My family moved to Winnipeg when I was seven — another family in a long migration of those leaving their homes to start again in what seemed like an isolated tundra. We subscribed to all the Filipino things available to us in Canada: church, any bakery with good pandesal and other Filipinos.
Submitting an unsolicited manuscript to a publisher or agent can feel like rolling a story into a glass bottle and tossing it into Niagara Falls hoping someone at the bottom will catch it. Niagara Fall Syndrome.
Throughout Purghart’s acting career, they’ve seen the gender binary represented on the stage. The now-UBC alum is demolishing the binary while creating spaces for Queer artists through their comedy show That’s Gay!.
From student to professor and Arts One chair — Crawford has seen Arts One grow. And he’s grown alongside it.
A 2023 external review interviewed UBCO management faculty, staff and students over a three-day period, during which many showed “clear discontent” with the FoM.
She was known for pioneering roles for women in Canadian journalism and politics as the first female Conservative member of Parliament elected in BC and the first female Conservative appointed from the province to the senate.
And when I finally succeeded in escaping my hometown, I became crudely aware of my origin. “I am from Pune,’’ is a line I will be repeating until one day I give up, seeing people’s confusion and just say Mumbai. It’s easier — geographic simplifications never hurt anyone.
After graduating with a BFA from the University of Victoria in 1978, Dr. Jeannette Armstrong threw herself straight into work, turning Syilx history into vibrant stories.
If I am truly honest with myself, Ottawa isn’t that cold — it grows warmer in my memory the longer I am away.
While putting together this issue, we decided to take a look back at how Pride has been represented in The Ubyssey in years past. One piece we found was a paper published on February 5, 1998, coordinated by Pride UBC — that year’s Pride issue.
Painting a portrait of Istanbul is impossible — laughable, even.
Before she was a drag queen, Anita Wigl’it had a job that was, at times, “boring.” But then, she ushered the Australian classic Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, and a seemingly normal shift and show would forever changed her life. The then-twenty-year-old saw something in that theatre that she had never seen before — drag queens on stage.
I always believed I was someone whose life was in constant motion — at least that’s what I believed when I first left Vancouver in May of last year. And yet, seeing the familiar Vancouver grid come into view from above, I discovered a discomforting warmth arising with my arrival “home.”
As students walked across the stage during a May 2012 commencement ceremony, the crowd burst into an applause that was decades in the making. This applause was unique — it wasn’t just to celebrate graduation, but to recognize 76 Japanese Canadian UBC students who were forced into internment camps in 1942 before they could complete their degrees.
The night before the start of the Great Canadian Baking Show (GCBS), Lauren Tjoe sat terrified in her hotel room. Not only is she allergic to gluten and dairy, but she was the youngest baker in her season by nine years.