{"id":14986,"date":"2021-09-22T11:11:19","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T15:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=14986"},"modified":"2025-10-20T09:45:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T13:45:14","slug":"the-politics-of-a-holiday-an-open-house-reflection-about-september-30th","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/event\/the-politics-of-a-holiday-an-open-house-reflection-about-september-30th\/","title":{"rendered":"The Politics of a \u201cHoliday\u201d: An open-house reflection about September 30th"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                        <\/div>\n    \n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/201\/every-child-matters-160x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14987\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/201\/every-child-matters-160x160.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/201\/every-child-matters-240x240.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/201\/every-child-matters-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/201\/every-child-matters-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/201\/every-child-matters-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/201\/every-child-matters-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/201\/every-child-matters-360x360.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/201\/every-child-matters.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #201f1e;\">Sin<\/span><span style=\"color: #201f1e;\">c<\/span><span style=\"color: #201f1e;\">e September 30, 2013, when Phyllis Webstad&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"color: #222222; background: white;\">from the Stswecem\u2019c Xgat\u2019tem First Nation&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"color: #201f1e;\">shared her story about having her new orange shirt stripped away from her at a residential school, communities across the country have been celebrating Orange Shirt Day.&nbsp; <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #201f1e;\">In 2021, September 30<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;has been designated a federal holiday for Truth and Reconciliation.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"color: black;\">We invite the Institute of Women&#8217;s and Gender Studies community to gather for an open discussion that acknowledges the occasion and its many meanings, as well as the way September 30th relates to the ongoing colonization of Indigenous people on Turtle Island and questions of sovereignty, land repatriation, education, and violence.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">Co-facilitated by Manjeet Birk, Assistant Professor, PJIWGS, and Ann Cvetkovich, Director, PJIWGS<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Register Here<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[63],"cu_event_audience":[],"class_list":["post-14986","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","hentry","cu_event_type-faculty-events"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2021-10-01T12:00:00","cu_event_end_date":"2021-10-01T13:00:00","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_building":false,"cu_event_meeting_room":"","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_post_thumbnail":false,"cu_event_cost":"","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"","cu_event_email":"","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/14986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/14986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14989,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/14986\/revisions\/14989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=14986"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=14986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}