Blood and bruises: inclusive classrooms gone wrong April 23, 2019April 23, 2019 Natasha Simpson B.C. teachers and students are increasingly at risk of attack in a system that cannot support traumatized and violent children in regular classrooms, and the University of Victoria falls woefully
Holomodor bus teaches students about the Ukrainian genocide April 22, 2019April 23, 2019 Natasha Simpson The bus is impossible to miss. It’s massive, painted with orange wheat fields, blue sky, and “HOLODOMOR — THE UKRAINIAN GENOCIDE” in white capital letters. A sight that causes drivers
It’s time to legalize prostitution in Canada February 19, 2019March 17, 2019 Natasha Simpson Thanks in part to Rudyard Kipling, who spoke of it in one of his Indian Tales, we all know that prostitution is the world's oldest profession. However, despite sex work's lengthy...
What is feminist porn? February 10, 2019 Natasha Simpson Despite being a feminist, I have no idea how to define feminist porn. Is it romance-novel sex? Is it women in leather with strap-ons? Can porn even be feminist? Porn...
Women’s March Victoria back for round three January 24, 2019January 28, 2019 Natasha Simpson Hundreds showed up to support intersectional feminism with a focus on Indigenous women's rights Sunshine broke through the rain clouds on Saturday, Jan. 19, as a crowd gathered on the Legislative...
The slow death of the duct tape military January 3, 2019December 18, 2018 Natasha Simpson The Canadian Armed Forces have become second hand and second rate. Here’s why you should care. In 1918, Canadian units were some of the British Expeditionary Force’s most effective fighters, with...
We need more than just a hashtag November 29, 2018November 29, 2018 Natasha Simpson On Oct. 15, 2017, a tweet changed the world. “If all the women who have been sexually harassed or assaulted wrote “Me too” as a status, we might give people a...
Legal drugs can solve a litany of problems November 16, 2018 Natasha Simpson (Like fighting the Taliban, curbing money laundering, reducing addiction rates, and ending the opioid crisis) On Oct. 17 Canada became the first G7 country, and the second country worldwide, to fully...
The army reserves want YOU! November 12, 2018November 12, 2018 Natasha Simpson (And you might want them, too) Master Corporals Owen Seginson and Brendan Morton of 39 Service Battalion arrived outside the Student Union Building on Sept. 28 with a Medium Support...
100 years of Remembrance November 10, 2018 Natasha Simpson Honouring Remembrance Day in Victoria a century after the 1918 armistice One hundred years ago, in a train car in the Forest of Compiègne, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh...
