At the end of this past summer, I went on a 10-day road trip around Nova Scotia with my boyfriend and our cat. We visited Sydney in Cape Breton, Antigonish, and Lunenburg. How did we end up going on a […]
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On October 18th, Acadia students will #StandWithHer and #StandWithSurvivors. A recent mishandling of a sexual assault case at St. Francis Xavier University has prompted students across multiple Canadian universities to organize this week in solidarity with victim-survivors of sexualized violence. […]
Arriving as an exchange student at Acadia was a bit like landing in a place with an entirely new language. Gone was the knowledge I thought I had gained from the campus maps; directions were given in code, places and […]
Oh! “Anime is the beautiful pastime that helps us get through it” is what I would say, but for some reason the industry has been churning out lower and lower quality products. For the most part, anime has managed to […]
We moved to Wolfville last November, so this is the first time my wife and I have attended Deep Roots Music Festival. We both love music and had seen some of the entertainers before, so as soon as we heard […]
This fall, Valley Voices is pleased to announce they will be holding a program for women who love to sing called “Find Your Voice”. Each week during Find Your Voice participants will experience the learning of a song and will […]
In the end, isn’t it just about distracting yourself from all the things you don’t know how to do? Here are some strong distraction contenders: Peaky Blinders. PEAKY. BLINDERS. My love for semi-historical movies and TV shows comes directly from […]
More often than not, summer is a time for students to recharge before a strenuous academic year. Summer’s also a time to catch up on the world and engage in some mindless fun. Of all the things I’ve watched, I […]
When I read for pleasure during the academic year, I find myself craving novels – I like the escape of fiction when I’m up to my neck in assignments. However, once I’ve been away from lecture halls and paper-writing for […]
Although the term Two Spirit is relatively new to the LGBTQ+ acronym, having been introduced in 1990, the concept is not new to Indigenous cultures. Indeed, the term Two Spirit is simply an umbrella term that encompasses a multitude of […]
Fifty Shades of Grey is a frustrating film franchise for me, personally, because in my mind it’s emblematic of a much larger issue. For a moment, put aside the controversies that come along with Fifty Shades of Grey, issues that […]
Pariah (2011) Art and drama meet in this film written and directed by Dee Rees, open lesbian and certified bad-ass. Claiming the film to be semi-autobiographical, Pariah follows Alike through her slow but tremendous process of coming to terms with […]
On January 31, 2018, Halifax removed the statue of its controversial founder and Nova Scotia Governor Edward Cornwallis. The Halifax Regional Council had voted the day before to immediately remove the statue and place it in storage until the Council […]
Mona Awad’s 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, the 2017/2018 Acadia Reads pick, gives readers a glimpse into the struggles, mind, body, and soul of protagonist Elizabeth. The ways that Elizabeth views food and her body is abysmal. […]
It is not a secret that Canada’s justice system, like the American system, favors the white man. Incarceration rates upon the Indigenous population in Canada resembles those of the African American diaspora in the USA. The recent case on the […]