Tag: Trauma

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Inside the mind of Jowita Bydlowska and her latest novel

November 12, 2024

The Toronto Metropolitan University instructor returned to themes of addiction, toxic relationship dynamics and self-destruction in her latest book, Monster

An illustration of an open book from which a brown-skinned fist emerges, breaking a chain attached to its wrist.

TMU criminology professor facilitates panel discussion on prison abolition

November 7, 2024

Four years after the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, communities across North America continue to fight against the prison-industrial complex.

The ghost of my high school past

A TMU student’s journey through the haunting shadows of teenagehood to university triumphs

A class moved online brings back flashbacks for a ‘Zoom boomer’ TMU student

A student gets a visit from a lingering fear of the past: online classes

A woman writing in her notebook looking stressed with books and papers scattered around her

At what cost: How scholarship applications re-traumatize BIPOC students

November 9, 2021

Students report putting hours of time and emotional labour into applications they may never hear back from

Black woman with long hair and glasses.

A Conversation with Eternity Martis on the importance of Black Joy

November 3, 2020

Martis is the best-selling author of They Said This Would Be Fun: Race, Campus Life, and Growing Up

Fun & Satire The Darkest Timeline

Creative freelancer runs out of personal narratives to profit off of

October 8, 2019

Moon has banked on her traumatic experiences to pay her bills. But she’s run into a new problem: she has no more emotional trauma to exploit in her work.

A guide to confronting a prof, staff member or student

Confrontation isn’t your enemy. Here’s a list of resources that can help

Features Love, Sex & Health

Love, Sex & Health: We did a kinky Q&A with a kink blogger

February 12, 2019

Interview by Connor Thomas For our special Love, Sex & Health issue, Eye reporter Connor Thomas interviewed sex blogger and manager of one of Ontario’s Stag Shop locations, who has asked to remain anonymous. In the discussion she talked to me about fetishes and why they matter: how they come to be, how trauma can […]

Healing through words

November 1, 2017

Growing up in Nangarhar, Afghanistan, Sulaiman Wahid witnessed first-hand the trauma children endure when left behind by political unrest. The third-year Ryerson law and business student has taken to writing poems to acknowledge the experiences of those still struggling back in his home country