Posts by UCN

Madison Gurniak            Ali Cobby Eckermann was born in 1963 in Adelaide and identifies herself as a Yankunytjatjara/ Kokatha. As Aboriginal, Eckermann has endured some of the distressing challenges the community has suffered in history. She was adopted at a tender age and continually suffered sexual abuse and immense racism. She gave birth at the…

Tena Hart As I look upon my mother’s hands, I see the beauty of the world that she has held. In every vein and wrinkle her soft hands speak of a life that is filled with love, triumphs, and adventure. With her hands she has traced love into the tiny fingers of me and my…

Jill Burton When she thinks back on her childhood and my grandmother utters those words sometimes, she laughs, a dry hollow laugh, like the wind blowing through a birch tree in the dead of winter.  Sometimes she’s silent and it takes my brain a few seconds to unravel the actual words and put them into…

Ally Finnerty The warm autumn morning of September 21 is the vacation day. The sleeping beauty, Bianca Blue, is fast asleep in her bed. She is a young woman living alone in a tight-knit apartment complex with her neighbours living close by. With her parents living across the country, she must fend for herself to…

Desmond K. Canning Feminism has been defined and redefined by different feminist movements and scholars over time (Calixte, Johnson, & Motapayne, 2017). Feminist ideology focuses on the male dominance and inequality experienced by the female gender. While feminism is gender-specific, it has been debated whether feminism can be universally implied since not all cultures and…

Chadwin Scatch I thought it was the end of my life and then I met you I said I would come back after going to pass out eventually I did When we laughed I cramped I ached for your smile again I prayed for someone like you Even tho I’m still a young fool I…

Paul Nicholas Matczuk The Original American Hero – The Legend of Pocahontas            America has a great love for its folklore, ordinary people making for extraordinary history. Pocahontas, President John F. Kennedy, the Winchester legacy, Betsy Ross and Christopher Columbus (just to name a few). Unfortunately, much of what is celebrated of American folk heroes…

Julie Birch As the sun let rays of light fall upon the city of Salem, the shadows grew more prominent and bolder in the wise old graveyard. Fog hovered over the grass and was particularly heavy above the assigned plots of the past residents of the infamous haunted city. Moans started erupting from under the…

Sarah Brown The fight for women’s bodily autonomy has been a topic widely discussed within feminist circles, and has been gaining media attention in specific issues such as the right to have an abortion. However, the abortion debate has overshadowed a much larger problem that spans the globe. Bodily autonomy is not simply confined to…

Tena Hart There is love in the midnight sky, And it is you and me. It is the moon and the stars that shine, From the heavens. As if they had sent a dove, To guide me through, This new and exciting time. A love that has given me the ultimate blessing which is Gods…