News and Updates
News and updates about our diverse and inclusive working group.
RECORDING + RESOURCES: Toward Liberation: Evolving Beyond 21st Century Capitalism
On November 6, 2020, we hosted an online discussion called Toward Liberation: Evolving Beyond 21st Century Capitalism with the following panelists: Dr. Angela Davis Dr. Pamela D. Palmater Erica Ifill Harsha Walia Moderator – Angela Marie MacDougall With introductory...
Nothing Less than Decolonization, Intersectional Feminism, and Anti-oppression
On October 28, 2020, Women Deliver announced that Katja Iversen “relinquish[ed] [her] post as President/CEO of Women Deliver [to] step back to let someone from one of the many communities [they] work for lead.” This sanitized announcement has come after Black,...
Toward Liberation: Evolving Beyond 21st Century Capitalism
As we unravel the colonial and imperial histories that bind a majority of us today, we’ve reached a life-threatening crossroad under COVID-19 critical to our political, social, and economic futures. In the past five hundred years, we had been witnesses to rising...
Racist “game” played by hospital staff in British Columbia is unacceptable, say Indigenous health leaders
Emergency room staff regularly play “Price is Right” when predicting blood alcohol level of Indigenous patients June 19, 2020 —First Nations, Métis and Inuit patients seeking emergency medical services in British Columbia are often assumed to be intoxicated and denied...
Resistance and Resurgence: Decolonization in a Time of “Reconciliation”
You may also watch this video on Facebook. We ask that you share this video with your non-Indigenous friends and family and let them know what you think of it.After attending Resistance and Resurgence: Decolonization in a Time of “Reconciliation”, we invite you to ask...
Resistance and Resurgence: Confronting Anti-Black Racism in Canada
You may also watch this video on Facebook. We ask that you share this video with your non-Black friends and family and let them know what you think of it. As we witness many people in the US protest police violence that claimed George Floyd’s life, we need to also...
Black Women in Canada and the Black Women’s Program at BWSS
Reblogged with permission from Ending Violence Blog by Battered Women's Support Services By Angela Marie MacDougallAs Black people on Turtle Island, we often talk about being “stolen people on stolen land” in recognition of the complicated relationship Africans have...
VIDEO: “Unpacking Asian Heritage Month” on May 28, 2020
If you would like to view this on Facebook, please click hereOn May 28, 2020, our panelists unpacked “Asian Heritage Month” from the lens of intersectional “Asian” feminists, Abeer Yusuf, Lara Maestro, and Kimberley Wong. This panel was moderated by Rona Amiri.This...
Register for our free online discussion on Resistance and Resurgence: Unpacking “Asian Heritage Month”
Join us and our brilliant panelists for "Resistance and Resurgence" on decolonial, anti-oppressive, intersectional feminist leading edge discussions on learnings from COVID 19. We will deconstruct what COVID-19 has presented us and compare and contrast what was,...
Give to Two-Spirit Peoples, Indigenous Women and Girls
Image by Edna WintiToday marks the National Day of Awareness of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. This day is originally commemorated in colonial United States of America as a congressional resolution, which was first drafted in memory of Hanna Harris...