Pride 2016
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Padding the path to menstrual equity
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Menstruating individuals spend an average of 2,535 days — nearly seven years — 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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Depression doesn’t look the same for everyone
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In my social circles I often find others who view depression with these three main points in mind: first, their uncleanliness; second, they’re always walking around moping; and third, they’re someone who is introverted. Of course, there are many more, but I find these to be the most popular assumptions, which is made even more clear when people act so surprised when they find out about my mental health. My favourite comment is, “but you look…
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The ABC’s of OCD: Addressing the misconceptions
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Obsessive compulsive disorder is often associated with organization and cleanliness. We often see fictional characters with cutesy, obsessive habits and their OCD can be magically cured when they fall in love. The idealized version of the mental illness is far from the reality. “When you hear that someone has OCD, it’s like, “oh they clean…
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Unsigned: Understanding less common mental illnesses
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There’s more to mental illness than the big guys: anxiety and depression. It seems to make a lot of sense. These are the mental illnesses that we see in the media and the more common illnesses in our university setting. Maybe that’s why real representations of other illnesses are so startling. Looking at OCD, the…
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Breaking down some misconceptions about type 1 diabetes
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Let’s cut to the chase, shall we? I’m 21-years-old and I have type 1 diabetes. Many people are vastly unaware of what diabetes really is, apart from some vague information they may have picked up from the internet or media. I can’t fault this, as I could have been in the same boat had I…
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Tri-Pride festival coming to Kitchener-Waterloo
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Summer after summer we watch many cities gather to celebrate LGBTQ communities around the world. This year there is a pride festival coming to Kitchener-Waterloo, also known as the tri-cities. Alex Chunaco, the coordinator of this weeklong festival, expressed how meaningful this event is for our communities. “Since 1995, pride festivals have had traditions of…
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‘Homeless in Waterloo’ page created to raise awareness
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Members of the community in the Waterloo Region have been nothing but supportive of the newly developed Homeless in Waterloo Facebook page. The overwhelmingly positive response has been encouraging for founder, fourth-year Wilfrid Laurier University business and administration student, Justin Chan. The page was started March 9 of this year, with the intention of breaking…
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