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Surveillance and Security: McGill’s Response to Student Dissent

Written by: Lauren Avis Edited by: Laurence Desjardins and Louise Deroi On the morning of October 8th,  McGill’s main campus was cast with grey clouds and a tangible loss of energy from the previous day where students were met with armed SVPM guards in riot gear. While the police have seemingly left campus, leaving piles of horse dung in their wake, the perennial watch of … Continue reading Surveillance and Security: McGill’s Response to Student Dissent

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Iconoclastic Approach: White Female Artists and Their Representation of Women of Colour

In this piece, Aelia analyzes three paintings: Amaral’s The Negress, Malfatti’s Tropical and Heward’s Hester. Using a feminist and iconoclastic lens, Aelia reveals the role of white women artists in perpetuating the racist and sexist rules that reduced and marginalized women of colour in the institution of French art critics. I enjoyed editing this piece because the intra-gendered relationship between white women artists and their women subjects is often neglected, along with the harm that white women artists have caused to their women of colour subjects.

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“This Is How We Conceptualize Human Beings”: Accountability, Growth, and Allyship in Kendrick Lamar’s “Auntie Diaries”

Written by: Avi Caplan, Edited by: Audrey Gottschild. This piece explores the homophobic and transphobic environment of Kendrick Lamar’s childhood as presented in his track “Auntie Diaries” on the double LP of Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers. Through contextualization, summarization of the song’s narrative, and analysis of critical lyrical moments, Caplan does a fantastic job of explaining Lamar’s vulnerability and growth. I enjoyed this piece, as it brought light to an unexposed area of homophobia and transphobia and discussed the progress that this popular rapper has made within this environment. Continue reading “This Is How We Conceptualize Human Beings”: Accountability, Growth, and Allyship in Kendrick Lamar’s “Auntie Diaries”

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Complicity in Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex 

Online submission by Audrey Gottschild, edited by Miranda Kexin Hu

In Simone de Beauvoir’s famous work, The Second Sex, she describes how women are complicit to the oppressed condition they find themselves to be in; being positioned as the “Other” and developing their identities in relation to men. I enjoyed editing this piece because it provides a close examination of women’s complicity, which is a key concept in reading and understanding The Second Sex. Continue reading Complicity in Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex 

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