Arshad Khan

The book of nightmares

TristanLaPointe — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:03:49 -0600

Lawrence Hill’s The Book of Negroes an important read

Once in a while a book comes along that pulls the Ikea rug right from under your feet and lands you on your behind. Lawrence Hill’s The Book of Negroes has just that...

Bigot preaches humanism

TristanLaPointe — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:02:54 -0600

In the Queer special issue, The Link published a Canadian University Press article titled “What is a ‘soft jihad?’” on Ezra Levant, the publisher of the now-defunct...

Take back your TV

TristanLaPointe — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:39:31 -0600

Celebrated Canadian filmmaker on intellectual property, AIDS and why he thought the film world was ‘a place he didn’t belong’

Mike Hoolboom takes image appropriation to another level. In an age of increasing corporate control of media, the Canadian experimental filmmaker makes waves and encourages...

Colour-coded Queers

TristanLaPointe — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:13:24 -0600

The challenges faced by minorities within minorities

Last week, as I was going around stores in Parc Extension postering for Taqwacore—a Montreal documentary about Muslim punk rockers—I entered a dollar store where a young...

Quick Reads

TristanLaPointe — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:31:33 -0500

Volume 30, Issue 11

Riveting research Who knew a doctoral thesis could be so exciting? Rana Bose’s second novel, The Fourth Canvas, somehow manages to make a story about one...

Queer and here, but not over it

TristanLaPointe — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:18:59 -0500

Selections from queer film fest image+nation show sexual politics haven’t lost their edge

Jaded urbanites might find it comforting to know that the people behind Montreal’s queer film festival image+nation—whose theme this year is Homo Horreur—still worry...

QPIRG perturbed

TristanLaPointe — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:29:17 -0500

I disagree with your editorial regarding QPIRG’s Alternative Orientation. Your assumptions are based on some disgruntled student’s opinion and not on the spirit or the...