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Dec 10, 2024 | 
excal.on.ca | Jessie Krahn |YorkU Arts |York Alumna
The world’s greatest bards may be the feminist wallflowers frequenting your weekend ragers. At least, that character description is not far afield of the poetic persona of Scientific Marvel, the debut poetry collection of York alumna Chimwemwe Undi.
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Jul 14, 2024 | 
news.umanitoba.ca | Jessie Krahn
July 15, 2024 — Bathed in the blue light of your phone in the late hours of the evening, you scroll almost subconsciously through your YouTube feed until, suddenly, you see a three-hour explainer from one of your favourite creators on some obscure angle about a childhood cartoon you treasure. Does the person who created that video make any difference to your viewing experience? Does your response make any difference to the creator, for that matter?
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Apr 9, 2024 | 
themanitoban.com | Jessie Krahn |Teegan Gillich
What, exactly, is the point of a student newspaper? I joined the Manitoban as an arts & culture reporter in the fall of 2022 to build my portfolio and make friends in the final hours of my mostly-remote graduate degree. Since then, I began editing the paper’s comment section and, over time, I took on various degrees of editing in every section of the paper — all the way from news to diversions.
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Mar 19, 2024 | 
themanitoban.com | Jessie Krahn |Teegan Gillich
25-year-old U.S. military member Aaron Bushnell died of burn injuries after self-immolating and shouting “free Palestine” in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C. on Feb. 25. Live-streaming the act on Twitch, Bushnell said prior to the burning that he was “about to engage in an extreme act of protest” over Israel’s genocide of Palestinians.
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Mar 12, 2024 | 
themanitoban.com | Jessie Krahn |Teegan Gillich
Having lived through UMFA’S 2016 and 2021 strikes as an undergraduate and as a graduate student, I like to keep my ear to the ground about labour disputes in other post-secondary institutions across Canada. Early March is bargaining season for unions at post-secondary institutions across Canada, so the first week of the month played out like a sordid gumball machine bleakly dispensing news of obstinate employers.
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Mar 5, 2024 | 
themanitoban.com | Jessie Krahn |Teegan Gillich
UMSU and the University of Manitoba’s wilful and continuous ignoring of both the genocide of Palestinians, and the way the genocide has come to affect the U of M community locally, has come home to roost. The U of M community is rightfully in an uproar after self-professed human rights expert Bassem Eid’s full-frontal Islamophobic and anti-Palestinian display at an event hosted by Students Supporting Israel U of M (SSI).
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Jan 16, 2024 | 
themanitoban.com | Jessie Krahn |Dallin Chicoine
Right at the year’s close, news that 19-year-old U of M international student Afolabi Stephen Opaso was killed by police on Dec. 31, 2023 shook the community. Apparently, though, it didn’t hit the U of M’s administration hard enough to justify a dedicated acknowledgement that one among us had suffered a terrible end. In the wake of it all — the grief, fear, confusion and justified outrage, the U of M did not send out an email the moment the public was made aware a U of M student was killed.
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Dec 5, 2023 | 
themanitoban.com | Jessie Krahn |Teegan Gillich
Holidays bring out the grinch in me, but not because I’m a cynic. I’m a sentimental crybaby and I get drunk off social energy, despite being an anxious mess. Some members of my family think I’m a little psycho feminist commie freak, though, and that dampens my holiday spirit. There’s a sort of schadenfreude to holiday traditions. Someone must be taking some perverse pleasure in watching people squirm in the knotted web of family ties we avoid until specific points in the year.
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Dec 5, 2023 | 
themanitoban.com | Jessie Krahn |Teegan Gillich
UMSU has not been entirely silent on what professor of Holocaust and genocide studies Raz Segal has called “a textbook case of genocide” of Palestinians, but they also haven’t done anything more proactive than sharing suicide hotline numbers on Instagram “in light of recent international events.” Generations of UMSU leaders have gutted the union as an entity for organizing around students’ rights, leaving it a glossy exoskeletal springboard for greenhorn careerists with gleaming smiles to...
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Nov 28, 2023 | 
themanitoban.com | Jessie Krahn |Dallin Chicoine
I was chatting with some guests at a wedding when a few kids trotted past the table where we were swilling wine. Someone scoffed and bemoaned weddings that don’t ban kids from the guestlist. I recognize kids are difficult. Some of my best friends are children, but even I can’t always handle the disarray they leave in their wake. But if we get a peek under the hood of off-hand comments about how kids are awful, what initially seems like playful mockery is the engine of something more sinister.
