It’s been just over one year since UBC Drag announced it was going on an indefinite hiatus. The collective of drag performers ...

I wore my hair in a slicked-back bun today, a style my mirror hadn’t seen on me in years. A part of the process will always be muscle memory — a counter-clockwise twist and four pins marking the shape ...

I was 10 years old when I got called “teacher’s pet” for the first time. Perplexed, I pushed my big square glasses up my small nose and asked, “What does that mean?” ...

On a small island inside the internet — governed by @joan.of.arca, Binchtopia and Ottessa Moshfegh — lives a world of literate young women.

This is precisely why I will always be a staunch defender and lover of the pop girlies, like Selena Gomez and Sabrina Carpenter. Female pop icons have some of the most power in popular culture — they ...

Despite the media-imposed stereotype that ‘girl’ friendships are characterized by petty fights and falsity, close personal relationships are a staple of girlhood. From BFFs and playdates to a support ...

I’m a nomad and nobody to anybody. I’m everything if everything goes back to a maternal hunger all knitted into dirty laundry and hesitant “I miss you”​s and legs crossed over one another on the couch ...

On October 22, The Bike Kitchen hosted their “Cycling as Resistance” fundraising event for Palestinian aid at the Red Gate ...

Femininity ideals are closely connected to parts of women’s bodies linked to reproduction, such as breasts or uteruses. Snowden mentioned the expectation for pregnant people to lose their baby weight ...

I was nine when the world started to appear a lot blurrier than usual. I couldn’t see the whiteboard from the back of the class or properly focus on the faces of my friends as they spoke in front of ...

The Ubyssey acknowledges we operate on the traditional, ancestral and stolen territories of the Coast Salish peoples including the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish) and ...

The Ubyssey has been the definitive source of news on campus since 1918. Published by an independent non-profit society, written and edited by students and funded by a combination of student fees and ...