NATIVE BIODIVERSITY
Seizing tents and belongings directly after a birth is reminiscent of racist, colonial practices of removing children from families, and forced evictions.
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Spring 2025 Courses
GSWS 314-4 Race, Class, Gender
Wednesdays: 16:30 – 20:20
Jade Ho
This course will provide an examination of the interlocking nature of race, class, gender, and other social categories such as sexuality, ability, immigration status. It will also explore possible avenues of change by learning from the efforts, experiences, and histories of social movement building, grassroots organizing, collective advocacy, so that we can ground the intersectional analysis in everyday political struggles. The course will consist of two parts. In the first part of the course, we will set our theoretical foundation in the teachings of Marxist feminism, Black feminism, and decolonial feminism to examine the interconnecting processes of racialization, gender relations, class formation under global capitalism, settler colonialism, and Western imperialism. In the second part, we will examine how these processes manifest in in our lives and how communities are addressing them collectively. Specially, we will look at areas of (im)migration/border transgression, sex work, housing precarity, labour organizing, food security, and anti-poverty advocacy.
GSWS 319-4: ST What is
Good Care?
Fridays: 8:30 – 12:20
Amy Krauss
An extensive feminist literature exists on an “ethics of care” as distinct from paradigms of justice. In these works, a relational sensibility that valorizes our interdependency with and responsibility towards particular others is contrasted with abstract concepts of legal justice and individual rights. Within Marxist materialist theories of social reproduction, care is also a form of necessary labor. Disability studies philosopher and theorist, Eva Feder Kittay distinguishes between care as labor and care as an attitude, “as labor it is the work of maintaining others and ourselves when we are in a condition of need. As an attitude, caring denotes a positive affective bond and investment in another’s wellbeing… the labor unaccompanied by the attitude will not be good care”
This class explores the entanglements of care as a technology of the state, as a labor associated with the necessities of life, and as a qualitative attitude or mode of address, with special emphasis on medicine and healthcare settings as a place where these different registers converge. All GSWS course outlines available at: www.sfu.ca/gsws
[Trans Mountain] has essentially bought the silence of the city, and at the same time, the city has essentially gagged itself.
DUFF CONACHER · DEMOCRACY WATCH
Since TMX is a Crown Corporation, this is public money shutting down free speech.
ELIZABETH MAY · GREEN PARTY LEADER
While we can’t reduce our waste with a flick of our witchy spell-binding sustainability stick, making conscious decisions can help save the planet and your wallet.
I find it quite interesting that the school’s priorities lie within generating wealth by selling off land (which, really, isn’t theirs in the first place) to developers that turn plots into apartment buildings that will most likely be twice as expensive as the cost of residence. PARKING
So I take my voter registration to a polling booth, shove a spoon of more of the same in my mouth, and force it down with a cup of diluted hope.
WHILE THE TITLE OF THE CELEBRATION ALLUDES TO DEATH, THIS TRADITION IS REALLY ROOTED IN THE CELEBRATION OF THEIR LIFE AND THE LOVE WE HAVE FOR THEM.
The film invites us to experience life alongside the people in it, taking us on a journey from one child’s first day of high school to another’s first birthday.
VIFF AT SFU
Everyone believes and knows we’re capable of so much, but to start a season off as well as we have, it’s just like more motivation to keep pushing, and it’s nice to be rewarded.
KATE CARTIER · SFU WOMEN’S SOCCER CO-CAPTAIN
CAPTAINS
Your Red Leafs Halloween costumes
It’s the perfect time for group costumes — athletes, here are some suggestions
Halloween provides the perfect opportunity for groups to coordinate costumes. If you’re part of a team, discussing what to wear for this holiday is a great bonding experience. There are endless possibilities for group costumes, and picking them out can be quite overwhelming. The Peak has researched and found some fun group costume suggestions for SFU Red Leaf teams to try out this spooktober.
On the pitch, teams work together to find and navigate whichever empty space can be found. Who else are experts at navigating space? Astronauts. Well, maybe not that kind of space, but close enough.
Track & field
are not gods, but instead individuals whose unique gifts make them stand out. They’re the perfect team costume for those who love comic books, but also those looking to just pull off a dynamic and eye-catching costume. There are hundreds of characters with all sorts of variations to choose from. If you’re looking for fairly simple costumes, the ones from the film X-Men First Class work the best, as they only require a black and yellow jacket with black pants. The Red Leaf’s track and field program is filled with some remarkable athletes, so what is more fitting than dressing as some of the most iconic superhuman characters from a beloved franchise?
Men’s & women’s soccer
Space is key when it comes to soccer. Understanding how to find, create, and take advantage of space is integral to a team’s performance. On the pitch, teams work together to find and navigate whichever empty space can be found. Who else are experts at navigating space? Astronauts. Well, maybe not that kind of space, but close enough. There are plenty of places one can draw inspiration from when it comes to astronaut themed costumes — the Apollo 11, with their bulky white suits, the Nostromo crew outfits from the film Alien (1979), or even the characters from Star Trek’s iconic crew the U.S.S. Enterprise. Instead of shooting at a net, this Halloween, shoot for the stars!
Men’s & women’s wrestling
While wrestling isn’t all fighting, a combat sport invites some rowdy but exciting costume opportunities. For these teams, The Peak suggests going as your favourite character from the video game series Super Smash Bros. While Mario, Luigi, and Peach are all great choices, there are a lot of other great fighters to choose from. You could dress as Kirby (wear a big sumo suit and paint it pink), Bowser (if you have a big turtle shell and a bit of an attitude, you are set), or if you are wholesome and cheery, try Toad. The wrestling team knows better than anyone how to win a battle with endurance, strength, and the ability to push someone off a platform. You are all Smash Bros characters at heart.
Volleyball
Volleyball requires an immense amount of coordination, which means the best costume suggestion for the team is one where everyone comes together. Pac-Man and the Ghosts may not seem like conventional choices, but think about it, the ghosts are always trying to coordinate ways in which they can trap and defeat Pac-Man. For this group costume, one person (maybe a coach) can dress up as Pac-Man while the rest of the team goes as different coloured ghosts!
The X-Men saga has provided pop culture with one of the most diverse casts of characters. These superhumans
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PEAK
October 28–November 3
Aries
March 21–April 19
Aries! The Karens of fall. You have just awakened in time for spooky season and are entering your natural state. Be aware not everyone is like you! They won’t care when you are possessed and order every fall-flavoured drink off the menu at your local café. But we will get testy when you inevitably complain that the drink doesn’t have enough pumpkin, cinnamon, or syrup. So you might be in your natural habitat, but fall will bring the evil out of the rest of us.
Cancer June 21–July 22
This is supposed to be your time of year! Fall romances! And yummy fall flavours. But now you remember October 3, when it was National Boyfriend Day, and you were sitting there alone. Once again, you are living without a cute autumn romance. The best you have are the boyfriends and girlfriends within the pages. Bring your favourite romance novel to an upcoming Halloween party to show your suitors exactly what you’re looking for.
Libra September 23–October 22
Libras, we know you. And we know you have been hoping and dreaming of living your Red era with a cute autumn romance like Taylor and Travis in a football stadium after the Superbowl. So you are probably going to dress up as Taylor’s Red era and your friends, as her other eras for Halloween. But we know that the majority of you, (90%) are going to end up looking like evermore. We all know the season, “All Too Well.”
Capricorn
December 22–January 19
Self righteous, you are the killer in the story. Don’t blame everyone from running from you this Halloween, you feel it don’t you? Did something happen and now you’re a changed person? Are the spirits taking control? When you zone out, or become distracted, how much control of your physical form do you really have?
Taurus
April 20–May 20
I see you! I know you, and we both know that you will be getting into that stash of candy far before October 31 shows up. We both know you will be hitting the stores, buying the bulk boxes of chocolate, chips, and candy — and keeping a pile for yourself. I’m sure you are already a regular who buys candy at every store you visit. So why not take advantage of the spooky season?
Leo July 23–August 22
It has become “Sweater Weather,” and you are rushing to all the stores for the hottest new knit sweaters to fit the aesthetic with a PSL in your hand. Your bank account might be screaming “no,” but your shopping obsession and the love for a new outfit take over and say “yes.” The new sweater will be yours, and now you’re all stocked up for fall with a full Hallmark-style wardrobe. However, since it is Halloween, expect the price of looking fantastic to be horrifying.
Scorpio
October 23–November 21
Like Regina George, you want to control everything from the people sitting with you to your friends’ clothes. But reality check time, Scorpios, you can’t bully or even fight the weather. The leaves will change colour regardless. But don’t let that stop you from showing some skin. “Halloween is the one night a year when [anyone] can dress like a total slut and no other [people] can say anything about it . . . ” Although if you are itching for a fight, I hear arguments over the most popular Halloween movie of 2024 are all the rage.
Aquarius
January 20–February 18
We all want to be the Rory Gilmore of fall, but you know who tops everyone? Aquarius, with their “it girl” quirks, and wannabe fall vibes. They are bound for trouble this Halloween. Or the alternative is spending the whole night indoors with a good book and a coffee. Either way, Aquarius are going to have a spook-tacular night for themselves.
Gemini May 21–June 20
Moody, impulsive, devious, guarded, and possibly acting childishly. Are you Beetlejuice? Do your negative traits align with all the good ones from Betelgeuse? I bet you’ll watch it in theatres and then ask why Beetlejuice seems so familiar. Don’t ask me; the answer’s within yourself.
Virgo August 23–September 22
You all tend to be perfectionists — so good luck carving and hollowing out your pumpkins. The slimy, gross insides do have to come out. RIP Virgos. Since you’re looking for things to stay calm and in control, this is the wrong season for you. It’s Halloween, nothing is normal, but do not worry, you’re still the pick of the pumpkin patch, darlin’.
Sagittarius
November 22–December 21
We knew lots of people would attend fall kickoff. Including the YOLO, free Sagittarius, who has approaching midterms they should be studying for. But then again, Sagittarius are typically business students and what do you really have to hand in? Business plans? Colouring sheets? Aside from that, be safe out there peeps, enough movies have shown the group of friends at a party screaming YOLO tend to die first.
Pisces
February 19–March 20
Pisces, best to go out this Halloween! Ideally a corn maze with your friends, where with your dreamy escape from reality vibe you will surely get lost. Allowing the possibility of your own Lara Jean moment in the meadow. Where you get to live your happily ever after, only after getting tragically lost in a maze. I hear “cat and mouse” has been a popular game recently. Best not to lose your opportunity for a fall romance to be replaced with a Corpse Bride style situation, and Halloween funeral.
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