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Capitalism doesn’t support enduring friendships
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Friendship is a deeply social process. bell hooks writes in All About Love, “friendship is the place in which a great majority of us have our first glimpse of redemptive love and caring community.”
Many...
There is a difference between freedom and safety at the U...
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In the last few months, multiple articles and letters to the editor in the Manitoban have discussed the meaning and limitations of freedom of speech and expression in a university environment.
Although this can quickly...
Re: Words from Arij Al Khafagi’s appeal hearing
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The Manitoban published on its front page on Feb. 6 a very long statement made by Ben Baader, an associate professor of history at the U of M, which he delivered at the appeal...
Words mean things
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In the Manitoban office, scrawled with red EXPO marker upon a gigantic white board, looms a very important clause: “Words mean things.”
From this, I glean inspiration. As somebody on the verge of graduating with...
To hell with state suppression, embrace lesbian leather
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As a kid, I had a fraught relationship with Victoria’s Secret window displays, an experience shared by many current and former queer women. Obviously, the displays were meant to be looked at and the...
Love is great, but not if you exclude single people for...
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I pour love into all of my relationships. But as I’ve written before, I don’t think love is divorced from society’s ills. After years — plural — of being single, I’ve learned firsthand the...
Notting Hill can spread love straight from the heart
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Love has never been a complicated idea for me.
I grew up watching my parents fall in love every day. I watched them sing old Bollywood songs together on long drives — they did pretty...
