Prof. AVP. Published author @fernpub. Anti-racism professional (retired). I am unapologetically Black.
Joined December 2013
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"Anti-racism is fundamentally about transforming systems. Everything we do in our office is anchored in this approach, ensuring that equity, diversity, and inclusion can flourish."
Kudos to the past & present team for making this happen.
@UWaterloo
uwaterloo.ca/equity-diversit…
"I have sat at the feet of poets who told me that there is power in withholding. In not offering parts of yourself that people are most eager to see."
Hanif Abdurraqib - "There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension"
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The Master of Teaching Program at OISE, University of Toronto is hosting an information session to learn more about the Black Future Educators' Pathway to admission.
Click here to register: oise-utoronto.zoom.us/meetin…
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ALT The Master of Teaching Program at OISE, University of Toronto is hosting an information session to learn more about the Black Future Educators' Pathway to admission. Click here to register: https://oise-utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYkdOmupzkoH91UFekXb8j-NTn7vzVsvc_f#/registration
Unsolicited PSA for young(ish) Black people:
Invest in a blood pressure monitor and check it regularly. This weathering will have you wake up dead.
medicalnewstoday.com/article…
"To write like this, to imagine the enslaved, the colonized, the conquered as human beings has always been a political act."
Ta-Nehisi Coates - The Message
Liberation is an individual and collective space for the actualization of humanity. To be seen and live as human.
"The authors issue a clarion call for universities to devise concrete paths to making admissions more accessible and inclusive for Black students in Canada."
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"I would argue that ‘de’ positions decolonisation as a more obviously continuous and reiterative process, which not only seeks to overthrow colonialism, but also to remove and redress its lasting traces and legacies afterwards."
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The (financial) cost of settler colonialism in Ontario. Read before you put on your orange shirt on Monday.
"... calculations by Bomberry’s department, were a judge to determine Six Nations has been defrauded, the damages owed by the Crown could be in the trillions of dollars."
After 40 years, a land-claim lawsuit alleging breach of treaty obligations in the Haldimand Tract inches toward court date. thespec.com/news/hamilton-re…
Phew. Mic drop.
We need a reset.
For years, the world has faced a polycrisis: the Climate Crisis, COVID-19, war, rising costs, and a silent pandemic of Antimicrobial Resistance.
We must act now. The future of our people and planet depends on it. #UNGA79
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We always need to amplify the work and successes of our new(ish) (and Black) colleagues on campus doing dope work.
@BFC_UW @uwaterlooARTS
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It's an unfortunate truth, but Pre-May 25, 2020, all of these awards/scholarships for Black students would have been unthinkable (and deemed 'racist'):
uwaterloo.ca/student-awards-…
It's a sad reality that future opportunities can come from past/present oppressions.
"Canadian-born students at the 95th percentile of the skill distribution leave Canada after graduation at twice the rate of Canadian-born students at the 5th percentile...Canadian students have contributed more in absolute numbers to “brain drain” in recent years."
*NEW* As Canada rethinks its international student strategy, I hope our research sheds a fresh positive light on the strategy's economic potential and how to realize that potential.
Please take some time to read our paper and help us distribute it.
👉 clef.uwaterloo.ca/wp-content…
Kendrick getting money from NFL Plantation owners.
White people hating Caitlin Clark cause she likes the girlfriend of an NFL player.
NFL players getting abused my cops.
That's a whole university course right there. Phew. Sometimes I really miss being in a classroom.
"Throughout history and in contemporary contexts Eurocentric educational paradigms have functioned as mechanisms of control and assimilation for Black and Indigenous populations."
"Negotiating University, Fulfilling the Dream: The Case of Black Students" mdpi.com/2947224
"What are the politics behind the anti-DEI backlash and what happens when workplace diversity initiatives are lost?"
@Castbox_fm. #podcasts #audiobooks #castbox castbox.fm/vb/735011929
"The answer, I believe, lies in sitting in the temporary discomfort of participating in interdisciplinary collaboration."
"So, where do we, as historians, fit into an academic landscape that seems to place increasing value on quantitative analysis? How do we continue to justify our work when very little value is placed on it?"
Fionnuala Braun's essay is live today.
activehistory.ca/blog/2024/0…