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Performing Narratives of Black Racial Identity in the Digital-Era
Congress 2021 blog edition Playwright, Canadian television broadcaster, and social activist Rita Deverell, from Mount Saint Vincent University, takes her audience through an exploration and reflection of her award-winning play “Who you Callin’ Black...
What Does It Mean to “Flinch from Black Touch?” Dr. Shirley Anne Tate Speaks on Racism in Our Academic Institutions in Big Thinking Session
Congress 2021 blog edition Dr. Shirley Anne Tate has analyzed the effects of institutionalized anti-Black racism for more than a decade. In her Big Thinking series lecture entitled “Racism's touch: 'I can't quite put my finger on it'”, she discussed...
Companies Need to Get Off the Defensive When it Comes to Cancel Culture, Researcher Says
Today’s cancel culture has corporations of all sizes reacting quickly to avoid online controversy of any kind. But if they cast their net too wide – implementing broad, defensive policies and regulations designed to protect their brand at all costs –...
Vast Majority of Canadian Women Still Live in Fear of Violence, Regardless of Age, Race, Class, Education or Marital Status: Study
Despite strides made by the #MeToo Movement and recent changes to legislation, Canadian women continue to live in deep rooted fear of rape, sexual harassment or physical violence, and worse, believe they’ll be judged for doing something wrong if it...
Toronto’s COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout Demonstrates Racism is Alive and Well in Canada, Expert Says
If you’re among the one in three Canadians who still don’t believe racism is a serious problem in our country, you don’t have to look further than our response to the COVID-19 pandemic for proof that inequity remains deeply rooted here. Dr Frances...
Lack of Digital Supervision is Leaving Kids Vulnerable to a Growing Group of Online Predators – Their Peers
A rising number of Canadian children – some as young as four years old – are becoming desensitized to porn and violence online and being victimized by their peers, and if adults don’t take action now to boost their digital supervision, the problem...
Layerings of risk: researchers document the experiences of racialized communities during COVID-19
While cases of COVID-19 continue to mount around the world, many communities face an additional, more insidious threat: "the virus of racism." Researchers across Canada have been examining the nature of race-based discrimination and its impacts...
Democracy in the classroom: Struggles for mental equilibrium, trust and knowledge
Recent events in the United States are a stark reminder of how currents of racist hatred and thinking can lurk, concealed in the privacy of people’s thoughts until called-upon or provoked. There are folks who maybe had the misfortune of being raised...
Dr. Shirley-Anne Tate – Congress 2021
We asked Professor Shirley Tate, Canada Research Chair in Feminism and Intersectionality at the University of Alberta, about her hopes for Congress 2021. Professor Tate's feminist approach to the critical analysis of race, power, and dispossession...