs leading up to MALICIOUZ’s studio reveal walls covered in drawings and graffiti. As you walk through the hallway leading to her studio, the characteristic catlike eyes of the women she paints stare at you from the back of a door.
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Fringe Arts
Marginalized Stories Take Centre Stage At Black Theatre Workshop
As Canada’s oldest Black theatre company, the Black Theatre Workshop has long asserted itself as a Canadian art pioneer. This year marks its 47th season putting on productions that resonate with Black communities in the city.
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Special Issue
For Multiracial Women, Hair Is a Political Statement
I have a weird ethnic first name (Aysha) and she has a weird ethnic last one (Ramnanan).
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Opinions
Quebec Learned Nothing From Last Year’s Mosque Shooting
Islamophobia is not actually an act of racial discrimination and conflating the two demonstrates a lack of sensitivity and understanding of the difference between race and religion.
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Fringe Arts
Sacred Fire Productions Brings Indigenous Art Into The Mainstream
As Canada moves to right the wrongs of its colonial past, Nadine St-Louis believes that must include the art world as well.
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Opinions
Nahm’sayin?: Glitter, Sparkles, Jewels, Oh My!
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Fringe Arts
Festival Review: The South Asian Film Festival of Montreal Aims to Open Up the Floor for Discussion
This year’s South Asian Film Festival of Montreal went off without a hitch, aiming to focus on diaspora and free expression in the form of film.
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Fringe Arts
What It’s Like to Be an Illustrator Ahead of Expozine
Every year since its inception in 2002, Montreal’s small press, zine, and comic making communities convene at Expozine, North America’s largest small press fair.
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Fringe Arts
Sundus Abdul Hadi is a Woman of Many Media
Artist, radio host, mother, activist, student, and host of the radio show The Groundbreakers—Sundus Abdul Hadi is all of that and more.
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Special Issue
Special Issue: Split Identity
My father is white. He has twinkly blue Kris Kringle eyes. The older I get, the more likely we are to be mistaken for a couple. This doesn’t happen to my younger sister, whose freckles, pale eyes and pinkish skin match our father’s.