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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.

Healing Masculinity: HBO’s The Last of Us and Male Trauma

Julián Rubio

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March 22, 2023

If you’ve been on social media lately, or have just been following gaming and Pedro Pascal since 2013, then you’ve definitely heard of HBO’s The Last of Us by Neil Druckmann and Craig Mazin — or, what is arguably the best video game adaptation up to date. The Last of Us, starring Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsay, follows the journey of Joel and Ellie — a stone-hearted smuggler and the girl he’s smuggling — as they travel across Apocalypse America facing mushroom monsters, raiders, and trauma along the way.

The Effects of Quiet Racism — A Personal Essay

Madison Marvin

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March 22, 2023

It’s like saying a lion doesn't mean to scare away a gazelle by approaching it. Even if the lion has no intention of hurting the gazelle, how is the gazelle supposed to know that? How is the gazelle supposed to recognize which lion will eat it and which lion just wants to get a drink from the oasis? Maybe it’s the fact that a body of water with a lion near it can never be an oasis for a gazelle.

The Role of Audience

Chanel Bowen

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March 22, 2023

I’ve been challenging myself to audience more. No, that’s not a typo. Lately I’ve been thinking about audience as a verb, the simultaneous role of watching, the active sense of the passive tense being entertained.

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?

4 Years Left: The World Climate Clock and the Recognition of Indigenous Land Sovereignty

Ciara Richardson

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February 10, 2025

Ciara Richardson examines the World Climate Clock initiative and its efforts to raise awareness about anthropogenic climate change before it's too late, specifically the project's investment in Indigenous Land Sovereignty as a means to combating the climate crisis.

You Are Not "Just A Girl." Stop Saying That

Louanne Morin

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January 23, 2025

Are you coquette? Do you know girl math? Do you subscribe to the philosophy of care ethics? From social media to academia, Louanne Morin details the ongoing antifeminist retrenchment.

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