Special Issue

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  Special Issue

  Orientation Issue

  The Link – Published September 5, 2012

  In our annual Orientation Issue you’ll find where to eat, drink, party and generally survive your stay at Concordia University.

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  Objects of Our Affection

  Julia Jones & Emma Craig – Published March 13, 2012

  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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  Something You’re Not

  Oliver Leon – Published March 13, 2012

  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

  Alex Manley – Published March 13, 2012

  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

  Elysha del Giusto-Enos – Published March 13, 2012

  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

  jeannette young – Published March 13, 2012

  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

  Ali Pinkney – Published March 13, 2012

  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
  together.

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  The Link’s Annual Women’s Issue

  Julia Jones & Alex Manley – Published March 13, 2012

  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 exactly equal.

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  A Trans Man’s Rant

  Oliver Leon & Julia Jones – Published February 14, 2012

  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

  Katie McGroarty – Published February 14, 2012

  Let’s face it: the frat boy/sorority girl stereotype was born in the movies.