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To Write is to Be Creative: An Interview with Alums about Creative Writing at UTSC
Here at The Underground, we value UTSC’s community of writers. Have you ever wondered where to find other writers on campus? One surefire option would be the creative writing classes. Here’s what three of the alums from the program had to say about it.
What Makes Music Sexy?
UTSC students discuss the sexiest songs of our generation, and the essential ingredients that make rhythm and rhyme so emotional and sensual.
Is It Finally Time to Break Up With Netflix?
Amid a new crackdown on password-sharing, Netflix may no longer be our preferred platform for chill.
This Illusion Called “Love”
How the media can both shape our view of love, and destroy it.
Doctors & Dignity: A Pride & Prejudice Retelling
In a culture which can be reminiscent of Pride & Prejudice, would you marry a doctor if it compromises your small town dignity?
The TIFF Next Wave Film Festival is On! Here’s Everything You Need to Know.
A film festival “for the youth, by the youth.” The Underground sat down with the TIFF Next Wave Committee to find out what’s coming up for youthful cinema connoisseurs.
One-Sided Love: Parasocial Relationships and Why You May Be in One
Picture this: thousands of people having a one-sided relationship with the same person. Is it a situationship? A harem? No, it’s a parasocial relationship.
Hysterical Women and the History of Sex Toys
Liberating women one (or a couple) orgasms at a time– how feminist sex toys normalized sex-positivity in a world that made women out to be monsters.
Trigger Warning: themes and images of mental health disorders, suicide.
The Underground’s Beginner Guide to Filing Taxes as a Student
Students are no strangers to credits, but what about taxes? The Underground has put together the beginner guide to filing your taxes in-between assignments with advice from a CRA representative.
A Woman’s Right to Choose
A submission by a contributor that addresses the beliefs and societal systems in place that make it difficult for woman to have power over their own body.
To You, Overbearing Lover
A letter to someone who loves too much that it’s suffocating. But suffocating for who? The writer of the letter or the one it’s directed to?
Self-Redemption
Continuing the story of a glass mosaic broken by others and who broke with it.
When the World Stops Celebrating - Around the World in 4 Unique Festivities
From radish people to chasing after giant cheese wheels, countries around the world began to reintroduce some of their most unique and absurd celebrations after a global pandemic had shaken our planet out of its festive spirits.
Celebrating the Small Wins
When we achieve a level of greatness, reach a milestone, or major advancement, this is often cause for celebration. But what if we allow ourselves more freedom to celebrate the small achievements in life?
A Brief History of Making and Breaking New Year’s Resolutions
4000 years of committing to and falling off the wagon of self-improvement.
The Party to End All Parties: Celebrating the Apocalypse in Film
Welcome to the end of the world. We have a DJ and an open bar.
Fake Ads, Real Change: How a Curiously Clever Citizen Changed the TTC (probably)
New year, same violent TTC. Here’s how one clever citizen chose to protest it.
Celebration or Consumerism: What are the Holidays Really About?
“To give or not to give? What are the holidays really about and who are they really meant for?”
It’s The Year of the Rabbit… and the Cat
Unlike the other Chinese zodiac, this Lunar New Year features two zodiacs depending on which Asian culture.
They All Looked Up
Follow our character as he reacts to fireworks through the years: in wonder, annoyance, exhaustion, nostalgia. One thing does not change though. Every single version of him looks up.
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