How the internet elevated spoken word poetry but also made it worse
January 16, 2019
Poetry channels, pages and views are helping to redefine spoken word poetry
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Reconciliation through academia: Has Ryerson made headway?
November 22, 2018
Nearly one year after the release of a community consultation report, Indigenous faculty and students reflect on Ryerson’s progress with Indigenous reconciliation, and its shortcomings
We tried self-care for 7 days, and honestly it kinda sucked
November 15, 2018
The problem with self-care is that traditional acts of it are entirely inaccessible to many communities. Izabella Balcerzak writes about kickboxing and taking baths, but looks to other students and identities to hear about their own practices
The secret life of a Ryerson dance student
November 7, 2018
Dance culture has led to students at Ryerson's School of Performance feeling like they must look a certain way in order to succeed, impacting their mental and physical health. Madeline Cornacchia writes what students say Ryerson could do to make that problem go away
Fiction: “Children of Theirs”
October 30, 2018
Perhaps Quinn was a typical immigrant student. She always listened to what her parents thought was best, never giving it a second thought. Her parents’ expectations became her expectations
Mixed students on what it’s like to live on the outskirts of society
October 30, 2018
In a system that values blending in more than it does standing out, being forced out of that clubhouse and into the outskirts of every space in front of you is a reality for many youth growing up
The haunting of Ryerson’s old theatre school
October 30, 2018
They should have called the Ghostbusters
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The Earopener, Episode 17: Neither here nor there, but in-between
October 27, 2018
On this episode of The Ear-opener, Izabella chats with second-year journalism student and writer for this week’s feature, Tyler, about racially and ethnically diverse identities
Racially and ethnically mixed students face a different kind of racism
October 23, 2018
People on the outskirts of traditional racial and ethnic categories can create an uncertain feeling of being "in between"—a simultaneous embrace and rejection
Video: The cost of international exchange
October 5, 2018
The Eyeopener looks into the struggles of affording exchange and how some Ryerson students managed to do it, but also why for some the costs are too steep
Reclaiming the act of writing
September 25, 2018
Some Ryerson students are reclaiming the act of writing to bring back what it once was—more than just an academic obligation
This rich to ride: The cost of studying abroad
September 19, 2018
Studying abroad is the opportunity of a lifetime, but students repping Ryerson overseas consist of a wealth of the upper class
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