Ginger Without Borders

Since that faithful day when my father stupidly agreed to get a fake tattoo with me, my parents had to face the fact that one day their little girl would permanently mark her body with a real tattoo. But that never stopped them from trying to convince me it was a bad idea – or…

My first year of University was one of the only years at UBC where there was an 18+ party nearly every weekend (the drinking age in Vancouver is 19, so most of the parties nowadays are 19+ alcoholic events). However, on March 17th (Saint Patrick’s Day), everyone in Canada gets super drunk and most of the first…

Since I was about 14 years old, I have fantasized with the idea of getting a tattoo. It all started when I went on a trip to Atlantis in the Bahamas with my parents. The resort had fake-tattoo kiosks all over, and seeing as we were on vacation and I nagged my father endlessly to let…

On March 23rd, 2016, the North Carolina legislature passed HB2: one of the most (if not the most) anti-LGBT laws that the United States has seen in the past decade. In summary, HB2 defines “classes of people who are protected against discrimination: race, religion, color, national origin, age, handicap or biological sex as designated on a…