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January 13, 2025

Things I Wish I Knew: Fall 2024 Roundup

by Christa Agoawike You asked, we answered- again! If you missed our instagram stories, you can check out our answers in the sections be...

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January 7, 2025

Therapy-Speak: A Tool for Emotional Manipulation?

by Luke Forrester (he/they) I’ve been thinking a lot about how the words we use to heal can sometimes end up hurting. When Sarah Brady p...

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January 3, 2024

Things I Wish I Knew: Fall 2023 Roundup

by Christa Agoawike, SASC Educator You asked, and we answered! Below you'll find a recap of all of the anonymous Things I Wish I Knew qu...

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June 1, 2020

The SASC Affirms, Unequivocally, That Black Lives Matter

[Content warning for anti-Black violence, police brutality - including names of those victimized by police] The AMS of UBC Vancouver’s S...

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February 19, 2020

SASC Stands with Wet’suwet’en

As an organization which operates on the unceded, traditional, ancestral, and occupied lands of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ (Halkomelem) speaking xʷ...

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November 20, 2019

Trans Day of Remembrance

Written by Maren Tergesen, peer-edited by SASC Volunteers and Staff. In November of 1998, Rita Hester lost her life to anti-tran...

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December 2, 2017

Pro-Choice vs. Pro-Life

Something that’s I’ve always found pretty confusing about the pro-choice vs pro-life dichotomy is how the two groups have been named. Referr...

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May 6, 2016

UBC Sexual Assault Response And Prevention: What’s happening and how you can get involved

Hello! First off congratulations to those who had exams on finishing them up! While I am sure that many of you are now turning to thoughts ...

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April 5, 2016

Uncertain Progress – Canadian Sexual Assault Laws

Written by Clay Roth In 1983, profound changes started to shift the Canadian legal framework for sexual assault. In addition to expanding t...

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December 21, 2015

Spotlight on CiTR’s Women’s Collective

I spoke with Elizabeth Holliday, the coordinator of CiTR’s Women’s Collective, about the backstory behind this new programming initiative at...

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