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Marissa Ramnanan
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NewsFour women at the helm of Concordia’s future Black Student Union
Surprised to find no Black student union at Concordia, these four students are working to change that.
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Fringe Arts‘Vulnerability Lingers’ at Art Matters
The exhibit Vulnerability Lingers as part of the Art Matters festival was embodied and exuded sensuality.
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NewsCSU Launches Online Mental Health Service for Undergraduate Students
Empower Me is a new mental health service offered by the Concordia Student Union through the Studentcare insurance plan.
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Fringe ArtsAmbivalently Yours: Using the Colour Pink as a Tool Against the Patriarchy
Meet the Montreal artist Ambivalently Yours who fights the patriarchy with the way she uses pink in her art.
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Fringe ArtsNaïka Deluy-Garwood Shaves Her Head and Turns the Moment Into Art
Two small television sets sit parallel to each other, looping a video of visual artist Naïka Deluy-Garwood, shaving her head.
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Fringe ArtsILL-Abilities Celebrates Ten Years of Passion and Inspiration
ILL-Abilities, an international crew of differently-abled dancers, celebrated their tenth anniversary this weekend.
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Fringe Arts“Hyper Real”-Life Experiences of What It Means to be Black in Montreal
Hyper Real: Black History Exhibition and Event Series is a conglomerate of art pieces that relate a story of Black identity.
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NewsConcordia’s Mental Health Services: Little Diversity and Long Wait Times
Students dealing with mental illness confront long wait times when seeking support. Demands for mental health services have increased, as a growing number of students are reporting they are being impacted by mental illness. For non-white students at Concordia, having a counsellor who has not faced racial discrimination can complicate things, especially if a student needs to process trauma resulting from their own discrimination. But Concordia’s team of 12 psychologists, there are no people of colour to connect with students seeking a counsellor with similar experiences and understanding.
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Fringe ArtsFestival Review: Otakuthon, a Weekend Where Weebs and Otakus Can Go Wild
This year’s anime convention, Otakuthon, celebrated it’s 13th edition.
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Fringe ArtsJessie Reyez Says #metoo at the Montreal International Jazz Festival
Jessie Reyez was so expressive while singing, performing with her whole body. Her hands rubbed her face when she got into the emotion of her music, and her facial expressions were raw and transparent. In upbeat songs she jumped around and used the whole stage. Reyez was electric-her movements bold and unexpected, like a lightning strike.
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Fringe Arts
Controversial Jazz Festival Show SLĀV Cancelled
After an open letter was sent out and scores of activists rose up to protest, the widely contentious theatre performance SLĀV has been cancelled.The show premiered on June 26 at Theatre du Nouveau Monde, and was originally scheduled to run until July 14 as part of the Montreal International Jazz Festival.
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Fringe ArtsFestival Review: Bookworks Features Art that Honors the Concept of the Novel
This year, the Art Matters Festival shone a light on some visual art that paid homage to the literary art form. Here’s some insight on Bookworks!
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Fringe ArtsTheatre Review: Smackhead Brings the Issues of Addiction and Mortality to the Stage
We Are One theatre company put on their production of Smackhead which left our writer rattled. Read here to see why.
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Fringe ArtsSustainable Fashion Made Affordable
“Remember to let her into your heart, then you can start to make it better.”
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NewsAfter Cancelling a Commission Into Systemic Racism, Community Organizations Launch Their Own
A coalition of more than 40 anti-racist groups across Quebec decided to launch their own independent commission into systemic racism without help of the government.
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SportsFormer Rivals Become Best Friends on Stingers Women’s Hockey Team
Any time the Stingers women’s hockey team takes the ice, it’s pretty hard to ignore numbers 17 and 10.
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OpinionsThe Importance of Consent in Platonic Relationships
It’s become the norm to automatically hug someone when you’re leaving an event; a friend of a friend that you just met, or a family member, or a friend. Why is that?
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Special IssueFor 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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Fringe ArtsKafein Poetry Nite Hits the Triple Digits
Poetry Nite at Kafein has recently celebrated its 100th run! Hitting that triple-digit milestone is a pretty big deal, so here’s a little timeline piece to commemorate that feat!
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Fringe ArtsFilm Review: A Taste of Syrian Refugee Workers’ Reality
Taste of Cement, a documentary that tells the story of the grim reality for Syrian refugee construction workers, recently had its Montreal premiere courtesy of Cinema Politica in collaboration with McGill Syrian Students’ Association, the Concordia Syrian Student Association, and the Immigrant Workers Centre.
