Prof. Amin Ghaziani featured in the USA Today on Gayborhoods and Pricing Out LGBTQ+ People
Developers and investors often track the location practices of queer people as an investment strategy. “This is an exploitive strategy, one that reduces the humanity of LGBTQ+ people to their economic potential,” Prof. Amin Ghaziani said to USA TODAY in a feature story about gayborhoods.
Prof. Amin Ghaziani featured in The Guardian on the rise of “queerbaiting” — or capitalizing on Pride for profit.
Professor Ghaziani explains queerbaiting as, “using aspects of queer cultures or queer political support to signal hipness, coolness, political correctness, tolerance or open-mindedness; the performance of a liberal sensibility in a self-interested way…”
Prof. Amin Ghaziani featured in Alta Magazine on the fight to keep Castro queer
Is this famous gayborhood becoming more symbolic than a reality for LGBTQ people?
Undergrad. Student Kennedy Wong featured in the Globe and Mail on his Hong Kong identity
Kennedy Wong, a Hong Kong student who recently graduated from UBC’s Sociology program, embraces his Hong Kong identity, and states how Hong Kongers in Canada seek to distance themselves from China
Prof. Seth Abrutyn featured in a Vice article on the controversial relationship between altitude and suicide
Professor Abrutyn, who studies adolescent suicide and suicide contagion, states that we should feel skeptical when a purely environmental theory is proposed regarding suicide.
Prof. Sinikka Elliott featured in Today’s Parent on the challenges some families face on finding time to cook
Time to cook is a luxury many families just don’t have. Getting a healthy meal on the table each night is a challenge for many parents, shows in new study by Sinikka Elliott, and fellow co-authors of “Pressure Cooker.”
Prof. David Tindall featured in the Vancouver Sun on First Nations’ ownership of Trans Mountain and how it could pose a public relations dilemma
“First Nations ownership would undercut the environmental movement..” states Professor Tindall.
Prof. Sinikka Elliott publishes an op-ed in The Conversation on the challenges of finding time for home cooking
Professor Elliott, along with her fellow co-authors of “Pressure Cooker,” have published an op-ed, detailing how the time to cook is a luxury many families don’t have.
Prof. Sinikka Elliott featured in the Washington Post on the decline of the dinner party
Professor Elliott, along with her co-authors of “Pressure Cooker,” discuss how today’s parents think they lack the time or skill to throw dinner parties.
Prof. Amin Ghaziani gives an interview to the French media about progressive politics, culture, and safe spaces for queer people
French media, Les Inrockuptibles, features Professor Ghaziani in an article about safe spaces for queer people. culture, and progressive politics.