Censor this: sticking up for our friends down the road
Election season hits King’s next week. Speeches will be filled with the usual bullshit of “more transparency, student activism and trend X to be applied to TWAK” (what’ll it be next? Holograms? Morse Code? Smoke signals?!). You can guarantee The Watch will follow it every step of the way.
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In her shoes
I had many new hopes and dreams going to a new school, but most were tainted by my dysphoria. I am Lucy, a transgender woman.
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Overactivism: why I’m done with protesting
Before I got on the bus from Halifax to Ottawa, before I started attending events for a conference called PowerShift, and before my views on environmentalism and activism completely changed, I had planned to write a story about a protest on the Hill. But I no longer wanted to.
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Ottawa climate conference gets gears churning about change
Four blackboards, already full of words by the time I had arrived, sat covered in terms like “capitalism” and “carbon credits,” under headings like “root causes” and “fake solutions.”
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Peer pressure, policy and tradition
I remember, back in my day, we would drink and have a good time but other people would drink, and it wasn’t for the right reasons, and they would not have a good time. They had been pressured into it.
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The “Obama idea”
Barack Obama isn’t just a politician or a president — he’s an idea. And that idea marks a major turning point for those of us in the western world. We all grew up with the idea that we can be anything we wanted to be. But as you continued to mature, there were still doubts at the very back of your mind. Aiming for the top is never easy.
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