Ubyssey Features

Dr. Agnes d'Entremont teaches the art of the possible

Emiko Wijeysundera — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 22:17:31 +0000

Zoe Wagner / The Ubyssey

Dr. Agnes d’Entremont is a professor for APSC 366, an engineering course for non-engineers.

Dr. Ramón ‘Arturo’ Victoriano unveils lost Dominican voices

Stella Griffin — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 22:16:00 +0000

Zoe Wagner / The Ubyssey

Recovering lawyer Dr. Ramón “Arturo” Victoriano has been teaching at the university level for 30 years.

UBC bands are shaping Vancouver’s music scene

Fiona Sjaus — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 19:57:00 +0000

Isa S. You / The Ubyssey (left), Courtesy Tiger Really (centre), Lia Hansen (right)

Across Vancouver, musicians are honing their craft and finding their sound. Many of these musicians are from UBC.

Henry van Dyck's Ubisoft co-op Origins and Odyssey

Mahin E Alam — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 03:30:00 +0000

Isa S. You / The Ubyssey

Henry van Dyck developed his first video game in grade 10. He would later get an opportunity any aspiring gaming developer could only dream of — a job at Ubisoft.

Seeing past my reflection

Elena Zanuzzi — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 00:42:21 +0000

Isa S. You / The Ubyssey

When I was younger, I never understood why the spots on my face were called beauty marks when they didn’t make me feel more beautiful, but quite the opposite in fact.

Butch is beautiful: Medusa in the hair salon

Amelia Brooker — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 17:41:00 +0000

Isa S. You / The Ubyssey

Medusa struggles to let someone hold her femininity in their hands. She fears opening herself up, showing the most sacred part of herself to a room that sees her snakes as a poor excuse for what a woman is supposed to have.

Threading is cultural, political, familial

Iman Janmohamed — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 23:03:00 +0000

Isa S. You / The Ubyssey

Though my mom would hold my eyebrow skin taught, when I looked in the mirror, I’d smile at myself. Not because I thought I looked better — or fundamentally different, even — but because I felt better. I felt like an adult. I felt like a woman. And I felt brown.

please love me

Shubhreet Dadrao — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 00:59:57 +0000

Isa S. You / The Ubyssey

i used to wish i was a boy / because i thought / i would get / the benefit of the doubt / from a culture that loved / what i wasn’t.

Beauty is walking into the woods

Karen Zhou — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 00:58:21 +0000

Isa S. You / The Ubyssey

From a queer perspective, the idea of embodying something genderless is incredibly empowering. But I understand not everybody wants to cosplay as a plant.

The woes of 'growing up ugly'

Regina Hipolito — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 00:56:54 +0000

Isa S. You / The Ubyssey

Saying I “grew up ugly” doesn’t mean I was ugly — it meant that I never quite fit in the way other people did, and that's especially difficult when you have been forced to adapt to different standards of beauty your whole life.