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Articles by Mariam Vakani
Learning That I Can Be a Person Without Implicating Someone in My Definition of Self
There is a lot of life happening right now. I have been trying to unlearn my tendency towards codependency. I have grown into the comfort of caretaking – to only be Someone’s Something is safe. It does not require that I know who I am, that I define myself by who I am to myself or that I belong to myself. After moving out, I walked through Istanbul Airport, adrift, waiting for my flight to Toronto.
'The Bold Type' 3x05 Review: "Technical Difficulties"
FeaturesThe Bold TypeTV Mariam VakaniMay 8, 20190 And we’re back to Scarlet this week, folks! The ladies of the Bold Type have been busy, and I absolutely loved how plot-driven this episode was. Like I said last week, the plot of the season has really picked up and the girls are in the thick of things. This week in the Scarlet headquarters… Safford has been hacked! The hackers are asking for 30 million in Bitcoin or they’re going to release all of Scarlet’s data to the public.
What if We Were All One Colour? The Blue Series by Lakshmi Hussain
What if We Were All One Colour? The Blue Series by Lakshmi Hussain by Amaliah Team in Identity on 6th September, 2021 “The Blue Series is a series of portraits and it’s mostly women which enables me to explore the world around me. Our world is incredibly diverse, my children have inherited nearly 8 different cultural backgrounds through birthright and migration, this project aims to highlight this.
A Look at ‘Motherless Daughters’ by Hope Edelman and a Candid Reflection of Losing My Mother
Six months after my mother’s passing, I was sitting on the steps of the student centre with a friend whose mother had cancer. We talked for hours about anticipatory grief, seeing our once invincible mothers riddled with illness, and learning to become more than we ever thought we would have to be. She asked me what I did when I missed my mother and I became suddenly aware that I never don’t miss her.
Your Self Care Reminder: Finals Season
The past two weeks have been the most stressful of the semester. We’re all writing last minute essays, looking at our exam schedules in horror, regretting having not done our readings on time and surviving on two hours of sleep and diets of coffee and pizza from the Hub. Self-care has flung itself out of the window and our social lives are laughing together on a train somewhere far, far, far away from us. We’re a university campus comprised of almost-breakdowns.
Cultivating Conversations: Professor Dale Smith, Poets and Poetry
In the daily grind of university life, each lecture you attend starts to meld into the next in the same wave of droning voices chanting facts in your direction, all blurring into white noise. Being in a classroom with Professor Dale Smith, however, is an experience onto itself. Soft spoken but energetic, his classrooms always provide the most comfortable space to engage with what you’re learning.
"What My Trembling Voice Means Is.."
It’s worthy of mention that I don’t have clinical anxiety, or anxiety medications, or really anything that puts an official label on it, but for the purposes of this article we’re going to call it social anxiety and I have plenty of Google searches, breathless panic and painful memories to back me up.
The Freshman Guide to Ryerson: The Commuter's Daily Essentials!
Summer seems to have flown by and the fall semester is upon us. Many incoming freshmen are likely commuter students, surfing subways and hopping on buses to make it to campus on time. Commuting is not as difficult as it sounds, but let’s be real, it’s not great.
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