ASTU100 || HI IT'S K.YLO'S MIND

“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around for a while, you could miss it.” (Shoutout to Ferris Bueller’s Day Off for the quote, I love that movie, I highly recommend watching it if you haven’t seen it already) It’s crazy to think that in just a few weeks, the school year will end. It honestly feels like it has just started because it went by so fast. Anyway, this transition from high school to university has come to be something else. Coming into UBC I didn’t…read more

“The question is, what type of human do I want to be? How do I want to use my platform? Do I want to be safe under my umbrella of white privilege? Or do I want to push back and resist?” On Wednesday, our Global Citizens CAP stream had a second joint lecture of the school year; focusing on the Black Lives Movement after touching on the refugee crisis in the first term. We also expanded on our discussions about global citizenship using this contemporary movement as a lens. Personally,…read more