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UVic’s sex playlist is live and libidinous

With the release of the Martlet's annual Sex & Gender issue, we teamed up with CFUV101.9FM to make UVic's sex playlist — featuring 100+ students' best getting-it-on jams. We know…

Nobody seems to want kids these days

The language surrounding this vulnerable group has become increasingly alarming. People online refer to both children and pregnant people as “disgusting,” and they call children “crotch goblins,” or “failed pull-outs.”

UVic “Modern Love” Stories

These essays, true to the theme of this issue, concern sex, gender, and love. They range from hilarious to tearjerking, and represent a variety of lived experiences — no two…

Tough Love

Fate placed our university dorms side-by-side, causing us to meet again for the first time since infancy. Mabel and I bonded when the toilet overflowed into our rooms.

Answers in God’s Country

A couple of days before leaving for Nakusp, I’d broken up with my girlfriend Mandy in her room — surprising, in a way, us both.

Dancing with Hearts

By the time I’ve gotten the grade back for my story, an A+ (let’s go), I’m signed up to perform at the same show Robyn will be in. It’ll be…

Feminist Film Club

I hate to reference Bruno Mars, but after meeting my best friends I feel like I had been locked out of heaven. For too lo-oo-o-oo-ong.

Deal or No Deal

That’s the reality of losing yourself to the apps. You begin to treat yourself like clickbait. How can I grab their attention? How can I get a response? How can…

First Nations and UVic researchers convene to raise their voices about local herring fishery

“The DFO and the Minister of Fisheries [seem] to be ignoring the First Nations, and that's why the Hereditary Chiefs are stepping up to the fight now,” said Chief Pelkey.