Archives: race

Thursday, June 10, 2021

[Millennials’ Voices] Digital Painting: “bad day”

. By Heather McLaughlin This piece, entitled, bad day, is based on the work on Vivek Shraya’s 2018 book, I’m Afraid of Men. The book details Shraya’s experience as a transwoman of colour as she navigates a Eurocentric world of surveillance, internalized and externalized forms of misogyny, culminating in her fear of men and... More

Thursday, June 10, 2021

[Millennials’ Voices] Collage: Too Black & Not Black Enough

  By Taia Goguen-Garner Too Black & Not Black Enough is a collection of family photos from my early childhood. This collage depicts being of mixed race (Black & White) and growing up in a predominantly White family. Growing up in a predominantly White family, my sister, cousin, and I were the Black people... More

Thursday, June 10, 2021

[Millennials’ Voices] Infographic: Re-Imagining Normative Presentations of Maternal Experiences

  .   Inforgraphic by Lalla Maiga   By Lalla Maiga The knowledge we have on birthing women and their childbirth experience emphasizes predominantly white, middle-class, and female adults. Most existing studies on pregnant women rarely focus on the implications of different social class locations on... More

Thursday, June 10, 2021

[Millennials’ Voices] Collage: Investigations of Mixed ‘Eurasian’ Ancestry

    By Olivia B. Castaneda In the book Orientalism, Edward Said says “Everyone who writes about the Orient must locate himself vis-a-vis the Orient”. In other words, the writer of the Orient must align with the position of the Orient. However, Said’s insights on such tensions of authorship between the writer and the... More

Thursday, June 10, 2021

[Millennials’ Voices] Collage: Stubbornly White – Reimagining British Media

  By Arifah Baksh While global media is generally moving away from prejudice and racism, British media has fallen behind. My collage illustrates racism in British media by comparing headlines written about Kate Middleton with those of Meghan Markle. Meghan is biracial and was born in Los Angeles, whereas Kate is White and was... More

Thursday, June 10, 2021

[Millennials’ Voices] Sketch: Reimagine the “Pussy Hat”

  By Sheridan Worth The Women’s March is a reoccurring event that encourages activism all over North America to march for women's rights. Within the last couple of years, the march had a new approach that encouraged women to wear pink hats that represented a “pussy cat” when marching. This idea came to life... More

Thursday, June 10, 2021

[Millennials’ Voices] Painting: 3omri

    By Dorota Babiakova My deep reverence of women is illustrated throughout my work as a visual artist. I have explored various themes of womanhood and femininity independent of the male gaze, which has often narrated societal perceptions of women. My intention as an artist is to highlight the raw beauty and power... More

Thursday, June 10, 2021

[Millennials’ Voices] Photomontage: Why we must Ogle at Google

  By Grace Girotte The photomontage, titled “G(O)ogol”, addresses the interlocking of race, gender and class while revealing structural inequalities reproduced by the search engine of Google. It aims to draw attention to “algorithmic oppression” and systemic racism encoded in software and inherent in technology’s predictive... More

Thursday, June 10, 2021

[Millennials’ Voices] Podcast: Charlie Hebdo through a Psychopathological Perspective

  By Ashee Pamma My main interest undertaking this project concerns this absurdity that Charlie Hebdo became, shifting from their fundamental leftist, libertarian ideology, going after politicians, notably the far-right National Front to extremism, hate speech and hardcore racism. The terrorist attack and outpour of support, from across the... More

Wednesday, May 12, 2021

Podcast: Lockdown

In this episode of the Lockdown podcast, host Julia Cawthorn speaks with and Rebecca about their experiences as Asian women in Canada amid a wave of anti-Asian violence in North America and on enduring stereotypes of race and gender surrounding Asian women.   Click to listen to “Lockdown”    Julia is a recent... More

Friday, December 4, 2020

“George Floyd is my father. George Floyd is my brother. George Floyd is my uncle”: Mourning the death of George Floyd

By Phaven Mehari As a Black person, I am automatically categorized as part of a marginalized community. My personal experience as a Black woman living in Canada has taught me that no matter how much I push myself to be equal to the dominant race, I will always be different, and I will experience... More

Saturday, May 30, 2020

If there is nothing people take away from Amy Cooper other than Holy shit she’s racist then we lost the moment

By Terre Chartrand  I have too often backed down out of my own fragility, my own desire for self preservation in sharing and talking about racist violence. My family is a gorgeous blend of shades and races that run from pale Northern European to Indigenous to Black. I used to think it was enough... More

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