To some people, philosophy is a boring subject they had to endure in school, or a pretentious topic that requires…
Album Review: Fetch The Bolt Cutters by Fiona Apple
For many people, the fear of making an album worth a magnificent eight-year wait would be something nigh on impossible.…
What is The Future for Women in Catholicism?
We all know that gender relations in religion is a complicated affair. Looking specifically at Catholicism, there appears to be…
Remembering the Creatures of my Dreams
If someone were to ask me about growing up in America, I might recall the following: There is a labyrinth…
Film Review: The Turning
Floria Sigismondi’s The Turning is a ghost story that is strangely unoccupied with its own ghosts, leaving behind a fragmented, meandering…
Film Review — Wrath of Silence – In association with the Chinese Visual Festival
It is extremely rare to find a title that captures the overall atmosphere and recurring themes of a film as accurately…
Pregnancy and Mental Health: My Experience with Hyperemesis Gravidarum
[CW: mention of vomiting/hospitals/miscarriage/abortion/mental health/weight loss] I got pregnant the first month my partner and I started trying for a…
Why it’s Hard to See Over the Fence: how Confirmation Bias Leads to Increased Polarization
In the age of fast media and technology, we are constantly bombarded with news stories, memes, and people sharing their…
Why you should revolt if you don’t like what you see (and how the right will try and stop you)
[trigger warning: death, violence, police brutality, genocide] Democracy was first established to ensure no man is subjected to a monarch’s…
Social Media and Mental Health – Who’s Responsible?
[trigger warning: mentions of self-harm] The advent of social media has been all-consuming throughout the world. What started off as…
