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It’s time to pursue more intimate, meaningful relationships in person

Written on July 26, 2021. Posted in Lifestyle, Student Life.

I’m in the throes of a hot, healing girl summer. Having both finished my undergrad and accepted an offer to the Master’s program of my dreams, I’ve been enjoying a period of limited responsibilities. Whereas I spent the early months of 2021 locked in my bedroom, my summer off has blossomed into a...

It’s time to pursue more intimate, meaningful relationships in person

Written on July 26, 2021. Posted in Lifestyle, Student Life.

During COVID-19, casual sex merits more precautions

Written on September 18, 2020. Posted in Editorials.

Casual sex is a hallmark of university culture and, even in the midst of a pandemic, isn’t going away anytime soon. Instead of shaming the people sleeping around, we should acknowledge that casual sex might be a symptom of the loneliness we’re all experiencing right now. Having multiple partners has...

A scheduling conflict with commitment

Written on September 13, 2016. Posted in Opinions.

Hook-up culture is getting us nowhere but into a mess of tangled sheets and unreturned text messages. It’s one of the not-so-glamorous trademarks of our generation, and has resulted in more than a handful of millennials keeping their relationships so physically intimate that little exists beyond just...

Yes, I’m aware I’m Asian

Written on February 26, 2016. Posted in Editorials.

When I think of a racist, I picture someone throwing insults at a certain ethnicity. I didn’t realize racism could be disguised in the form of admiration — until I started using Tinder. More times than I can count, men on the dating app have tried to start a conversation by pointing out that I’m...

Algorithmic love

Written on October 30, 2015. Posted in Editorials.

Holographic hook-ups? Swipes for sex? Technology is changing the way we build love and relationships in the modern world. Technology is often thought to dehumanize relationships, ironically making people more disconnected through its lack of face-to-face interaction. In my opinion, technology is...

Re:Vers-ing sexual relationship norms

Written on October 20, 2015. Posted in Arts.

Amidst the hot summer months, a handful of Queen’s students banded together to start a riot — more specifically, the Riot Theatre company. Riot Theatre, a workshop-focused theatre company that produces student-written pieces — poetry, plays, storytelling or other creative pieces — opened their first...

Swiping left on traditional dating

Written on October 2, 2015. Posted in Lifestyle.

As Queen’s students, we live in an area with a ridiculously high concentration of young, attractive and educated singles. There’s a surplus of eligible mates at our disposal, and we’re on Tinder. Our generation is radically changing previous cultural ideals of sex and relationships, and the repercussions...

Swipe right on condoms

Written on October 2, 2015. Posted in Editorials.

Swiping right on a sexy picture won’t give you an STI, but having sex without protection certainly might. From Tinder to Grindr, Craiglist to Salaam Swipe — a dating app for Muslims looking for love — hooking up has become so simple that the AIDS Health Foundation (AHF) is worried it’s leading to...

Tinder is a winner

Written on February 4, 2014. Posted in Editorials.

The advent of the new dating app Tinder is a mostly positive development as the application gives its users a platform to engage with possible mates in a quick and painless manner that can be safer than alternatives. On Jan. 27, Maclean’s On Campus published an article that analyzed the rise of Tinder...

Screening for love

Written on January 21, 2014. Posted in Lifestyle.

A computer screen or a phone doesn’t seem like a normal place for a relationship to begin. Yet, that’s where society seems to be headed. With online dating sites such as eHarmony and apps like Tinder, relationships — and, to an equal extent, casual hook-ups — are evolving into something increasingly...

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It’s time to pursue more intimate, meaningful relationships in person

It’s time to pursue more intimate, meaningful relationships in person

During COVID-19, casual sex merits more precautions

A scheduling conflict with commitment

Yes, I’m aware I’m Asian

Algorithmic love

Re:Vers-ing sexual relationship norms

Swiping left on traditional dating

Swipe right on condoms

Tinder is a winner

Screening for love

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