Alexandria Ramoutar
A contributor to The Medium.
Contributions
A conversation with Miranda Wiseman of Theatre Erindale’s Anna Karenina
To cap off her final year at the University of Toronto, Miranda Wiseman will star as Anna in Helen Edmundson’s adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s Anna...
Essential films about the Black experience
To celebrate Black History Month, The Medium has pulled together seven essential films that candidly depict the Black Experience. From jazz legends to literary heroes, ambassadors...
Keep Sharp! Optimize your cognitive function for the present and the...
Dr. Sanjay Gupta, neurosurgeon and CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent, gained global recognition as he reported on 9/11. Since then, Dr. Gupta has won multiple...
The M List: 10 gifts that give back
When we think of Christmas—the birth of Jesus, shortbread cookies, reindeer, eggnog, skating, winter break, spending time with family, crazy sweaters, and gift giving...
Celebrating Christmas: Then and now
We’ll wrap gifts with red ribbon, string lights around pine trees, and place light-up reindeer on our lawns. We’ll Zoom call our loved ones...
Mine Barack Obama’s mind in A Promised Land
It’s Fall, 2008. Barack Obama is running for president, and I’m attending a mostly all-white secondary school. My classmates debate about how Obama could win and...
Meet the Students Behind Mindwaves Vol. 14
UTM’s professional writing and communication (PWC) program allows students to develop cathartic prose and unravel their lives through narrative writing. For the last fourteen...
These two students got published before they graduated
Writing a book isn’t easy. Many people say they’ll write one, but fewer actually do. To publish a book, writers must chip away at...
Mental Health Amid the Pandemic
Midterms, essays, group projects, and exams are on the horizon and the number of Covid-19 cases rises. It’s only the beginning of November, but...
Netflix’s The Haunting of Bly Manor is actually a love story
London, 1987. Dani Clayton (Victoria Pedretti) is an American teacher turned au pair. After answering a job advertisement, Dani moves into the infamous Bly...
Breaking the cycle
Attending school and being employed at the same time, I face a lot of confrontation head-on. Initially, it wasn’t bad—just a cycle of sleep,...
A conversation with Miranda Wiseman of Theatre Erindale’s Anna Karenina
To cap off her final year at the University of Toronto, Miranda Wiseman will star as Anna in Helen Edmundson’s adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s Anna...
Essential films about the Black experience
To celebrate Black History Month, The Medium has pulled together seven essential films that candidly depict the Black Experience. From jazz legends to literary heroes, ambassadors...
Keep Sharp! Optimize your cognitive function for the present and the...
Dr. Sanjay Gupta, neurosurgeon and CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent, gained global recognition as he reported on 9/11. Since then, Dr. Gupta has won multiple...
The M List: 10 gifts that give back
When we think of Christmas—the birth of Jesus, shortbread cookies, reindeer, eggnog, skating, winter break, spending time with family, crazy sweaters, and gift giving...
Celebrating Christmas: Then and now
We’ll wrap gifts with red ribbon, string lights around pine trees, and place light-up reindeer on our lawns. We’ll Zoom call our loved ones...
Mine Barack Obama’s mind in A Promised Land
It’s Fall, 2008. Barack Obama is running for president, and I’m attending a mostly all-white secondary school. My classmates debate about how Obama could win and...
Meet the Students Behind Mindwaves Vol. 14
UTM’s professional writing and communication (PWC) program allows students to develop cathartic prose and unravel their lives through narrative writing. For the last fourteen...
These two students got published before they graduated
Writing a book isn’t easy. Many people say they’ll write one, but fewer actually do. To publish a book, writers must chip away at...
Mental Health Amid the Pandemic
Midterms, essays, group projects, and exams are on the horizon and the number of Covid-19 cases rises. It’s only the beginning of November, but...
Netflix’s The Haunting of Bly Manor is actually a love story
London, 1987. Dani Clayton (Victoria Pedretti) is an American teacher turned au pair. After answering a job advertisement, Dani moves into the infamous Bly...
Breaking the cycle
Attending school and being employed at the same time, I face a lot of confrontation head-on. Initially, it wasn’t bad—just a cycle of sleep,...