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What Love Could Be: Non-Monogamy, Love and Relationships with UBC Prof. Carrie Jenkins

What is romantic love? Biology? Magical feelings? A social construct? Something else? Why do we assume a committed relationship is the same thing as an exclusive relationship? How do gender and monogamy relate to one another? What is polyamory and how radical is it really? Professor and Canada Research Chair in Philosophy at UBC Carrie […]

UBC FilmSoc and ARTIVISM Present: Looking for Langston & Totally F***ed Up

Join us for a screening of New Queer Cinema, BIPOC classics “Looking for Langston” by Dir. Isaac Julien and “Totally F***ed Up!” by Director Gregg Araki in collaboration with UBC FilmSoc. This event is part of ARTIVISIM: Queering the Self on to October 22. Price: FREE for FilmSoc Members. Tickets $5.83 at the door which […]

QUEER Coded: Slam + Spoken Word

Join us at MOA’s exquisite Haida House for an intimate and inspirational evening of Queer and Feminist Slam + Spoken Word with UBC Slam Poetry to dive deep on topics of gender, identity, intersectionality, social injustice and more. Host Anjalica Solomon headlines, bringing their robust visions of hope, tenacity, and love. Bring friends and find […]

(Un)Masking Veiling: From Muslim Women’s Covering Practices to Conversations About Masking Mandates

Join us for a conversation with Professor Alifa Bandali as we unravel important issues and questions that uncover veiling in terms of othering, and what this means in light of the global pandemic and masking mandates. Who is able to wear a mask and go unnoticed, and who continues to be rendered dangerous, oppressed, and […]