Navigating Transness and Surgical Tourism in Canada
I am trans. This means several things at once. It means, in my case, that I am AFAB – that is, assigned female at birth. Birth sex assignment is a …
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Telecare Peterborough is Here and We Care!
Telecare recognizes that students are dealing with a significant amount of stress from a huge amount of factors: school, work, relationships, loneliness, isolation, and/or mental illness. Exam time can be …
TDOR: Remembrance, Resilience, Resistance, Revolution
Every November 20, we mourn. The Trans Day of Remembrance, or TDOR for short, was founded in 1999 to draw attention to the murder of a trans woman. Every year …
I Don’t Have Anxiety, I Just Worry All the Time
I was in my fourth weekly session of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for mild to moderate anxiety and depression. CBT works on changing your distorted thinking patterns in order to …
Letter to the Editors, Volume 53 Issue 4: Acute Flaccid Myelitis
Dear Editors, Dirty air conditioning systems in automobiles and/or homes may be responsible for a seemingly new, paralyzing epidemic affecting children across the United States, and has also been reported …
Talk Dirty to Me: Workshops at You’re Welcome
The war on sexuality belongs to our generation. We constantly debate issues surrounding consent, sexual identity, and one’s bodily autonomy. There may be many reasons for this widespread misunderstanding of …
Don’t Ask Me About Thanksgiving
No, Uncle Roger, I don’t have a boyfriend. I’m bisexual. You would have a stroke if I brought a girlfriend over for Thanksgiving. Then you would make a snide, inappropriately …
The 5 Best Places for Trent Students to Have a Good Cry
5. The Unused Top or Bottom of a Stairwell Pros: Privacy, aesthetics Cons: Drafty, echoey, not accessible Maybe your prof told you there’s no extension for your assignment. Maybe your …
She’s Giving Me Good Vibrations (and Hopefully Not Chlamydia)
On the night of September 21 of 1788, the Austrian army, comprised of various minorities, attacked itself while awaiting the Turkish forces. After having drank away most of the night, …
Horoscope Haikus: Volume 53 Issue 2
LIBRA Can’t fight this feeling Move with Mercury’s swift wings Tell them how you feel SCORPIO A breakthrough is near Brick by brick a wall is built Smash through the …