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S.H.A.R.E. the Health

Keanna Brown

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February 13, 2026

While the film only lasted thirteen minutes, S.H.A.R.E. led me to re-evaluate my own feminist ways.

Who Told You to Think Like That?

Madison Mäe Adsetts

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January 5, 2026

How institutions script our voices, silence our instincts, and shape the questions we’re allowed to ask.

TCSA's Disregard for BDS Measures Against Israel Ignites Student Backlash

Chukwugoziem Nwadugbo

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November 22, 2023

A few weeks back, the TCSA was handing out free breakfast sandwiches and bagels from McDonalds, an action students were repulsed by given many people are actively boycotting is McDonalds due to its support of the Israeli occupation of Gaza.

Women's History Month and the Overlooked Intersections of Race and Femininity in Canada

Chukwugoziem Nwadugbo

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November 8, 2023

October Is considered women history month and this year’s theme favors an intersectional outlook. However, without a lot of the populace aware of this celebration, its effectiveness at spreading awareness is called into question. Evidently, the government did not do enough to celebrate women, address their unique challenges, and highlight their achievements.

To All Those Who Are Neutral In Today’s Holocaust

Afaf Ghazi

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October 30, 2023

If you have ever wondered how the world allowed the Holocaust to happen, pay close attention to the silence today. The State of Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza, having killed about 5,791 Palestinians, displacing a further 1.4 million Palestinians, and bombing hospitals, bakeries and places of worship.

Screen & Souls

Madison Mäe Adsetts

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November 11, 2025

A plea for wonder in a world that has mistaken data for divinity.

The Death of the Filler Episode

Indigo Moran

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October 16, 2025

The disappearance of dead-end plots is symptomatic of a new age of TV writing.

Gentrifying the Heart (or On Polyamory, Power, and Who Gets to Be Really Radical in Peterborough)

Marisol Campos-Navarrete

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August 19, 2025

What does a political economy of polyamory look like?

Promises and Precarity: How Canadian Policy and Trent's Budget Strategy Exploit International Students

Emma Rivero-Uribe

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August 19, 2025

An examination of how Canadian immigration policy and Trent University’s budget strategy place international students in financially and legally precarious positions

U.S. Isolation and the Coalition of the Willing

J.A. Forrester

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March 1, 2025

"America First" is the present refrain of the dogmatic American right wing, but from where exactly did this mantra arise? James Forrester details a history of U.S. exceptionalism which has seen the country further its own agenda while making the rest of the world pay.

Innocence Abroad ...The Americans are coming, the Americans are coming!

J.A. Forrester

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February 13, 2025

A simple question: Is the United States a global empire in the colonial tradition?

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No Black Educators

Shaela McLeod

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February 10, 2022

In this article, Shaela McLeod explores how the diversity gap amongst post-secondary educators does damage to Black students, recounting her own experience at Trent being taught by predominantly white faculty.

The Curious Case of Dr. Dummitt

Cameron Noble

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February 8, 2022

Cameron Noble breaks down arguments made by Trent Canadian Studies professor, Dr. Christopher Dummitt, who argues that Canadian colonialism was not a genocide of Indigenous peoples.

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