Savannah Stewart
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Opinions
Don’t @ Me: I Want Artisanal Pot Brownies, Goddamnit!
One aspect of legalization got me a little excited, and that was the idea of all these cool new weed-related products and paraphernalia we would see in the months-to-years after.
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Opinions
Sex Ed(itorial): Squirting, Explained
Sadly, many people actually know very little about the sexual pleasure of biologically female bodies.
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Special Issue
Continuing The Fight Against Concordia’s Rape Culture
This year Concordia’s administration faced one of its biggest public relations scandals in recent years.
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Special Issue
Montreal’s Gentrification, Neighbourhood by Neighbourhood
Many of Montreal’s neighbourhoods are gentrifying. Some areas are far along in the process, and others are just beginning to accelerate.
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Fringe Arts
Theatre Review: “Don’t Read the Comments” Shows the Messy Side of #MeToo
Set on the stage of a talk show in which host Wendy Winfrey invites three guests to discuss the confusing subject of sexual assault, with very messy results. The characters, portrayed in the clown style of bouffon, show us absurd but often very real points of view about consent, responsibility, societal expectations, and the grey areas that come up after experiencing uncomfortable sexual encounters⎯the kind you can’t seem to put a name on.
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Fringe Arts
Montreal’s Queer Arts Festival Celebrated a Successful Second Edition
You would think that in Montreal, this bastion of diversity and summer festivities, a multidisciplinary queer arts festival would be a well established tradition by 2018.
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Fringe Arts
New Ventures and Old Traditions In This Year’s Montreal Fringe Festival
The St-Ambroise Montreal Fringe Festival is kicking off its 28th edition as the tickets for over 100 shows in this year’s programming went on sale Tuesday evening.
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Special Issue
Mainstream Media Is Giving the Far-Right Exactly What They Want
Journalists frequently rely on the sanitized message of the spokespeople of far-right groups, but ignore the racist discourse of their membership.
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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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Fringe Arts
Erotic Art Market Shows Why There Should Be No Taboo Around Sexual Art
In the small, inviting space of the Eastern Bloc gallery’s romantically lit industrial rooms and corridors, over 100 people rolled through on Valentine’s Day to take in some erotic art.
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News
Big Plans Ahead for Concordia’s Reuse Centre
In the zero-level garage of Concordia’s Hall building, nestled between auto mechanic workspaces and piles of pallets, a new initiative is working to tackling the university’s waste.
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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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Fringe Arts
Zero Waste Artist Residency Will be Featured at the VAV Gallery
VAV Gallery and Concordia University’s Centre for Creative Reuse have teamed up to provide students from the Fine Arts program a place where they can make art with reusable materials.
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Opinions
Concordia’s Fight Against Fascism
Clearly, 2017 is the year that the fight against fascism took on an urgent tone.
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Fringe Arts
I WANNA ROCK! (And Not be Limited by My Gender)
In case it isn’t apparent from the name, Rock Camp For Girls and Gender Nonconforming Youth is a rock camp like no other.
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News
Concordia’s Simone de Beauvoir Institute Launches Feminist University Initiative
After a year of consultations on the topic of diversity and inclusivity on campus, Concordia University’s Simone de Beauvoir Institute held a launch and community call-in event for their Critical Feminist Activism and Research initiative Friday evening.
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Opinions
Feminism and Sexual Submission Aren’t Mutually Exclusive
People who think that feminist women cannot also be sexually submissive probably just think that way because they don’t understand either concept.
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Fringe Arts
Theatre Preview: Rossetti’s Goblin Market, From the Page to the Stage
New Zealand circus theatre troupe is coming to Montreal for three days to perform their theatrical rendition of Christina Rossetti’s work, “Goblin Market.”
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Opinions
The Story of the Pointe-Saint-Charles Community Clinic
Someone who is unaware of the clinic’s history and mandate would easily mistake it for one of the many provincially-operated, free-of-charge clinics in Quebec—but the CCPSC has a unique story all of its own.