Archives: Racism

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] 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: 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] 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

Monday, May 17, 2021

Outside of the Realm of Privilege

By Emma Pietrobon Growing up in suburban Orleans, I have been sheltered from many things. For the most part, seeing the effects of homelessness and poverty was not a part of my everyday life. I was usually surrounded by wealth, whiteness and privilege - most of my friends lived in big, suburban homes in... 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, January 15, 2021

Same Storm, Different Boats: COVID-19 and Indigenous Communities

By Molly Dawe   When the pandemic first began, many were quick to remark that we’re all in the same boat, that we’re all in this together. Though the intent of these notions may be in the right place, their impact surely isn’t. Saying that we are all in the same boat dismisses the... 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

Tuesday, October 6, 2020

Podcast: How COVID-19 Impacted me as A Chinese International Student in Canada

What was it like to be a Chinese international student when COVID-19 broke out? Mozzi Li, a Chinese student in Canada, shares her experience of racism and her crippling fear of being targeted amid rising anti-Asian sentiments. Click to listen to "How COVID-19 impacted me as a Chinese international-student in Canada": Mozzi Li is... More

Thursday, June 4, 2020

Dear White Nova Scotians Posting About Black Lives Matter, From a Fellow White Nova Scotian

By Carmen Warner Imagine that you are shopping in Walmart with your two young children in a stroller. Imagine you buy $90 worth of electronics from the electronics department. The cashier then tells you that you must check out your produce items at a different check out because they have to be weighed. No... 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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