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Padding the path to menstrual equity
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Menstruating individuals spend an average of 2,535 days โ nearly seven years โ of their life on their period, and Canadians will expend up to $6,000 over the course of that time on menstrual products. The push for menstrual equity, which refers to the provision of equal access to period products and furthering the improvement…
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SPECTRUM exhibit sheds a light on climate change
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On Jan 24. THEMUSEUM officially launched the ALARM: Responding to Our Climate Emergency exhibit. ALARM features a total of four exhibits, with the most recent one, SPECTRUM: The Climate Emergency Experience opening this past week at The Shops at Waterloo Town Square. The other three exhibits are Agents for Change: Facing the Anthropocene, MELTING ICE…
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Shining a light on kink culture
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Disclaimer: The author of this article not a fetish expert and is not trying to insert herself in the community. She is just interested in the subject. When people hear the word โfetish,โ their first thought is probably Fifty Shades of Grey-esque BDSM. And perhaps itโs not wrong to say that this franchise brought edgier…
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Sex toys: good vibes
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Note: Prices listed as they were at the time of writing, and are subject to change. BodyWand Mini Massager ($24.95 PinkCherry) This massager is only four inches in length, but is quite high powered for its size. Regardless of whether you want a soft buzz or a high-powered rumbling vibration, this multi-speed wand will deliver.…
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Cheerleading: competitive sport or not
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When most people think of cheerleading, a certain image comes to mind. They think of skinny blonde girls, pom-poms and dancing on the sidelines at a football game. A cheerleaderโs purpose is to amp up the crowd and motivate their team to win; they are the backbone of the teams they cheer on, holding them…
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Humanizing homelessness in the KW region
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Last year, the region of Waterloo set an ambitious goal to end chronic homelessness by Jan. 2020. That objective could not be met by their projected timeline, as the issues that people experiencing homelessness are facing are far more complex than what can be solved in a matter of months or a year. As well,…
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No carbs, no problem; or is it? Investigating fad dieting and its effect on the body
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Body image is a fragile subject in the modern world. It seems everyone is trying to look like an Instagram model or fit back into their jeans from 2011. Fitness has flooded social media with influencers who work out as a full-time job or girls who look like they donโt have an ounce of body…
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The vices with vaping: A dangerous habit that’s taking over teen and young adult culture
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โKissing a smoker is like licking an ashtray.โ I remember this poster hanging up in my high school health classroom. If you smoke, no one will want to kiss you. Oh, the horror.ย In reality though, every kid had it drilled into them that smoking cigarettes was more or less like slowly nailing your own…
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Finding answers: the debilitating journey of women who seek solutions for their pain
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“We were all just too sensitive. Fatigue too thick to make sense of phone, Trader Joe’s, Laundromat, let alone meeting, party, dance floor. We go away. Sick.”ย โ Dirty River Girl [Bodymap], Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Standing in the line at Starbucks, I feel it. It creeps up on me โ slowly at first. As the…
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Taking a chance on student housing in Waterloo Region
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๏ปฟ Itโs no secret that the student housing market in Waterloo has reached the point of crisis. To those who are currently renting, this is nothing new. In recent days, however, the โFuccommod8uโ scandal has done more than rock the boat. A recent data breach released over 6000 alleged maintenance complaints from within student property…
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