A Grove of Ashes and Aspens

  • Death of a Program: Mourning the Arts in a Time of Need

    Now Playing: At the Court of the Wild Hunt by Elvenking So, here we are once again. The start of a new academic year. This time last year, I was just starting the Music Industry Arts program at Algonquin College, and I thought it was going to be really cool to be sitting in front…

  • Polyamory: Stigma and Other Social Judgements

    Now Playing: Herdchant by Elvenking Within the realm of what is considered socially standard, we are assigned a gender based on an observation of (and, in the case of some intersex children, surgery on) our external gonads, and from that, we are expected to fall in love and want to have sex with exactly one…

  • So What Am I Doing Now?

    Now Playing: Rapture by Elvenking So it’s October, and the first month of the new academic year has come and gone here in Canada. But what does that mean for me? Well, a couple of things. I’m taking a year or so off from university (it’s complicated), and instead going to a college here in…