Basement Mixtape for Bisons — goodbye, hello
Somehow, despite the unrelenting snowfalls in the last few weeks, we’ve made it to what appears to be springtime. As we enter exam season and…
Jacob Davis
Bombay Bicycle Club, ‘Fantasies’ — 4/5 stars
Bombay Bicycle Club and I have a complicated relationship. I never talk about them being a favourite of mine when in heated discussions about music….
’Toban Listens: Poetry Unbound
Poetry Unbound wasn’t the first podcast I listened to, but it certainly was the podcast that inspired a new kind of love in me for…
’Toban Listens: The Orbiting Human Circus (of the Air)
Loneliness is a complex emotion. It can strike any one of us at any time, even amid our loved ones and even during what might…
Basement Mixtapes for Bisons: Valentines Day Edition
I’ve always been a yearner. I’ve yearned for a well-paying job, a stable income, an extra in a baker’s dozen box of goodies — but…
Finding forgotten lifeworlds through Yiddish Cinema
Obsession with communication and connection to diasporic cinema are concepts U of M scholars Jonah Corne and Monika Vrečar explore in their newly published monograph,…
Basement Mixtapes for Bisons: Surviving winter term
After two weeks of winter term, I’ve noticed my classmates, friends and colleagues all expressing a similar malaise regarding this semester. It seems that, much…
There is solidarity in poverty at university
The experiences I’ve carried with me from a life in and out of various states of poverty were ones I frequently felt alienated by. I…
Find out what your body knows
Students and professors alike are invited to attend the book launch of What Our Bodies Know: Essays at the Intersection of Feminism & Disability on…
’Toban Listens: Video Palace
For those who grew up with VHS tapes, there’s likely a nostalgia that sits in your brain and triggers when you hear the sound of…