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What your St. Patty’s Day outfit says about you

It’s that time of year again, and like every big Queen’s event that enables a street party on Aberdeen, certain colour-coordinated attire is more creative than others.Continue...

Testing doesn’t work for everyone

Whether you love school or hate it, everyone can relate to pre-exam anxiety.Continue...

Staff picks: Favourite comfort characters

Watching How I Met Your Mother is akin to snuggling up in a cozy, warm robe that's just been picked from the dryer after a grueling day of obligations, and Marshall Eriksen adds to this sense of comfort.Continue...

The blonde/brunette dichotomy excludes the BIPOC community

Hair: its colour, length, and style has strings attached when understanding our everyday beauty practices and ideas of attraction.Continue...

Joe is as toxic as ever in ‘You’ season four

Netflix dropped season four of You this month, giving us the latest of rare-book-collector-turned-serial-killer Joe Goldberg’s exploits.Continue...

Queen’s archetypes: red and green flags

An advantage of university student life is the ability to meet an array of people with varying interests, dislikes, and priorities. There a lot of ‘character archetypes’ at Queen’s, and with them come positives and negatives.Continue...

Roses, buds, and thorns

Going to an overnight summer camp is a rite of passage for preteens. So, a week after my eleventh birthday, I stuffed my trunk with friendship bracelet string and well-worn t-shirts before embarking on the summer experience for which I’d always longed.Continue...

Strength is a team sport women play together

I come from a line of strong women, something my mom never fails to remind me of on calls home.Continue...

The best—and the funniest—of men’s Tinder profiles

In the world of online dating, it’s a delight to stumble upon profiles that ignite the spark of laughter, the warmth of joy, and leave the heart longing for more.Continue...

Unpacking Queen’s archetypes

Our beloved campus is filled with all kinds of characters. As I venture to and from classes, I often find myself people watching and observing the masses, mentally categorizing them based on the interactions I’ve had with similarly dressed folks over my four years of undergrad.Continue...

Recognizing the women who inspire us

In honour of International Women’s Day this past Wednesday, I gathered a group of responses from the Queen’s student body to spotlight various women who inspire us every day.Continue...

Choosing the best period tracking app

If you’re a menstruator under the age of 40, there’s a good chance you use an app to track your period.Continue...

Please, no more celebrity fast food meals

Your order is served: the abolishment of the celebrity fast food meals.Continue...

Letting my perfectionism go and being vulnerable

I’m a perfectionist.Continue...

Plastic surgery can be liberating, but at what cost?

Buccal fat removals, lip fillers, butt lifts and more—it seems like every day there’s a new type of plastic surgery taking the internet like storm.Continue...

Ranking Super Bowl performances

The 57th annual Super Bowl took place on Feb. 12, and while some watch the Super Bowl for football (weird), many watch it for the halftime show.Continue...

Heroines and villains of reality television meet their match

With the abundance of reality television series on streaming services and satellite television, it’s hard not to indulge yourself. Even those who say they don’t like reality TV have watched at least one, whether it’s Love is Blind , Too Hot to Handle (THTH), The Circle, or The Mole. Continue...

The SAG Awards’ best and worst dressed

At the 2023 Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards, the decoration of our on-screen favourites was highly anticipated—but before that begins, the real fun starts on the red carpet.Continue...

It’s all AAVE

Internet lingo rises to prominence and falls into obscurity rapidly. Anyone who has had any
exposure to spaces like Twitter, TikTok, or the once-popular Vine, might have noticed this.Continue...

Finding community as BIPOC students at Queen’s

It somehow manages to hit you in the face and creep up on you all at once.Continue...

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