Rafael Zen
Articles by Rafael Zen
No Child Alone: an app designed to support children during the COVID pandemic
November 23 2020 LocalAlissa Antle, PhD, explains that a collaboration between Simon Fraser University (SFU) and Curatio, a digital health company that develops peer-to-peer private online support communities, is …
World Philosophy Day - One becomes a woman: Feminist Philosophy and a world of intersectionalities
November 2 2020 Cover Story Photo courtesy of RF Studio
On Nov. 19, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) will …
International Pronouns Day -A matter of human dignity
October 19 2020 CommunityPeople from all over the world will be invited to raise gender visibility through online and local affirmative actions towards a non-binary notion of gender on Oct. 21. Registration has started …
The Sky on The Skin A call to discuss the global pandemic of misogyny through theater and performance
September 21 2020 CultureSet to premiere in Vancouver in 2021, Santiago Farías Calderón’s translation of Mexican playwright Edgar Chías looks at different forms of abuse towards women as it invites the audience to …
Time for radical equality
August 17 2020 ColumnsHaving just arrived from Brazil in December 2019, my experience has been mostly related to minimum wage jobs and customer service. Isolated from friends, my face-to-face interactions involve …
Grass Drama Entering expanded states of consciousness
August 17 2020 ArtVancouver-based visual artist Julian Yi-Jong Hou’s first solo exhibition, a multi-sensorial experience bridging Pagan traditions from Europe and Zen Buddhist practices, is featured at the …
Vancouver Queer Film Festival - Breaking Fast portrays love and joy as an act of resistance
July 6 2020 CultureVQFF’s Closing Gala Film, Breaking Fast by Mike Mosallam, delivers an intelligent rom-com that portrays love and joy as an act of …