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July 24, 2017 - Volume 156, Issue 12
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COVER Trembling Void Studios THIS WEEK’S CONTRIBUTORS Aaron Richardson PEAK ASSOCIATES Melissa Campos, Neil MacAlister, Gabrielle McLaren, Vincent Justin Mitra, Aliocha Perriard-Abdoh, Bernice Puzon, Reslus, Grace Rose, Henry Tran, Eva Zhu STAFF ILLUSTRATORS/ PHOTOGRAPHERS Tiffany Chan, Cora Fu, Chris Ho, Alisha Lee, Emma Wu, Carolyn Yip EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Courtney Miller | eic@the-peak.ca COPY EDITOR Natasha Tar | copy@the-peak.ca PRINT NEWS EDITOR Cecile Favron | news@the-peak.ca OPINIONS EDITOR Zach Siddiqui | opinions@the-peak.ca FEATURES EDITOR Jessica Pickering | features@the-peak.ca ARTS EDITOR Alex Bloom | arts@the-peak.ca HUMOUR EDITOR Janis McMath humour@the-peak.ca PRODUCTION AND DESIGN EDITOR Linda Shu production@the-peak.ca ASSISTANT PRODUCTION EDITORS Matthew Fong, Elena Hsu PHOTO EDITOR Alexa Tarrayo photos@the-peak.ca MULTIMEDIA EDITOR Adam Madojemu multimedia@the-peak.ca
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Spider-Man: Homecoming breaks the webslinging hero's losing streak
NEWS
Graduate Student Society hits the 10-year mark
OPINIONS
Give actors with disabilities the roles they deserve
HUMOUR
Dear Instacrush, your face makes me moan; your stupidity makes me groan
FEATURE
Take a look into what the Semester in Development program is like
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News
Aliocha Perriard-Abdoh Peak Associate
Cecile Favron Print News Editor
Cecile Favron / Print News Editor
July 24, 2017 news@the-peak.ca
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Henry Tran Peak Associate
Cecile Favron Print News Editor
Cecile Favron / Print News Editor
news@the-peak.ca
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Henry Tran Peak Associate
Fall 2017 Courses GSWS 208-3 Diagnosing Difference: Race and Gender in Global Medical Perspective Mondays: 14:30 – 17:20 Coleman Nye Are certain diseases more common in some racial groups? Do women and men really have different brains? This course explores this how race and gender are defined and diagnosed within medical knowledge systems, health technologies, and clinical practices in different cultural and historical contexts. We will examine how forms of social difference and political inequality impact health global outcomes; how medical technologies – from the spirometer to the speculum – are connected to changing social understandings of race and gender; the ways that doctors’ understandings of social differences inform their approach to the research and treatment of disease in different populations; the place of race and gender in medical training in global contexts; and the role of patients and publics in shaping medicine from AIDS activism to stem cell research.
GSWS 320-4 ST: Gender, Ethnicity, and the Politics of Fitness Culture Wednesdays: 17:30 – 21:20 (Harbour Centre)
“Unless there are environmental regulations . . . that are sufficiently rigorous, then Canadians are not going to support [additional] mining activities.” Dan Woynillowicz, Clean Energy Canada
Joy Walcott-Francis
Consider the following sport “moments”: the persistence of sex-testing that targets female athletes; US athletes kneeling during the national anthem to demonstrate support for the Black Lives Matter movement; continued efforts to change racist team names and mascots; disputes over inequitable resource allocations for men’s and women’s teams; protests in Brazil during the World Cup and Rio Olympics. Analyzing these disparate examples requires asking how relations of power inhabit and become manifest in sport: in its institutions, spaces, media coverage, and popular discourse. This course addresses this and related questions to interrogate the social investment in sport as a “neutral” site where athletic excellence is performed and consumed.
GSWS 333-4 ST: RWW Adv Seminar: Critical Nonsexualities
Tuesdays: 8:30 – 12:20
Ela Przybylo
Critical Nonsexualities will provide students with the opportunity to explore the erotic currents of nonsexual forms of relating and their challenge to thinking sexuality studies today. While sexuality studies and queer theory have tended to centralize sex as a dominant mode of intimate relating and resistance, this course will both (a) explore the nonsexual and asexual traces of feminist and queer thinking on sexuality as well as (b) focus on literatures specifically attuned to nonsexual and asexual erotic modes as they intersect with compulsory sexuality, religiosity, gender, ability, race and racism, settler colonialism, transnationalism, mononormativity, and other systems of power.
GSWS 399-4 Gender, Sex and Numbers (Q)
Fridays: 9:30 – 13:20
Tiffany Muller Myrdahl
In an era when “Big Data” rules, a critical engagement with the production, collection, and analysis of data (of all kinds) is ever important. This course examines the how and why of quantitative data from a feminist perspective. Students will be introduced to quantitative measurements and their uses, especially within social justice movements and policy circles. With an emphasis on feminist empiricist and critical quantitative methods like stats-n-action, students will make use of basic statistical concepts and methods and conduct basic census and survey data analysis. Through an exploration of topics like smart cities, economic justice, population change, and tools used to address urban liveability (safety, housing, transit), students will learn to interpret and evaluate quantitative data.
All GSWS course outlines available at: www.sfu.ca/gsws
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Zach Siddiqui Opinions Editor
Natasha Tar Copy Editor
Zach Siddiqui / Opinions Editor
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Aliocha Perriard-Abdoh Peak Associate
FACULTY OF ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
FASS Canada 150 Courses Fall 2017
ARTS AR R RT T AN A N ND D FASS 350-4 Canada 150 Creative Community MashUp Dr. Milan Singh
WL 106-3 Translation Nation: The Languages of Canada (World Literature) Dr. Melek Ortabasi
SOCIA SOCIAL SO S OC OC CIAL IA POL 121-3 Political Engagement (Political Science) Dr. Clare McGovern
SC SCIENCES S CIENC CIEN NCE ES S HIST 331/POL 328-4 Speaking Canadian: 150 years of Linguistic Diversity & Language Politics (History/Political Science) Dr. Rémi Léger & Dr. Nicolas Kenny GSWS 312-4 Immigrants, Women & Transnational Migration (Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies) Dr. Habiba Zaman Learn more:
www.sfu.ca/fass/fass-canada-150-program/fass-canada-150-courses.html
Feature
Jessica Pickering / Features Editor
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Opinions
Zach Siddiqui / Opinions Editor
opinions@the-peak.ca
Arts
Alex Bloom / Arts Editor
July 24, 2017 arts@the-peak.ca
the switch a show that tells the stories of transgender people through humour
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Alex Bloom / Arts Editor
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Janis McMath / Humour Editor
humour@the-peak.ca
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Maia Odegaard / Business Manager
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