Shaina Agbayani - Articles

The patriarchy of feminism

First-world women’s move into the centre has come with a price

Democratize your education

The university is becoming more and more corporate, but there are ways to resist

Intersections: immigration, activism, consumerism

Frantz Fanon observes in Black Skin, White Masks that “there is but one destiny for the black man. And it is white.” For Francis Fukuyama,… Read More »Intersections: immigration, activism, consumerism

Organizing against legal invasion

Professor Adrienne Hurley explores the U.S. military’s impact on Guam, in a V-Day discussion event

Sikh Langar

Food fights social hierachy

Masculine military muscle

Discharged American soldier Steven Green is currently attempting to repeal a life-sentence for his participation in the gang-rape and murder of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl… Read More »Masculine military muscle

Watch out, I’mma censor you foo’

Political correctness, protest, and the Kay family

Art, science, faith

The politics undergirding our beliefs

We are living in a Panopticon world

Knowledge is power – power to control the narrative

Debt = Delirium

Debt. A humble $40,000 quantifies my undergraduate education by its dusk. Economists prognosticate that by 2012, U.S. debt will eclipse its GDP. $3 trillion represents… Read More »Debt = Delirium

Others are not tools of the self

Our society’s way of viewing relationships leaves us painfully alone

Aboriginal youth speak out

Jessica Yee and Melissa Elliott spoke at Concordia University September 23, at a panel discussion on Aboriginal youth rights. Elliott is the co-founder of Young… Read More »Aboriginal youth speak out

Your mind isn’t colourblind

Images of empowerment can defeat subconscious racism