Special Issue

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  Kinky Cover Art

  Colin Harris – Published February 14, 2012

  For Elise Dawson, flipping through a skin-mag with her mom over her shoulder was the start of a very comfortable sexual lifestyle, which has now transitioned to producing porn.

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  Perverse Pleasures

  Laura Beeston – Published February 14, 2012

  Fetish, kink, freak—whatever you call it, and whatever you feel about it—is actually everywhere. Permeating our physical bodies, punctuating our pleasures and playing a real part in the power dynamics all around us, kinkiness remains

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  Fear of Flying

  Oliver Leon – Published February 14, 2012

  A regulatory change quietly made to the Aeronautics Act by Transport Canada last July could disallow transsexual and transgender people from boarding flights leaving Canada.

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  How Policy Denies Identity

  Ben Boudreau – Published February 14, 2012

  Empowerment comes from the strangest places sometimes. Nothing makes me feel more empowered than watching society’s intellectual elite get weak at the knees when they realize that I’m a transexual. All of a sudden, my features shift from handsome ruggedness and good-boy looks into the alien look of a strange transexual child.

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  What’s to Come

  Julian Ward & Laura Beeston – Published February 14, 2012

  You might have been shocked by our cover.

  You might have also asked yourself, is this how The Link actually sees queer identity?

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  Preventing Prevention

  Corey Pool – Published February 8, 2012

  A small group of activists gathered outside the Montreal Superior Court Feb. 7 to protest the criminalization of non-disclosure of an HIV-positive status.

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  The Scary Big Picture

  Colin Harris – Published January 31, 2012

  More and more, we hear doomsday scenarios of a not-so-distant future of resource wars and destruction of nature, looming over human advancement like a giant anvil from a childhood cartoon. It’s easy to lose hope of any solution with a problem this big.

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  How Sustainable Is Concordia?

  Hilary Sinclair & Colin Harris – Published January 31, 2012

  An institution that spends upwards of  $450 million annually can have a huge impact on the future of sustainability, depending on how it chooses to spend its money.

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  Slow Down & Smell the Cooking

  Josh Davidson – Published January 31, 2012

  What is sustainable food? Ask that question of a few local chefs, activists or scholars, and you’ll swiftly be dissuaded from trying to define it. The term, it seems, is a less achievable ideal than sad symptom—its very existence a nod to the disastrous state of the global food system.

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  Going Green in the Arena

  David Murphy – Published January 31, 2012

  The International Academy of Sports Science and Technology is making sure that more than just the Astro-turf is green in sports stadiums.