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Before attempting to encompass the success and importance of the 2019 Women’s March in Nanaimo, it’s imperative that one understands where the march began. How far our community has come in just three short years is incredible, but there’s…

Identity is a prominent theme in modern art and scholarship. Who are we as individuals in this globalized, rapidly changing world? For Dr. Sonnet L’Abbé of the VIU Creative Writing Department, contemplating her black identity and settler…

Above: Hamdi Aweys gave an impassioned speech on the plight of women in her home country of Somalia. 📷 Paul Marck By News Editor Aislinn Cottell Sonnet L’Abbé, poet and professor at Vancouver Island University, had never organized a…

By contributor Aislinn Cottell   If you have the time to pry an eye from your textbooks this semester, you might spot a few different faces on the endless stairs we call home. In the wake of several departures from the Creative Writing…