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To hell with state suppression, embrace lesbian leather

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Simon Pensato
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...
Dallin Chicoine
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Love is great, but not if you exclude single people for...

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Jessie Krahn
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...
Michele Melendez
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Notting Hill can spread love straight from the heart

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Lakshmisree Shaji
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...
Teegan Gillich
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A life spent together is better

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Braden Bristow
Life is difficult, it is for most people, but I have always struggled to stay positive and I am seldom content. Yet, when I sit next to Tyler, my long-term boyfriend, I find peace...
Teegan Gillich
Editorial

Contraceptive realities are pregnant with inequalities

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Elah Ajene
It was a random Tuesday in primary six when the head teacher, Mrs. Joy, had split the entire school in half. Girls headed to the auditorium while boys were escorted to begin P.E. earlier...
Teegan Gillich
Arts & Culture

The ‘Toban staff’s romantic Valentine’s Day movie picks

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Manitoban staff
Before Sunrise (1995) Before Sunrise, the first in Richard Linklater’s Before Trilogy, follows Jesse and Céline, two 20-somethings, as they start to chat on a train in Europe.  The film is in large part just documenting...
Dallin Chicoine
Arts & Culture

Basement Mixtapes for Bisons: Valentines Day Edition

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Jacob Davis
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 primarily I’ve always yearned for human connection.  For most of...