Skip to content

Interrobang logo (exclamation mark and question mark in a red circle)

We have questions

  • Home
    • About
    • Contact
  • Culture
  • Media
  • Policy
  • Art
  • Politics
  • Science
  • Design
  • Roundup
  • Notes

Trinity Western University continues to defend anti-gay community covenant

Are the anti-gay policies and practices of TWU contingent or necessary features of their community?

By Sherwin Arnott | 2018-06-16 | Culture

The Supreme Court of Canada, happily, was not moved by Trinity Western University’s claims that they weren’t hurting gay folks. And the Supreme Court was not moved by the claims by TWU that they were free to do as they pleased on the basis of their Christianity…

Imprints

I left handprints everywhere.

By Sabrina Buzzalino | 2016-06-13 | Culture

Reflections on safety and ways of being…

“She’s my Rushmore, Max!”: masculinity and vulnerability in Rushmore

Exploring masculinity in a Wes Anderson film.

By Sherwin Arnott and Sabrina Buzzalino | 2015-06-21 | Culture

Rushmore is from 1998, and it’s very white, but Sabrina and Sherwin think it has some redeeming features. It’s an interesting meditation on class and masculinity…

Hitchhikings

Back in the day.

By Meghan Jezewski and Sherwin Arnott | 2017-06-20 | Culture

In which Meghan and Sherwin reflect on the old days, hitchhiking, and being young and lucky (and privileged) …

Buying ourselves out of homes

Political will and housing affordability.

By Meghan Jezewski | 2016-06-01 | Policy

Renting and buying homes, for BC residents, is becoming less and less affordable. We’re experiencing the result of decades of deregulation and rabid speculation…

Bharat’s Pocket Scraps: Jeans, not Genes!

More genetics, and ebird and food

By Bharat | 2018-04-03 | Roundup

Where we wade into the “new” controversy on genetics and race, and talk about e-cigarettes, food and more

Bharat’s Pocket Scraps: Jagmeetophobia TV facebook and more

Jagmeet Singh, facebook and more

By Bharat | 2018-03-23 | Roundup

Canadian media is still hung up in the 1980s on Sikhs, is facebook really to blame for polarization, and more!

Sometimes courage is choosing not to jump

Ten Meter Tower short film documents humans being humans.

By Rebecca Cory | 2017-04-24 | Culture

The video shows a dozen or so people at the top of a ten metre diving tower deciding whether to jump. The film documents a surprising and poignant range of human emotions…

The Evil Woman trope

Over-representation of women as perpetrators of violence in crime shows.

By Sherwin Arnott and Rebecca Cory | 2016-03-10 | Media

In which the Evil Women trope is discussed. Women are over-represented as evil villains, murderers and criminal masterminds …

Friendship to the Max! A Review of Lumberjanes!

A supercool review of a supercool comic series.

By Ariane Douchet-Wheatley | 2014-11-10 | Art

I recently discovered Lumberjanes, a comic published by Boom! Box, an offshoot of Boom! Studios. I strongly recommend …

Canadian journalism fails at nuance when it comes to jihad

A critical analysis of The Globe and Mail and the National Post and the perpetuation of Islamophobia.

By Sherwin Arnott | 2018-06-06 | Media

On my view the news media in Canada have, by and large and in the long run, misrepresented the concept of jihad. They have positioned jihad as a form of villainy. In so doing they have portrayed Islam as a peril…

Some notes on why jihad is good

Canadian journalists tend to flatten the concept of jihad, and this fits a larger pattern.

By Sherwin Arnott | 2018-06-03 | Media

If you read Canadian journalists on the topic, you might not understand that jihad has some very nice meanings. Most Canadian journalists seem to commonly misrepresent the concept. It’s not just them, mind you. There’s lots of misrepresentation of jihad to go around…

Interrobang blog

Interrobang | We have questions.

A collaborative community project.

Creative Commons

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Lkwungen land, Victoria, BC

Not all of our members are from the west coast anymore, but most are.

logo
  • Home
    • About
    • Contact
  • Culture
  • Media
  • Policy
  • Art
  • Politics
  • Science
  • Design
  • Roundup
  • Notes