Jennah Lay

2 months ago | ubyssey.ca | Bernice Wong |Jennah Lay

On February 14, thousands gathered as a community to march through the Downtown Eastside (DTES) to commemorate Indigenous women. Since 1992, the Vancouver community has gathered to march in honour of the missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. This year marked the 34th march. Before the march officially began at 12 p.m., people gathered to hear personal testimonies from women directly affected by these tragedies.

Apr 23, 2024 | theotter.ca | Gillian McGregor |Jennah Lay |Hajir Butt

Across campuses and, well, everywhere, Muslims are pinched for space to do their five daily prayers—it’s time to get creative———————————————————–There is an inescapable thrill that comes with sprinting to the closest prayer room during the five-minute break in an hours-long journalism lab, hoping to return before the professor switches to the next slide. Sitting in class the other day, the build-up of this thrill was imminent. My phone buzzed during the lecture, announcing it was time to pray.

Apr 8, 2024 | theotter.ca | Madeline Liao |Jennah Lay |Lidia Rajcan

How stigma and medical bias often result in later autism diagnoses for marginalized genders———————————————————–Twenty-five-year-old Irene Chon sits stiffly in a small, private clinic in December of 2021. The room is small, with only a desk separating her and the clinician, who is about to assess her for autism spectrum disorder. She recalls a series of assessment questions and hand-eye coordination exercises done over five hours.

Feb 12, 2024 | theotter.ca | Jennah Lay |Lidia Rajcan |Sam Jabri-Pickett

———————————————————–On August 15, 2013, while playing for Team Alberta against Team British Columbia during the national championships in Vancouver, Justine Cowitz experienced her first rugby-related concussion. “I don’t think I ever returned to normal,” she says. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia defines a concussion as a type of traumatic brain injury (TBI) sustained from a hit to the head or body that causes the brain to move rapidly back and forth.

Jan 29, 2024 | theotter.ca | Lidia Rajcan |Jennah Lay |Sam Jabri-Pickett

———————————————————–The doors of Guelph General Hospital slid open as Taylor Taylor made her way into the emergency waiting room with her husband, Paul Taylor, just behind her. It was 2011 and the two were in their early twenties. They had concerned, frantic looks on their faces. Taylor was in pain. Her lower abdomen was throbbing, she was uncontrollably vomiting, and she had no idea why. Even the feeling of her baggy sweatpants and sweatshirt against her body hurt.