tag:theconversation.com,2011:/nz/topics/dcmr-114547/articlesDCMR – The Conversation2024-03-14T17:07:50Ztag:theconversation.com,2011:article/2240652024-03-14T17:07:50Z2024-03-14T17:07:50ZNine years after #OscarsSoWhite, a look at what’s changed<iframe height="200px" width="100%" frameborder="no" scrolling="no" seamless="" src="https://player.simplecast.com/6e95de91-d1cf-4295-804b-8236faeb66fc?dark=true"></iframe>
<p>On Sunday, nine years after #OscarsSoWhite, millions of us tuned into watch the 96th annual Academy Awards — some to simply take in the spectacle. And some to see how much had changed. </p>
<p>The hashtag <a href="https://www.essence.com/news/nine-years-after-oscars-so-white/">#OscarsSoWhite</a> started after many people noticed that, for a second year in a row, all nominees for four of five major categories were white. The movement called on Hollywood to do better: to better reflect America’s demographic realities and also to expand its depiction of our histories. </p>
<p>The reason: representation in Hollywood matters. What gets put on screens and by whom has reverberating impacts on how all of us see each other and see ourselves. </p>
<p>So …. how did the Oscars do this year?</p>
<p>Let’s take a brief look at the evening, which started with the anti-war protests outside the theatre slowing down traffic and delaying the broadcast by a full five minutes.</p>
<p>Although there were only seven racialized actors up for nominations, there were some notable wins in that arena.</p>
<p>Cord Jefferson accepted his award for best adapted screenplay for <em>American Fiction</em>. When at the podium, he talked about how many people passed over the project — a Black film with a primary Black cast. To the producers out there listening, he made a plea to acknowledge and recognize the many talented Black playwrights out there that deserve similar opportunities. He suggested one way would be that producers fund 10 small projects instead of one $200 million dollar film. </p>
<p>Lily Gladstone, though she didn’t win, <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2317306947668">was the first North American Indigenous woman to be nominated for best actress in its 96-year history</a>. </p>
<p>And Da'Vine Joy Randolph won best supporting actress for her role in <em>The Holdovers</em>, and made a memorable appearance and acceptance speech. </p>
<p>But one night at the Oscars doesn’t paint the full picture.</p>
<p>Just a few months ago, award-winning actor, Taraji P. Henson, broke down in tears <a href="https://variety.com/2023/film/news/taraji-p-henson-cries-quitting-acting-pay-disparity-hollywood-1235847420/">in an interview with journalist Gayle King</a>. She was exhausted from breaking glass ceilings as a Black woman in film. “I’m just tired of working so hard being gracious at what I do getting paid a fraction of the cost,” she said. “I’m tired of hearing my sisters say the same thing over and over.”</p>
<p>Henson explained that in 2008’s <em>The Curious Case of Benjamin Button</em>, she was paid significantly less than her co-stars despite having third billing on the call sheet. Henson nearly turned down her role in <em>The Colour Purple</em> for similar reasons.</p>
<p>The pay disparity for Black and Indigenous women in comparison to white women in Hollywood is nothing new.</p>
<p>Here in Canada, the problem is just as pervasive.</p>
<p>Despite some recent wins, a report from Telefilm Canada revealed that <a href="https://www.screendaily.com/news/report-shows-drop-in-number-of-canadian-women-in-film-tv-compared-to-pre-pandemic-times-exclusive/5185452.article">Black women have the least representation in TV and film</a>.</p>
<p>They also lead the fewest projects and receive the least funding overall.</p>
<p>To shed some light on the issue, we spoke to two women well versed on the challenges of Black, Indigenous and other women of colour in film and TV.</p>
<p>Naila Keleta-Mae, a playright, poet and singer as well as the Canada Research Chair in Race, Gender and Performance and associate professor of communication arts at the University of Waterloo said that while we need more voices at the table, Black female artists have not been waiting for scraps: </p>
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<p>“We have been making the work all this time and will continue to regardless. While we insist on eating at the table, we will also simultaneously continue to nourish and feast on what we’ve been doing.”</p>
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<p>We also spoke with actor and director Mariah Inger, the chair of ACTRA National’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging Committee.</p>
<p>Inger warned us to remember that the Oscars represent only one per cent of those working in the industry. And that while many working actors, writers, directors may look to the Oscars as a dream, the reality is that they show up every day because this is where they feel most called to contribute to the world. And she says, in that everyday world, things are shifting.</p>
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It’s been nine years since #OscarsSoWhite called out a lack of diversity at the Oscars. Has anything changed? Prof. Naila Keleta-Mae and actress Mariah Inger unpack the progress.Vinita Srivastava, Host + Producer, Don't Call Me ResilientDannielle Piper, Associate Producer, Don't Call Me Resilient, The ConversationAteqah Khaki, Associate Producer, Don't Call Me ResilientLicensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.tag:theconversation.com,2011:article/2220552024-02-08T21:17:53Z2024-02-08T21:17:53ZThe war in Gaza is wiping out Palestine’s education and knowledge systems<p>Gaza’s education system has suffered significantly since Israel’s bombardment and assault on the strip began. Last month, Israel <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68023080">blew up</a> Gaza’s last standing university, Al-Israa University.</p>
<p>In the past four months, all or parts of Gaza’s <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/24/how-israel-has-destroyed-gazas-schools-and-universities#:%7E:text=Palestinian%20news%20agency%20Wafa%20reported,university%20in%20Gaza%20in%20stages.">12 universities</a> have been bombed and mostly destroyed. </p>
<p>Approximately <a href="https://reliefweb.int/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/hostilities-gaza-strip-and-israel-flash-update-102-enarhe">378 schools</a> have been destroyed or damaged. The Palestinian Ministry of Education has reported the deaths of over <a href="https://www.unicef.org/media/151126/file/State-of-Palestine-Humanitarian-Situation-Report-No.15-(Escalation)-17-January-2024.pdf">4,327 students, 231 teachers</a> and <a href="https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6108/Israel-kills-dozens-of-academics,-destroys-every-university-in-the-Gaza-Strip">94 professors.</a></p>
<p>Numerous <a href="https://librarianswithpalestine.org/gaza-report-2024/?fbclid=IwAR1VqwE8t9HEb46IFQDPJhl8ZFReHyyzgCAXjPfMPIGoThfbSXBEsy-Trog">cultural heritage sites</a>, including libraries, archives and museums, have also been destroyed, damaged and plundered.</p>
<p>But the assault on Palestinian educational and cultural institutions did not begin in response to the Oct. 7 attack. Israel has a long record of <a href="https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/430540">targeted attacks</a> on Palestinian institutions that produce knowledge and culture. That history includes targeting and <a href="https://yam.ps/page-11801-en.html">assassinating</a> Palestinian intellectuals, <a href="https://www.aaiusa.org/library/i-knew-ghassan-kanafani">cultural producers</a> and political figures. </p>
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<h2>What is scholasticide?</h2>
<p>The destruction of education systems and buildings is known as “scholasticide,” a term first coined by Oxford professor Karma Nabulsi during the 2008-2009 Israeli assault on Gaza. Scholasticide describes <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jan/10/gaza-schools">the systemic destruction of Palestinian education</a> within the context of <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/0377919X.2021.1909376">Israel’s decades-long settler colonization and occupation of Palestine</a>.</p>
<p>Recently, a group of scholars working under the name <a href="https://scholarsagainstwar.org/toolkit/">Scholars Against the War on Palestine</a> broadened the definition to include a more comprehensive picture of what is happening during the current war. They outline the intimate relationship between <a href="https://www.thestar.com/news/world/how-israels-scholasticide-denies-palestinians-their-past-present-and-future/article_8f52d77a-b648-11ee-863d-f3411121907b.html">scholasticide and genocide</a>.</p>
<p>They say scholasticide includes the intentional <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/14/a-cultural-genocide-which-of-gazas-heritage-sites-have-been-destroyed">destruction of cultural heritage</a>: archives, libraries and museums. Scholasticide includes killing, causing bodily or mental harm, incarcerating, or systematically harassing educators, students and administrators. It includes besieging, closing or obstructing access to educational institutions. It can also include using universities or schools as a military base (as was done with <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68023080">Al-Israa University</a>).</p>
<p>The magnitude of destruction has led them <a href="https://scholarsagainstwar.org/toolkit/">to conclude:</a> “Israeli colonial policy in Gaza has now shifted from a focus on systematic destruction to total annihilation of education.”</p>
<p>As genocide scholar Douglas Irvin-Erickson says: the original definition of genocide as first drafted by <a href="https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9781351214100-2/rapha%C3%ABl-lemkin-douglas-irvin-erickson">Raphael Lemkin in 1943</a> included the idea that “attacking a culture was a way of committing genocide, and not a different type of genocide.” </p>
<h2>The International Court of Justice</h2>
<p>During the recent genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), South Africa argued that <a href="https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/192/192-20231228-app-01-00-en.pdf">Palestinian academics were being intentionally assassinated</a>.</p>
<p>Legal representative for South Africa, Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4f_yoal4gx8">told the court</a>:</p>
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<p>“Almost 90,000 Palestinian university students cannot attend university in Gaza. Over 60 per cent of schools, almost all universities and countless bookshops and libraries have been damaged and destroyed. Hundreds of teachers and academics have been killed, including deans of universities and leading Palestinian scholars. Obliterating the very future prospects of the future education of Gaza’s children and young people.” </p>
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<p><a href="https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/192/192-20240126-sum-01-00-en.pdf">On Jan. 26, in a landmark ruling, the ICJ</a> ordered Israel to prevent genocide in Gaza.</p>
<h2>Attempting to eliminate Palestinian futures</h2>
<p>Scholasticide is not an event. It’s part of a <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/0377919X.2021.1975478">colonial continuum</a> of attacking and destroying a people’s educational life, knowledge systems and plundering material culture and cultural heritage.</p>
<p>The <a href="https://doi.org/10.1525/jps.2017.46.4.75">targeted killing of the educated class</a> is intended to make it difficult for Palestinians to restore the political and socio-economic conditions needed to survive and rebuild Gaza.</p>
<p>This systematic destruction is at the core of the settler colonial “<a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/14623520601056240">logic of elimination</a>.” It has also been applied to Indigenous Peoples in Canada, the United States and elsewhere. This <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/2201473X.2012.10648833">logic</a> drives a settler population to replace Indigenous peoples in their aim to establish a new society. </p>
<p>For example, this logic was exercised <a href="https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/palestine-nakba-9781848139718/">during the 1948 Nakba</a>. Thousands of <a href="https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/78440">Palestinian books</a>, manuscripts, libraries, archives, photographs, cultural artifacts and cultural property <a href="https://journal.radicallibrarianship.org/index.php/journal/article/view/54">were looted, destroyed or damaged</a> by Zionist militias. In 1948, <a href="https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ethnic-Cleansing-of-Palestine/Ilan-Pappe/9781851685554">Palestinian schools were destroyed or damaged</a> or later appropriated for use by the new Israeli state. </p>
<h2>Resistance: Palestinian history and culture</h2>
<p>Despite the ongoing attempts to erase Palestinian history, culture and memory, Palestinians have found ways to resist their erasure. In the 1960s and ‘70s, <a href="https://palestinianstudies.org/workshops/2023/palestinian-revolutionary-tradition-and-global-anti-colonialism">an anti-colonial revolutionary tradition</a>, produced and influenced by intellectual and political thought, was strengthened. </p>
<p>It helped to create <a href="https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1650753">infrastructures</a> for the survival, mobilization and development of the Palestinian people and their national movement. It cultivated transnational relationships of solidarity. It helped displaced Palestinians, separated across geographies, to preserve their identity and reorganize themselves politically.</p>
<p>The intellectual and political thought of this period was <a href="https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/des/article/view/28899">passed onto</a> the generations that followed. It influenced educational and political programs, cultural development and practices of resistance. Especially during the First Intifada from 1987-1993. This enabled Palestinians to stay steadfast in their struggle against colonial violence across time and space. Palestinian education and culture form <a href="https://www.newarab.com/analysis/israels-archaeological-war-palestinian-cultural-heritage">the backbone</a> of the right to self-determination. This is why Israel frequently targets Palestinian education and culture. </p>
<p>Palestinians have endured <a href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v32/n20/karma-nabulsi/diary">several periods of intense attacks</a> on their cultural and educational life. This includes the June 1967 war, Israel’s 1982 <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/jan/06/israel7">invasion of Lebanon during which a number of the Palestinian Liberation Organization’s institutions were destroyed</a> and the First and Second Intifadas.</p>
<p>Following Israel’s destruction of <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/44746845">the Palestine Research Center in Lebanon in 1982</a>, Palestinian poet <a href="https://letterboxd.com/film/palestinian-identity/">Mahmoud Darwish said</a>: </p>
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<p>“He who steals land does not surprise us by stealing a library. He who kills thousands of innocent civilians does not surprise us by killing paintings.” </p>
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<span class="caption">The poet Mahmoud Darwish wrote about everyday grief. (Photo is from 1980)</span>
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<p>The <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/03626784.2022.2114778">colonial theft</a> continues unabashed. Cultural heritage has been <a href="https://librarianswithpalestine.org/gaza-report-2024/?fbclid=IwAR2QpiHfxSB6939yfyipOLY6zVYTED_rQN7JVxTq33UCinF_-3U1xNuQFzE">annihilated, damaged or plundered</a> in this war. During the bombing of Al-Israa University in January, Israel also targeted the National Museum. Licensed by the Ministry of Antiquities, the museum housed over <a href="https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-obliterates-gazas-last-university-amid-boycott-calls">3,000 rare artifacts, which were looted</a>. </p>
<p>Most academic institutions around the world remain silent about Israel’s scholasticide. But others are speaking out. Globally, this includes <a href="https://lithub.com/israel-has-damaged-or-destroyed-at-least-13-libraries-in-gaza/">Librarians and Archivists with Palestine</a> and some <a href="https://www.brismes.ac.uk/news/destruction-of-palestinian-education-system">academic associations</a> and faculty groups. The ICJ’s recent order to Israel to prevent genocide in Gaza may motivate other scholars and institutions to consider breaking their silence on scholasticide.</p><img src="https://counter.theconversation.com/content/222055/count.gif" alt="The Conversation" width="1" height="1" />
<p class="fine-print"><em><span>Chandni Desai does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.</span></em></p>Scholars say Israel’s destruction of Gaza’s schools, universities and museums are part of an ongoing project to destroy Palestinian people, identity and ideas.Chandni Desai, Assistant professor, Education, University of TorontoLicensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.tag:theconversation.com,2011:article/2203172023-12-22T18:38:28Z2023-12-22T18:38:28ZLift your spirits with our musical playlist: Don’t Call Me Resilient’s year in review<p>It’s been quite a year. The last few months especially have been particularly heavy for just about everyone. Amid the intensity of it all, my team and I on the <em>Don’t Call Me Resilient</em> podcast produced another two seasons — in our new, newsier format. </p>
<p>Individually, each episode stands as an intimate exploration of some of the most pressing issues of our time. Collectively, our <a href="https://dont-call-me-resilient.simplecast.com/">back catalogue</a> serves as a library of critical conversations around systemic racism that can be revisited as similar issues continue to unfold in the world.</p>
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<p>Each week, we also worked towards creating a new type of newsroom culture — one that centres the need for compassion internally, but also one that asks both journalist and listener: what can we do to help make change? </p>
<p>This season has been our most successful yet. With the number of downloads we now get, <a href="https://www.thepodcasthost.com/planning/whats-a-good-number-of-downloads-for-a-podcast/">we are among the world’s top five per cent of podcasts</a> and we even made it to <a href="https://chartable.com/charts/itunes/ca-news-commentary-podcasts">Apple Podcasts’ chart for top News Commentary in Canada</a>.</p>
<p>And we covered a wide range of topics. We looked at how <a href="https://theconversation.com/why-are-brown-and-black-people-supporting-the-far-right-214800">right-wing nationalist values are growing among Black and brown candidates in the Republican party</a> as well as <a href="https://theconversation.com/why-are-school-aged-boys-so-attracted-to-hateful-ideologies-218700">school-aged boys in Canada</a>. We also tackled pressing socio-economic issues, like <a href="https://theconversation.com/how-corporate-landlords-are-eroding-affordable-housing-and-prioritizing-profits-over-human-rights-215582">the erosion of affordable housing</a>, and <a href="https://theconversation.com/dear-politicians-to-solve-our-food-bank-crisis-curb-corporate-greed-and-implement-a-basic-income-219086">our crisis of food insecurity</a>. We spoke to Indigenous scholars about <a href="https://theconversation.com/inside-the-search-for-the-unmarked-graves-of-children-lost-to-indian-residential-schools-214437">the ongoing search for the unmarked graves of children lost to Indian Residential Schools</a>, as well as the headline-making <a href="https://theconversation.com/how-journalists-tell-buffy-sainte-maries-story-matters-explained-by-a-60s-scoop-survivor-216805">exposé questioning the Indigenous roots of music legend Buffy Sainte-Marie</a>. </p>
<p>Our most listened-to episodes, those replayed and used to help communities delve into challenging conversations, were those in which we attempted to add meaningful perspectives to the ongoing conflict between Palestine and Israel. We spoke to two scholars with both expertise and personal ties to the region <a href="https://dont-call-me-resilient.simplecast.com/episodes/why-the-israel-gaza-conflict-is-so-hard-to-talk-about">to understand why the conflict is so hard to talk about</a>. We also sought to understand <a href="https://dont-call-me-resilient.simplecast.com/episodes/palestine-was-never-a-land-without-people">the long history of Palestinian ties to the land.</a></p>
<p>Our efforts, of course, would have been impossible without the brilliant scholars and guests who joined us each week — not to mention our listeners, who have now been with us through more than 50 episodes!</p>
<p>As we head into the New Year, we are sharing our <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6tzGPnRhkAFXeccciOFJdf?si=d20060c289664c63"><em>Don’t Call Me Resilient</em> playlist</a>. It’s a collection of songs on the theme of resilience, reflection and revolution, inspired by the topics we cover and co-created by our production team and podcast guests from this season and beyond.</p>
<p>Collectively, these are songs that help get us through tough moments, and light us up when we’re depleted. We hope you’ll enjoy listening as much as we enjoyed putting it together; and we hope it might bring you some strength and solidarity, or maybe even a little joy as we head into 2024. </p>
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Our playlist is a collection of songs on the theme of resilience, reflection and revolution, inspired by the topics we cover on our Don’t Call Me Resilient podcast.Vinita Srivastava, Host + Producer, Don't Call Me ResilientLicensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.tag:theconversation.com,2011:article/2187002023-11-30T17:21:21Z2023-11-30T17:21:21ZWhy are school-aged boys so attracted to hateful ideologies?<iframe height="200px" width="100%" frameborder="no" scrolling="no" seamless="" src="https://player.simplecast.com/a0e5db7e-fb55-4a8a-880e-00f8d5a0f2dc?dark=true"></iframe>
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<p><em>In this episode of<a href="https://dont-call-me-resilient.simplecast.com/episodes/why-are-school-aged-boys-so-attracted-to-hateful-ideologies"> Don’t Call Me Resilient</a>, we look at the current rise of white supremacy and how that rise has filtered down into the attitudes of school-aged boys.</em> </p>
<p>Anecdotally, and in polls conducted by <a href="https://angusreid.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/2021.10.19_canada_school_kids_racism_diversity-1.pdf">Angus Reid</a> and the <a href="https://www.girlguides.ca/WEB/Documents/GGC/media/media-releases/Gender_Equality_Press_Release_Oct_2018.pdf">Girl Guides of Canada,</a> school-aged children are expressing concern about the sexist, homophobic and racist attitudes they are experiencing in their classrooms. And the research supports them: experts say <a href="https://theconversation.com/how-misogyny-influencers-cater-to-young-mens-anxieties-201498">the rise in far-right ideologies globally has impacted school-age students</a>. </p>
<p>Many experts point to Andrew Tate, the far-right social media influencer as one of the culprits. <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/online-misogyny-harrasment-school-children-b2314451.html">Teachers say he has a big presence in the classroom</a>. </p>
<p>On top of that, there’s been an exponential rise in antisemitism and Islamophobia in Canada that have also impacted the classroom.</p>
<p>Why are boys especially attracted to these hateful ideologies? As we near <a href="https://theconversation.com/a-continuum-of-unabated-violence-remembering-the-massacre-at-ecole-polytechnique-88572"> the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women on Dec. 6,</a> we spoke with to two experts who have been thinking a lot about this question.</p>
<p>Teresa Fowler is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Education at Concordia University of Edmonton whose research focuses on critical white masculinities. </p>
<p>Lance McCready is an associate professor in the Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. His research explores education, health and the well-being of Black men, boys and queer youth, especially in urban communities and schools. </p>
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<p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/06/andrew-tate-violent-misogynistic-world-of-tiktok-new-star">Inside the violent, misogynistic world of TikTok’s new star, Andrew Tate</a> </p>
<p><a href="https://www.boyhoodinitiative.org">The Boyhood Initiative</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.gegi.ca">How to Advocate at School for Yourself or Someone You Love</a>, the first bilingual self-advocacy resource for K-12 students experiencing gender identity discrimination at school.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/667368/rebels-with-a-cause-by-niobe-way/"><em>Rebels with a Cause: Reimagining Boys, Ourselves and Our Culture</em></a> by Niobe Way</p>
<p><a href="https://therepproject.org/films/the-mask-you-live-in/">The Mask You Live In</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/pedagogy-of-the-oppressed/"><em>Pedagogy of the Oppressed</em></a> by Paulo Freire</p>
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Host Vinita Srivastava explores why racist, homophobic and sexist attitudes are increasingly showing up in school-age boys – and what we can do about it.Vinita Srivastava, Host + Producer, Don't Call Me ResilientAteqah Khaki, Associate Producer, Don't Call Me ResilientJennifer Moroz, Consulting Producer, Don't Call Me ResilientKikachi Memeh, Assistant Producer/Student Journalist, Don't Call Me ResilientLicensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.tag:theconversation.com,2011:article/2177652023-11-16T15:00:56Z2023-11-16T15:00:56ZPalestine was never a ‘land without a people’<iframe height="200px" width="100%" frameborder="no" scrolling="no" seamless="" src="https://player.simplecast.com/0ba10cf2-be56-4b6e-8598-96c6fb5197b7?dark=true"></iframe>
<p><em>Modern settlers to Palestine viewed the desert as something they needed to “make bloom.” But it already was, thanks to the long history of Palestinian agricultural systems.</em></p>
<p>As violence continues to erupt in Gaza, and more than 200 hostages taken by Hamas on Oct. 7 remain missing, many of us are seeking to better understand the context of the <a href="https://theconversation.com/ca/topics/israeli-palestinian-conflict-140823">Israeli-Palestinian conflict</a> that has been raging for decades. </p>
<p>Some of us assume that the violence between Jewish Israelis and Palestinians — a majority of whom are Muslim — is a religious conflict, but a closer look at the history of the last century reveals that the root of the tension between the two communities is more complicated than that.</p>
<p>At its root, it’s a conflict between two communities that claim the right to the same land. For millions of Palestinians, it’s about displacement from that land. </p>
<p>Land has so much meaning. It’s more than territory; it represents home, your ancestral connection and culture — but also the means to feed yourself and your country. </p>
<p>One of the things that colonizers are famous for is the idea of <em>terra nullius</em> – that the land is empty of people before they come to occupy it. </p>
<p>In the case of Palestine, the Jewish settlers in 1948, and the British before that, viewed the desert as empty — something they needed to <a href="https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/38553">“make bloom.”</a> </p>
<p>But the land was already blooming. There is a long history of Palestinian connection to the land, including through agricultural systems and a rich food culture that is often overlooked by colonial powers.</p>
<p>Our guests on <a href="https://dont-call-me-resilient.simplecast.com/episodes/palestine-was-never-a-land-without-people">this week’s episode of <em>Don’t Call Me Resilient</em></a> have been working on a film about the importance of preserving Palestinian agriculture and food in exile.</p>
<p>Elizabeth Vibert is a professor of colonial history at University of Victoria. She has been doing oral history research to examine historical and contemporary causes of food crises in various settings, including Palestinian refugees in Jordan.</p>
<p>Salam Guenette is the consulting producer and cultural and language translator for their documentary project. She holds a master’s degree in history.</p>
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<p>The relationship with agriculture and the land is the original colonizing relationship. The colonizers came in, viewed Indigenous peoples worldwide as not moving and living appropriately and productively enough on the land.
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<p><a href="https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=29038"><em>Dear Palestine</em> by Shay Hazkani</a></p>
<p><a href="https://handmadepalestine.com/en-ca/blogs/free-educational-resources/palestinian-wild-food-plants"><em>A Guide to Palestinian Wild Food Plants</em></a>
by Omar Tesdell (and collective) </p>
<p><em><a href="https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250291530/adayinthelifeofabedsalama">A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy</a></em> by Nathan Thrall </p>
<p><a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/159783/orientalism-by-edward-w-said/9780394740676"><em>Orientalism</em> by Edward Said</a></p>
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<p>Year-end debates about 2024 budgets have already begun across Canada, with cities <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/waterloo-regional-police-service-mark-crowell-1.7000460">like Waterloo</a> <a href="https://ottawa.citynews.ca/2023/11/08/ottawa-police-propose-13-4m-spending-increase-for-2024/">and Ottawa</a> proposing spikes in police budgets.</p>
<p>Despite <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/defund-police-2023-budgets-grow-1.6741711#:%7E:text=Following%20the%20murder%20of%20George,of%20Canadians%20supported%20the%20idea.">public calls to “defund the police” in 2020</a>, the budgets of Canadian police departments have continued to rise. In fact, when it comes to public safety budgets in Canada, the last five years have seen increasing investments in policing and under-investment in the social services and programs that contribute to safer cities. </p>
<p>The continued over-investment in policing is a limited and contradictory approach to safety. For one thing, police forces don’t address the root causes of violence and other harms. </p>
<p>Research has shown the “deterrence effect” of policing <a href="https://dc.law.utah.edu/scholarship/276">to be weak</a>, while aggressive policing often impairs the social relations and institutions that <a href="https://www.brookings.edu/articles/want-to-reduce-violence-invest-in-place/">normally keep violence and conflict in check</a>. </p>
<p>It should be obvious that preventing violence and other harms is better than punishing perpetrators after the fact. However, as <a href="https://www.interruptingcriminalization.com/s/Cops-Dont-Stop-Violence">numerous studies have shown</a>, this requires an investment in a range of non-police services and programs. It means recognizing the inherent limitations of policing and adopting a broader approach to public safety. </p>
<p>Too often, however, city leaders equate safety with policing, and throw public money at an institution that actually creates unsafety for many people while failing to prevent violence and other harms.</p>
<h2>Contradictions in policing</h2>
<p>Policing is also a contradictory approach to safety. </p>
<p>While promising safety to some, policing is a source of “unsafety” for many communities. This is evident in <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/firsthand/m_features/heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-carding">police carding</a> <a href="https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/policing-black-lives">and violence</a> against Black people, the brutal repression of <a href="https://yellowheadinstitute.org/2020/07/15/police-brutality-in-canada-a-symptom-of-structural-racism-and-colonial-violence/">Indigenous people</a> and especially <a href="https://indiginews.com/first-person/in-the-aftermath-of-latest-raid-wetsuweten-decry-rcmp-harassment">land defenders</a>, the harassment of <a href="https://rapsim.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/VF2_Judiciarisation-de-litine%CC%81rance-a%CC%80-Montre%CC%81al.pdf">unhoused people</a> and the <a href="https://www.homelesshub.ca/sites/default/files/attachments/Overview%20of%20Encampments%20Across%20Canada_EN_1.pdf">destruction of their property</a>, the killing of people experiencing <a href="https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform-custom/deadly-force/">mental health crises</a>, the criminalization of <a href="https://sexworklawreform.com/infosheets-impacts-of-c-36/">sex work</a> and much more. </p>
<p>This is nothing new. Police forces were created specifically to enforce <a href="https://trackinginjustice.ca/analysis-policing-colonialism-and-discrimination/">a particular, white and bourgeois sense of order and safety</a>, and police “reforms” like multicultural training and hiring more racialized police officers <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2020.11.003">do not alter that core mission</a>. </p>
<p>Various studies and reports since 2020 have provided further evidence of anti-Black racism in <a href="https://spvm.qc.ca/upload/Rapport_Armony-Hassaoui-Mulone.pdf">police stops</a> and <a href="https://www.ohrc.on.ca/sites/default/files/Use%20of%20force%20by%20the%20Toronto%20Police%20Service%20Final%20report.pdf">use of force</a>, but none of this has stopped city leaders from further investing in the institution that causes these harms.</p>
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<p>If we view the police only as a source of safety, we are occupying a particular social position: a position of racial and class privilege.</p>
<h2>Policing spending: Before and after 2020</h2>
<p>In the spring of 2020, when the police killed <a href="https://justiceforbreonna.org/">Breonna Taylor</a> in Louisville, Ky., <a href="https://www.vera.org/news/what-justice-for-george-floyd-looks-like">George Floyd</a> in Minneapolis and <a href="https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2023/06/06/Three-Years-No-Justice-Chantel-Moore/">Chantel Moore</a> in Edmundston, N.B., new attention was brought to the contradictions and limitations of policing. </p>
<p>Historic protests filled the streets in the United States and around the world. <a href="https://btlbooks.com/book/disarm-defund-dismantle">The phrases “Black Lives Matter” and “Defund the Police” became synonymous</a>. </p>
<p>The rhetoric of defunding the police may have been new, but the core demand was consistent with longstanding critiques of policing and racial injustice. The core demand, as <a href="https://breachmedia.ca/toward-a-police-free-future-in-canada/">Black feminist scholar and organizer Robyn Maynard explains</a>, is to reallocate funding, power, equipment and force “away from agents of state violence and repression, and committing to invest instead in community-centred forms of safety.”</p>
<p>However, police budgets have continued to increase by an average of three per cent per year, adding to an almost 20 per cent increase over five years. Budgets for 2023 saw an especially large increase: an average of six per cent, with increases of more than eight per cent in Montréal, Vancouver and Peel Region. </p>
<p>Therefore, the 2020 protests had little impact on police budgets in Canada. In fact, police spending actually increased at a greater rate in the three years after 2020 than in the three years before it. In some cities, the change was especially significant. Montréal’s budget, for example, increased by 19 per cent after 2020.</p>
<p>As always, police spending is determined not just by what cities decide to provide, but what police forces themselves decide to spend. Police forces generally adhere to their budgets, but there are exceptions. </p>
<p>Between 2018 and 2022, Ottawa and Vancouver exceeded their budgets by $8.7 million and $12.2 million, respectively. The glaring outlier is the Montréal police, which exceeded its budget by $35.7 million per year and $178.6 million overall. </p>
<h2>Choosing safety, not policing</h2>
<p>The political message these budget choices sends is clear. Whatever <a href="https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/after-the-2020-protests-we-were-told-things-would-be-different-so-why-are-police/article_07d8c81c-ffa4-5dbb-bb67-972a0f8fe138.html">statements city leaders might have made in 2020</a>, Black lives do not matter to them in practice. </p>
<p>More broadly, cities have failed to incorporate the key argument that progressives have always made, reinforced in 2020: services and programs other than policing are required to prevent violence and other harms. </p>
<p>There have been some moves in this direction. Both <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-community-crisis-service-report-expansion-city-council-committee-1.7007108">Toronto</a> and <a href="https://reachedmonton.ca/initiatives/24-7-crisis-diversion/">Edmonton</a> have introduced crisis response teams that see health workers, rather than police, respond to calls related to mental health. <a href="https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/ottawa-will-be-getting-a-new-emergency-number-for-mental-health-crises-1.6477699">Ottawa</a> will follow suit next year. </p>
<p>The amount invested in these teams, however, is much less than the new money provided to police.</p>
<p>As the end of 2023 approaches, Canadian urban leaders need to recognize that the safety of their cities means investing in safety, not police.</p>
<p>There is no shortage of guidance for this shift, from Mariame Kaba and Andrea Ritchie’s book <a href="https://thenewpress.com/books/no-more-police"><em>No More Police</em></a> to the excellent <a href="https://www.halifax.ca/sites/default/files/documents/city-hall/boards-committees-commissions/220117bopc1021.pdf">report by Halifax Board of the Police Commissioner’s Subcommittee</a> and the <a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ee804787469504a54387fd9/t/62d9a5671916485cdc753921/1658430826746/La+vision+des+communaute%CC%81s+-+finale+%28FR%29.pdf">alternative city budget from the Montréal Defund the Police Coalition</a>. </p>
<p>The broad imperative is to significantly reduce police budgets for 2024, while reallocating funding to some of the many services and programs that give people more safety and police less work to do.</p><img src="https://counter.theconversation.com/content/217344/count.gif" alt="The Conversation" width="1" height="1" />
<p class="fine-print"><em><span>Ted Rutland receives funding from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).</span></em></p>Despite public calls to defund the police in 2020, the budgets of Canadian police forces have continued to rise.Ted Rutland, Associate professor, Geography, Planning and Environment, Concordia UniversityLicensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.tag:theconversation.com,2011:article/2164822023-11-09T16:10:17Z2023-11-09T16:10:17ZState of Georgia using extreme legal measures to quell ‘Cop City’ dissenters<iframe height="200px" width="100%" frameborder="no" scrolling="no" seamless="" src="https://player.simplecast.com/944f8901-89d9-4868-81fd-5d165b61996d?dark=true"></iframe>
<p>Earlier this week, nearly five dozen people <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/06/atlanta-cop-city-police-protesters-charged-rico-law">appeared in a courtroom near Atlanta</a> to answer criminal racketeering and domestic terrorism charges brought against them by the state. The charges are related to what’s commonly known as “Cop City,” a $90-million paramilitary police and firefighter training facility planned for 85 acres of forest near Atlanta.</p>
<p>The Atlanta Police Association saw a need for such a facility at the start of the 2020 Black Lives Matter uprisings and started to fund raise. Many corporations have contributed to the plans for a world-class police training facility.</p>
<p>Georgia prosecutors are calling the demonstrators “militant anarchists.” But many of those charged say they were simply attending a rally or a concert in support of the <a href="https://www.stopcopcitysolidarity.org/">Stop Cop City movement</a>. </p>
<p>The protesters, their lawyers and their supporters, who rallied outside the court this week, say the government is using heavy-handed tactics to silence the movement. The <a href="https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/rico-racketeer-influenced-and-corrupt-organizations-act-statute">RICO charges</a> brought against the demonstrators essentially accuse them of being part of organized crime and carry a potential sentence of five to 20 years in prison. </p>
<p>Legal experts worry about the type of precedent this might set for our right to protest. It’s a case a lot of people are following nationally and internationally, for that reason.</p>
<p>In this week’s <a href="https://dont-call-me-resilient.simplecast.com/episodes/state-of-georgia-using-extreme-legal-measures-to-quell-cop-city-dissenters"><em>Don’t Call Me Resilient</em> episode,</a> we speak with one of the leaders of the Stop Cop City movement. Kamau Franklin is a long-time community organizer and the founder of <a href="https://communitymovementbuilders.org/">Community Movement Builders</a>. He is also a lawyer — and was an attorney for 10 years in New York with his own practice in criminal, civil rights and transactional law. He now lives in Atlanta. </p>
<p>Also joining us is Zohra Ahmed, assistant professor of law at the University of Georgia. A former public defender in New York, she, too, has been watching this case closely. </p>
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<p>“In 2020 when people were talking about…defunding the police …the state…instead of doing any of that, decided to double down here in Atlanta and bring forth the idea…of a Cop City, a large scale militarized police base meant to learn tactics and strategies on urban warfare, crowd control, civil disbursement which was meant to move against community organizers and activists. The idea of Cop City is that it’s not only going to train the police in Atlanta, but it’s going to train police across the state and across the country and have international connections…so that different policing agencies are learning similar tactics and strategies and exchanging ideas on how to suppress.
- Kamau Franklin</p>
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<a href="https://theconversation.com/students-demand-removal-of-mild-racist-from-georgia-landscape-140105">Students demand removal of 'mild racist' from Georgia landscape</a>
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<a href="https://theconversation.com/fortress-usa-how-9-11-produced-a-military-industrial-juggernaut-166102">'Fortress USA': How 9/11 produced a military industrial juggernaut</a>
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<h2>Resources</h2>
<p><a href="https://btlbooks.com/book/disarm-defund-dismantle"><em>Disarm, Defund, Dismantle: Police Abolition in Canada</em></a>, edited by Shiri Pasternak, Kevin Walby and Abby Stadnyk</p>
<p><a href="https://www.akpress.org/practicing-new-worlds.html"><em>Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies</em></a>, by Andrea J. Ritchie</p>
<p><a href="https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-fight-against-cop-city/">"The Fight Against Cop City”</a> (<em>Dissent Magazine</em>)</p>
<p><a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/society/cop-city-indictment-atlanta/">“How Georgia Indicted a Movement”</a> (<em>The Nation</em> by Zohra Ahmed and Elizabeth Taxel)</p>
<p><a href="https://afsc.org/companies-and-foundations-behind-cop-city">The Companies and Foundations behind Cop City</a> (American Friends Service Committee)</p>
<p><a href="https://www.jpost.com/israeli-news/article-711682">“Georgia State police return home after two-week Israeli training”</a> <em>(The Jerusalem Post)</em> </p>
<h2>Listen and follow</h2>
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Legal experts worry the “doubling down” on demonstrators who are opposed to the planned giant police training facility could undermine the right to protest.Vinita Srivastava, Host + Producer, Don't Call Me ResilientAteqah Khaki, Associate Producer, Don't Call Me ResilientLicensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.tag:theconversation.com,2011:article/2168052023-11-02T15:06:44Z2023-11-02T15:06:44ZHow journalists tell Buffy Sainte-Marie’s story matters — explained by a ’60s Scoop survivor<figure><img src="https://images.theconversation.com/files/557161/original/file-20231101-29-jppjnb.jpeg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&rect=28%2C24%2C1041%2C1270&q=45&auto=format&w=496&fit=clip" /><figcaption><span class="caption">Musician Buffy Sainte-Marie, pictured here in 1970, has long said she didn't know who her birth parents were but that she was Indigenous. Last week, a CBC investigation revealed both her parents were white. </span> <span class="attribution"><a class="source" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1970_Buffy_Sainte-Marie.jpg ">CMA-Creative Management Associates, Los Angeles </a>, <a class="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/">CC BY-NC</a></span></figcaption></figure><iframe height="200px" width="100%" frameborder="no" scrolling="no" seamless="" src="https://player.simplecast.com/905713b1-29c3-49cb-8c3e-59cf881d3bd6?dark=true"></iframe>
<p><em>Lori Campbell, a ’60s Scoop survivor and a VP at the University of Regina, challenges the CBC’s motives in their exposé on the questionable Indigenous roots of Buffy Sainte-Marie, legendary singer-songwriter.</em></p>
<p>Last week, a <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/buffy-sainte-marie">CBC investigation</a> accused Buffy Sainte-Marie, the legendary singer-songwriter, of lying about her Indigenous roots. </p>
<p>I immediately knew it was a big story, one we journalists in the Canadian media would be called to cover. But I had a strong reaction: I didn’t feel it was our story to cover.</p>
<p>Sainte-Marie had already <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Cy3xI_wBGD7/">come out on social media</a> ahead of the story and explained she had been claimed by the Piapot Cree First Nation in Saskatchewan. And from <a href="https://theconversation.com/stolen-identities-what-does-it-mean-to-be-indigenous-dont-call-me-resilient-podcast-ep-8-166248">earlier conversations</a> on the <em>Don’t Call Me Resilient</em> podcast as well <a href="https://theconversation.com/fraudulent-claims-of-indigeneity-indigenous-nations-are-the-identity-experts-171470">as articles written by expert scholars about so-called “pretendians”</a> — those faking an Indigenous identity — I knew kinship ties were maybe even more important than genealogy tests when it comes to establishing Indigeneity. </p>
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<span class="caption">Buffy Sainte-Marie on Sesame Street with Grover in Season 7 of Sesame Street, 1975-76.</span>
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<p>Kinship is based on who claims you and based on Sainte-Marie’s response and also that of the Piapot Nation, she’s been claimed. </p>
<p>Isn’t that enough and shouldn’t we leave this retired 82-year-old alone? That was my first instinct. To not add fuel by covering the story. </p>
<p>But then I heard from Lori Campbell, a Two-Spirit Cree-Métis educator and advocate <a href="https://theconversation.com/revelations-about-buffy-sainte-maries-ancestry-is-having-a-devastating-impact-on-indigenous-communities-across-canada-216602">who made me realize there is a conversation to be had about this story</a>. She joined me on <a href="https://dont-call-me-resilient.simplecast.com/episodes/how-we-tell-buffy-sainte-maries-story-matters-explained-by-a-60s-scoop-survivor">this week’s <em>Don’t Call Me Resilient</em></a> to explore the story from a social responsibility perspective, especially the responsibility of Canadian media. </p>
<p>She asks whether Canadian media are telling this story in service of truth and reconciliation or are they telling the story in a sensationalist way, in service of furthering their careers? </p>
<p>Campbell is from Treaty 6 territory in northern Saskatchewan and a member of Montreal Lake First Nation. She was taken away from her birth family and adopted into a rural white family in the ‘60s Scoop, and only reunited with her biological family decades later. She is currently the Associate Vice-President of Indigenous Engagement at the University of Regina. She’s also a PhD candidate in social justice education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. Campbell is also a member of the <a href="https://theconversation.com/ca/team">board</a> of <em>The Conversation Canada</em>.</p>
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<a href="https://theconversation.com/revelations-about-buffy-sainte-maries-ancestry-are-having-a-devastating-impact-on-indigenous-communities-across-canada-216602">Revelations about Buffy Sainte-Marie's ancestry are having a devastating impact on Indigenous communities across Canada</a>
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Read more:
<a href="https://theconversation.com/we-need-a-better-understanding-of-race-status-and-indigeneity-in-canada-186889">We need a better understanding of race, 'status' and indigeneity in Canada</a>
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Read more:
<a href="https://theconversation.com/fraudulent-claims-of-indigeneity-indigenous-nations-are-the-identity-experts-171470">Fraudulent claims of indigeneity: Indigenous nations are the identity experts</a>
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Read more:
<a href="https://theconversation.com/we-are-facing-a-settler-colonial-crisis-not-an-indigenous-identity-crisis-175136">We are facing a settler colonial crisis, not an Indigenous identity crisis</a>
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<a href="https://theconversation.com/disenfranchising-indigenous-women-the-legacy-of-coverture-in-canada-195278">Disenfranchising Indigenous women: The legacy of coverture in Canada</a>
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<a href="https://theconversation.com/becoming-indigenous-the-rise-of-eastern-metis-in-canada-80794">Becoming Indigenous: The rise of Eastern Métis in Canada</a>
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<a href="https://theconversation.com/how-some-north-americans-claim-a-false-indigenous-identity-121599">How some North Americans claim a false Indigenous identity</a>
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<a href="https://theconversation.com/sacheen-littlefeather-and-ethnic-fraud-why-the-truth-is-crucial-even-it-it-means-losing-an-american-indian-hero-193263">Sacheen Littlefeather and ethnic fraud – why the truth is crucial, even it it means losing an American Indian hero</a>
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<a href="https://theconversation.com/how-to-decolonize-journalism-podcast-192467">How to decolonize journalism — Podcast</a>
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Read more:
<a href="https://theconversation.com/stolen-identities-what-does-it-mean-to-be-indigenous-podcast-ep-8-166248">Stolen identities: What does it mean to be Indigenous? Podcast EP 8</a>
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<h2>Resources</h2>
<p><em>If you are experiencing trauma or feeling triggered, help is available 24/7 for survivors and their families through the Indian Residential School Crisis Line at 1-866-925-4419. Mental health support is available through the Hope for Wellness chatline at 1-855-242-3310 or using the chat box at <a href="https://www.hopeforwellness.ca/">hopeforwellness.ca</a>.</em></p>
<h2>Listen and follow</h2>
<p>You can listen to or follow <em>Don’t Call Me Resilient</em> on <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/dont-call-me-resilient/id1549798876">Apple Podcasts</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/37tK4zmjWvq2Sh6jLIpzp7">Spotify</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_mJBLBznANz6ID9rBCUk7gv_ZRC4Og9-">YouTube</a> or wherever you listen to your favourite podcasts. </p>
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Lori Campbell, a ‘60s Scoop survivor, challenges the CBC’s motives in their exposé on the questionable Indigenous roots of legendary singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie.Vinita Srivastava, Host + Producer, Don't Call Me ResilientLicensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.tag:theconversation.com,2011:article/2161492023-10-26T16:29:43Z2023-10-26T16:29:43ZWhy the Israel-Gaza conflict is so hard to talk about<p><em>With the intensification of war in the Middle East comes an intense polarization within our institutions. A historian whose family was taken hostage by Hamas, and a geographer with family in the West Bank, get together to discuss a way forward.</em> </p>
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<p>It’s hard to escape the horrific images coming out of the Middle East. And it’s excruciating to take it all in.</p>
<p>First came the news of the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israel, when 1,400 people were viciously attacked and murdered and at least 200 more were kidnapped and taken hostage. </p>
<p>Then came the retaliation by the state of Israel. Almost immediately, those living in Gaza, under the leadership of Hamas, were faced with an evacuation order for more than a million people. They had their food and water supplies cut off and 6,000 bombs were dropped on them in one week. So far, more than 5,000 Palestinians have been killed, and many more injured, in Israel’s assault against Hamas. </p>
<p>Many of us have been left with a feeling of helplessness as we watch in horror. For others, this witnessing has brought personal anguish, especially for those with ties to the region. </p>
<p>For all of us though, it’s raised intense challenges about how to talk about what is happening currently and what has been happening for decades.</p>
<p>There is so much polarization. There are those that feel their pain, loss and histories of Jewish people have been dismissed. On the other hand, those attempting to apply an anti-colonial lens to the issue are being shut down and labelled as antisemitic.</p>
<p>On <a href="https://dont-call-me-resilient.simplecast.com/episodes/why-the-israel-gaza-conflict-is-so-hard-to-talk-about"><em>Don’t Call Me Resilient</em></a>, our two guests today both say our institutions need to make room for a true dialogue — where decolonization is not a bad word. They say a contextual, historical analysis is crucial to moving forward — both at home and abroad. </p>
<p>Natalie Rothman is a professor of historical and cultural studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough. She grew up in Israel. She has friends and relatives in the region, including family members who have been taken hostage by Hamas.</p>
<p>Norma Rantisi is a professor of geography and urban planning at Concordia University who has done work in the region. She has family in the West Bank and is a member of the Academics for Palestine Concordia, and the Palestinian-Canadian Academics and Artists Network.</p>
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Read more:
<a href="https://theconversation.com/jewish-scholars-defend-the-right-to-academic-freedom-on-israel-palestine-157674">Jewish scholars defend the right to academic freedom on Israel/Palestine</a>
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<a href="https://theconversation.com/how-we-define-and-use-the-word-terrorism-in-the-israel-hamas-war-matters-a-lot-215670">How we define and use the word terrorism in the Israel-Hamas war matters a lot</a>
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Read more:
<a href="https://theconversation.com/the-wests-double-standards-are-once-again-on-display-in-israel-and-palestine-215759">The West's double standards are once again on display in Israel and Palestine</a>
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<h2>Resources</h2>
<p><a href="https://www.ijvcanada.org/unveilingthechillyclimate/">Report: Unveiling the Chilly Climate – The Suppression of Speech on Palestine in Canada</a></p>
<p><a href="https://paradigmlostbook.com/summary-3/">Paradigm Lost: From Two-State Solution to One-State Reality</a></p>
<h2>Listen and follow</h2>
<p>You can listen to or follow <em>Don’t Call Me Resilient</em> on <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/dont-call-me-resilient/id1549798876">Apple Podcasts</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/37tK4zmjWvq2Sh6jLIpzp7">Spotify</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_mJBLBznANz6ID9rBCUk7gv_ZRC4Og9-">YouTube</a> or wherever you listen to your favourite podcasts. </p>
<p><a href="mailto:DCMR@theconversation.com">We’d love to hear from you</a>, including any ideas for future episodes. Join The Conversation on <a href="https://twitter.com/ConversationCA">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/dontcallmeresilientpodcast/">Instagram</a> and <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@theconversation">TikTok</a> and use #DontCallMeResilient.</p>
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A historian whose family was taken hostage by Hamas, and a geographer with family in the West Bank, get together to discuss a way forward in the Middle East.Vinita Srivastava, Host + Producer, Don't Call Me ResilientAteqah Khaki, Associate Producer, Don't Call Me ResilientLicensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.tag:theconversation.com,2011:article/2155822023-10-19T13:28:12Z2023-10-19T13:28:12ZHow corporate landlords are eroding affordable housing — and prioritizing profits over human rights<iframe height="200px" width="100%" frameborder="no" scrolling="no" seamless="" src="https://player.simplecast.com/c864b34e-7908-4cdc-add9-d3d05288b150?dark=true"></iframe>
<p>One factor driving the housing crisis across the country is a shift away from publicly built housing toward large corporate-owned buildings where, as today’s guest Prof. Nemoy Lewis puts it, “housing is treated as a commodity, not a human right.”</p>
<p>For many people living in Canada, housing has emerged as one of the most challenging issues. This is especially true in our largest cities, where financial stress plagues many households.</p>
<p>Home ownership is widely out of reach and for renters, housing is scarce, expensive and <a href="https://toronto.citynews.ca/2021/12/09/east-york-gowan-tenants-rent-increase-starlight/">precarious</a>. </p>
<p>In Toronto, Canada’s largest city, <a href="https://www.homelesshub.ca/sites/default/files/attachments/Lewis-Financialization-Racialized-Impacts-ofha-en.pdf">vacancy rates are at their lowest levels in nearly two decades</a> and average rents have jumped nearly 10 per cent — the sharpest increase in more than a decade. <a href="https://x.com/YSWtenants/status/1708805743581765738?s=20">Last week’s rent strike in Toronto </a> is just one indication that Canadians need solutions. </p>
<p>According to today’s guest, Prof. Nemoy Lewis from the School of Urban and Regional Planning at Toronto Metropolitan University, one of the factors driving this affordability crisis has been a shift away from publicly built housing toward <a href="https://torontoobserver.ca/2022/11/08/thorncliffe-park-tenants-rent-hike/">large corporate-owned buildings</a>. And the result, he says, is that now: “housing is treated as a commodity, rather than a human right.” </p>
<p>Prof. Nemoy discusses the disproportionate impacts these corporate landlords are having on Black and low-income communities — in income-polarized cities that are increasingly accessible to only a small group of wealthy people.</p>
<h2>Read more in TC</h2>
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<a href="https://theconversation.com/multigenerational-living-a-strategy-to-cope-with-unaffordable-housing-188114">Multigenerational living: A strategy to cope with unaffordable housing?</a>
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Read more:
<a href="https://theconversation.com/cities-must-take-immediate-action-against-renovictions-to-address-housing-crisis-204170">Cities must take immediate action against 'renovictions' to address housing crisis</a>
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Read more:
<a href="https://theconversation.com/five-ways-landlords-unfairly-control-peoples-lives-129511">Five ways landlords unfairly control people's lives</a>
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Read more:
<a href="https://theconversation.com/what-if-we-treat-homelessness-like-a-pandemic-168553">What if we treat homelessness like a pandemic?</a>
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<a href="https://theconversation.com/publicly-owned-land-should-be-used-for-affordable-housing-not-sold-to-private-developers-198654">Publicly owned land should be used for affordable housing, not sold to private developers</a>
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<p><a href="https://www.homelesshub.ca/sites/default/files/attachments/Lewis-Financialization-Racialized-Impacts-ofha-en.pdf">“The Uneven Racialized Impacts of Financialization”</a> (A Report for the Office of the Federal Housing Advocate, June 2022) by Nemoy Lewis</p>
<p><a href="https://btlbooks.com/book/the-tenant-class"><em>The Tenant Class</em></a> By Ricardo Tranjan</p>
<p><a href="https://www.saje.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/RTC.DF_.report.FINALPROOF-July2_2013.pdf">The Rise of the Corporate Landlord</a></p>
<p><a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2023.2170988">Ethno-racial and nativity differences in the likelihood of living in affordable housing in Canada</a> by Kate H. Choi and Sagi Ramaj (<em>Housing Studies</em>) </p>
<p><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/lawrence-ave-tenant-strike-toronto-1.6984182">North York tenants join hundreds of Torontonians striking against above-guideline rent increases
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<p><a href="https://torontoobserver.ca/2022/11/08/thorncliffe-park-tenants-rent-hike/">Thorncliffe Park tenants protest above-limit rent hike</a> (<em>The Toronto Observer</em>)</p>
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A major factor driving our housing crisis is a shift toward corporate-owned buildings. Today’s guest, Prof. Nemoy Lewis, explains how we got here.Vinita Srivastava, Host + Producer, Don't Call Me ResilientAteqah Khaki, Associate Producer, Don't Call Me ResilientLicensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.tag:theconversation.com,2011:article/2085572023-06-29T15:03:50Z2023-06-29T15:03:50ZListen — Indiana Jones’s last ride: A legacy to celebrate or bury?<figure><img src="https://images.theconversation.com/files/534185/original/file-20230626-19-s9axwz.jpeg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&rect=36%2C1%2C1257%2C721&q=45&auto=format&w=496&fit=clip" /><figcaption><span class="caption">'Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny' comes out in theatres on June 30. The fifth in a series over 42 years, many of its originating ideas are taken from 19th-century racist archaeology. Will this iteration be different?</span> <span class="attribution"><span class="source">(Walt Disney Pictures)</span></span></figcaption></figure><iframe height="200px" width="100%" frameborder="no" scrolling="no" seamless="" src="https://player.simplecast.com/8f4853b0-cd33-48af-9d8a-77c625f697b0?dark=true"></iframe>
<p>I love watching a good adventure movie, especially at the start of summer. I have some great memories of eating popcorn in the local suburban movie theatre while we watched aliens take over a spaceship or a group of kids hunt for long-lost treasure in an underground cave.</p>
<p>At the same time, even as a kid, I remember thinking how awful some of the racial and gender stereotypes were. </p>
<p>I specifically remember watching <em>Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom</em> and cringing at the representations onscreen, especially, the <a href="https://scroll.in/reel/805944/temple-of-doom-is-the-indiana-jones-movie-that-indians-wont-forget-in-a-hurry">ruthless and flat-dimensioned South Asian characters and the ridiculous idea that Indians ate monkey brains</a> — and then there was little Short Round, Indy’s child guide and sidekick played by the young Ke Huy Quan.</p>
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<span class="caption">The late Amrish Puri played the critically acclaimed villain in ‘Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.’</span>
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<p>With the series, filmmakers George Lucas and Steven Spielberg showcased nostalgia for the early mid-century with Indiana Jones, the humanitarian Hunter College professor turned adventurer at the centre. Indy outran all kinds of harrows to ensure the ancient artifacts he chased ended up where he thought they belonged: “in a museum.” (Another now famous line is from <em>Black Panther</em> when Erik Killmonger asks a museum curator: “How do you think your ancestors got these?”)</p>
<h2>Guilty pleasure or irredeemable Orientalism?</h2>
<p>Well, the final Indiana Jones movie, <em>Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny</em> is coming out tomorrow, 42 years after the first movie was released. </p>
<p>As the series comes to an end, we explore Indy’s complicated legacy — and his famous line: “it belongs in a museum.” </p>
<p>Will <em>Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny</em> reflect the changes in anthropology departments and <a href="https://theconversation.com/museums-are-returning-indigenous-human-remains-but-progress-on-repatriating-objects-is-slow-67378">the growing movements from Indigenous</a> and Global South communities to return <a href="https://theconversation.com/to-accurately-portray-histories-museums-need-to-do-more-than-reimagine-galleries-189109">stolen objects and ancestors from western museums</a>? Will it consider that <a href="https://theconversation.com/protecting-heritage-is-a-human-right-99501">Eurocentric notions of what holds heritage has finally expanded beyond the artifact</a>?</p>
<p>Will this new movie be full of highly problematic stories? Or a guilty pleasure? Or, can it be both?</p>
<p>Historian Christopher Heaney has spent a lot of time thinking about this. He’s written a book <a href="https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780230112049/cradleofgold">about the “original” Indiana Jones</a> and wrote <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/burying-indiana-jones">“Burying Indiana Jones” for <em>The New Yorker</em></a>. He’s a professor of Latin American History at Penn State University and he joined me on <a href="https://dont-call-me-resilient.simplecast.com/episodes/indiana-joness-last-ride-a-legacy-to-celebrate-or-bury"><em>Don’t Call Me Resilient</em></a> — our last episode of the season, and just in time for summer blockbuster season — to unpack everything Indiana Jones.</p>
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<figcaption><span class="caption">‘How do you think your ancestors got these?’ ‘Black Panther’ offers a response to ‘it belongs in a museum.’</span></figcaption>
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<h2>Read more</h2>
<p><a href="https://mronline.org/2023/05/04/indiana-jones-hollywoods-chief-colonial-pilferer-is-back/">“Indiana Jones, Hollywood’s chief colonial pilferer, is back”</a> (<em>Monthly Review</em>)</p>
<p><em><a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/empires-of-the-dead-9780197542552?cc=ca&lang=en&">Empires of the Dead</a></em> by Christopher Heaney (Oxford University Press)</p>
<p><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/08/how-to-fake-an-alien-mummy/535251/">“The Racism Behind Alien Mummy Hoaxes”</a> (<em>The Atlantic</em>)</p>
<p><a href="https://blackgirlnerds.com/it-does-not-belong-in-a-museum-indiana-jones-colonizer-legacy/">“It does not belong in a museum”</a> (<em>Black Girl Nerds</em>)</p>
<p><a href="https://www.newarab.com/features/can-indiana-jones-overcome-its-orientalist-past">“Can Indiana Jones overcome its Orientalist past?”</a> (<em>The New Arab</em>)</p>
<p><em><a href="https://uncpress.org/book/9780807837153/decolonizing-museums/">Decolonizing Museums</a></em> by Amy Lonetree (UNC Press)</p>
<h2>From The Conversation</h2>
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<a href="https://theconversation.com/to-accurately-portray-histories-museums-need-to-do-more-than-reimagine-galleries-189109">To accurately portray histories, museums need to do more than ‘reimagine’ galleries</a>
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Read more:
<a href="https://theconversation.com/benin-bronzes-what-is-the-significance-of-their-repatriation-to-nigeria-171444">Benin bronzes: What is the significance of their repatriation to Nigeria?</a>
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<a href="https://theconversation.com/belize-shows-how-local-engagement-is-key-in-repatriating-cultural-artifacts-from-abroad-171363">Belize shows how local engagement is key in repatriating cultural artifacts from abroad</a>
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<a href="https://theconversation.com/museums-are-returning-indigenous-human-remains-but-progress-on-repatriating-objects-is-slow-67378">Museums are returning indigenous human remains but progress on repatriating objects is slow</a>
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<h2>Our recs: Kids adventure movies/shows</h2>
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<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUTtJjV852c&ab_channel=ParamountPictures"><em>Dora the Explorer and the Lost City of Gold</em></a></li>
<li><a href="https://animatedviews.com/2019/director-juan-antin-talks-about-pachamama-on-netflix/"><em>Pachamama</em></a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.netflix.com/ca/title/81023618"><em>Finding Ohana</em></a></li>
<li><a href="https://etcanada.com/news/951562/mira-nair-on-the-non-white-america-in-national-treasure-edge-of-history-love-it/"><em>National Treasure: Edge of History</em></a></li>
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<figcaption><span class="caption">Trailer of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (Lucas Films) ‘You’ve taken your chances, made your mistakes, and now, a final triump,’ Phoebe Walter-Bridge says to Jones.</span></figcaption>
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The final Indiana Jones movie is coming out June 30. The fifth in a series over 42 years, many of its ideas are taken from 19th-century orientalist and racist archaeology.Vinita Srivastava, Host + Producer, Don't Call Me ResilientLicensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.tag:theconversation.com,2011:article/2064572023-06-22T17:25:55Z2023-06-22T17:25:55ZListen: Widespread use of Ozempic for weight loss could change how we view fatness<figure><img src="https://images.theconversation.com/files/533549/original/file-20230622-19-53j2i3.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&rect=20%2C958%2C1943%2C1005&q=45&auto=format&w=496&fit=clip" /><figcaption><span class="caption">Ozempic, a semaglutide drug being used for weight loss, could impact how society sees fat people. </span> <span class="attribution"><span class="source">(macrovector/Freepik)</span></span></figcaption></figure><iframe height="200px" width="100%" frameborder="no" scrolling="no" seamless="" src="https://player.simplecast.com/325083d9-aeee-49a3-a16e-2ef5bdce4fad?dark=true"></iframe>
<p>It seems like everywhere you look these days, on TikTok, on the sides of buses, in news headlines, you see Ozempic, the drug originally created as a diabetes treatment, but now being used as a weight-loss method.</p>
<p>Ever since it <a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/9618159/ozempic-diabetes-weight-loss-drug-policy/#:%7E:text=Novo%20Nordisk%20actually,yet%20in%20Canada.">arrived in Canada</a>, it’s been in incredibly high demand. </p>
<p>While Ozempic may just be the next in a long line of get-thin-quick fads, it’s already causing a lot of issues, many of which are especially felt by racialized communities.</p>
<p><a href="https://dont-call-me-resilient.simplecast.com/episodes/widespread-use-of-ozempic-for-weight-loss-could-change-the-way-we-view-fatness">In this episode of <em>Don’t Call Me Resilient</em></a>, we are joined by fat and disability studies professor Fady Shanouda, who examines anti-fat bias in medicine. As the use of Ozempic, a drug for diabetes, slams into the mainstream as a weight-loss method, will the drug’s use impact our concept of fatness? And how does fatness intersect with race and class? How might the craze for Ozempic deepen racial and class disparities?</p>
<h2>Higher risk for diabetes</h2>
<p>In the United States and Canada, Black, Indigenous and South Asian communities are at a higher risk of Type 2 diabetes. A <a href="https://news.umanitoba.ca/rate-of-children-diagnosed-with-type-2-diabetes-rises-over-50-over-last-10-years-mchp-study-finds/">recent report</a> revealed that First Nations children in Manitoba are 25 times more likely to be diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes than other children. </p>
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<img alt="A person with their shirt pulled up and stomach exposed, with an ozempic injection in their right hand" src="https://images.theconversation.com/files/533254/original/file-20230621-21-h6xfhj.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=237&fit=clip" srcset="https://images.theconversation.com/files/533254/original/file-20230621-21-h6xfhj.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=600&h=400&fit=crop&dpr=1 600w, https://images.theconversation.com/files/533254/original/file-20230621-21-h6xfhj.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=30&auto=format&w=600&h=400&fit=crop&dpr=2 1200w, https://images.theconversation.com/files/533254/original/file-20230621-21-h6xfhj.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=15&auto=format&w=600&h=400&fit=crop&dpr=3 1800w, https://images.theconversation.com/files/533254/original/file-20230621-21-h6xfhj.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=754&h=503&fit=crop&dpr=1 754w, https://images.theconversation.com/files/533254/original/file-20230621-21-h6xfhj.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=30&auto=format&w=754&h=503&fit=crop&dpr=2 1508w, https://images.theconversation.com/files/533254/original/file-20230621-21-h6xfhj.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=15&auto=format&w=754&h=503&fit=crop&dpr=3 2262w" sizes="(min-width: 1466px) 754px, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, (min-width: 600px) 600px, 237px">
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<span class="caption">A person prepares an Ozempic injection to use to control blood sugar levels.</span>
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<p>The cost of Ozempic already puts certain communities at a disadvantage. In Canada, Ozempic costs around <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/ozempic-canada-british-columbia-how-it-works-1.6794950">$300 a month</a> and in the U.S., the price is about <a href="https://www.webmd.com/obesity/news/20230503/ozempic-cost-coupons-and-ways-to-save-cash">$1,000 a month</a>. While many rely on health insurance for prescriptions, insurance for the most part does not cover Ozempic for non-diabetic use.</p>
<h2>The racist roots of fighting obesity</h2>
<p>Prof. Shanouda explains how fatness has been negatively associated with Blackness, both historically and currently. These harmful conceptions of fatness influences the treatment of racialized communities in health care. This includes <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03/27/will-the-ozempic-era-change-how-we-think-about-being-fat-and-being-thin">frequent misdiagnosis, under-treatment and frequent fat-shaming by doctors</a>.</p>
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<p>I imagine fat people will be asked all the time now: why they continue to be fat and why they’re not on Ozempic. It is presenting us with a supposed solution for a human variation that has existed for all time. There have always been fat people. There will always be fat people. - Fady Shanouda</p>
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<span class="caption">Sabrina Strings’s book cover for ‘Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia’ published by New York University Press.</span>
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<h2>Resources</h2>
<p><a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-racist-roots-of-fighting-obesity2/">The Racist Roots of Fighting Obesity
</a> (<em>Scientific American</em>)</p>
<p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/14/health/obesity-drugs-wegovy-ozempic.html">New Obesity Drugs Come With a Side Effect of Shaming </a> (<em>The New York Times)</em></p>
<p><a href="https://news.yahoo.com/where-black-people-fit-ozepmic-140728627.html">Where do Black people fit into the Ozempic conversation?</a></p>
<p><a href="https://nyupress.org/9781479886753/fearing-the-black-body/"><em>Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fatphobia</em></a> by Sabrina Strings</p>
<p><a href="https://www.inanna.ca/product/fat-studies-in-canada-remapping-the-field-in-canada/">Fat and Mad Bodies: Under, Out of, and Beyond Control</a> by Fady Shanouda in <em>Fat Studies in Canada: (Re)Mapping the Field</em></p>
<p><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/why-im-nonbinary-but-dont-use-they-them_b_58ac875ee4b05e6b9b192c07">Why I’m Non-Binary But Don’t Use ‘They/Them’</a> by Hunter Ashleigh Shackelford</p>
<p><a href="https://www.press.umich.edu/11700274/queer_nightlife">Jockstraps and Crop Tops: Fat Queer Femmes Dressing for the Night</a> by Caleb Luna in <em>Queer Nightlife</em></p>
<h2>Read more in The Conversation</h2>
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<a href="https://theconversation.com/ozempic-helps-weight-loss-by-making-you-feel-full-but-certain-foods-can-do-the-same-thing-without-the-side-effects-201870">Ozempic helps weight loss by making you feel full. But certain foods can do the same thing – without the side-effects</a>
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<a href="https://theconversation.com/fatblaster-max-has-just-been-banned-why-heres-everything-you-need-to-know-about-diet-supplements-183347">FatBlaster Max has just been banned. Why? Here’s everything you need to know about diet supplements</a>
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<a href="https://theconversation.com/is-it-true-the-faster-you-lose-weight-the-quicker-it-comes-back-heres-what-we-know-about-slow-and-fast-weight-loss-198301">Is it true the faster you lose weight the quicker it comes back? Here's what we know about slow and fast weight loss</a>
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As the use of Ozempic, a drug for diabetes, slams into the mainstream as a weight-loss method, will the drug’s use impact our concept of fatness? And how does fatness intersect with race and class?Vinita Srivastava, Host + Producer, Don't Call Me ResilientBoké Saisi, Associate Producer, Don't Call Me ResilientKikachi Memeh, Assistant Producer/Student Journalist, Don't Call Me ResilientLicensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.tag:theconversation.com,2011:article/2043482023-06-15T16:14:44Z2023-06-15T16:14:44ZListen: Why preserving Indigenous languages is so critical to culture<figure><img src="https://images.theconversation.com/files/531799/original/file-20230613-29-hv2b6r.JPG?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&rect=209%2C35%2C3431%2C2574&q=45&auto=format&w=496&fit=clip" /><figcaption><span class="caption">Language is so important, says prof. Frank Deer. Generational knowledge of culture is passed through stories, language, and symbols. Here two young women wearing ribbon skirts arrive for 2022 National Day for Truth and Reconciliation ceremonies in Calgary, Alta.</span> <span class="attribution"><span class="source">(CP/Jeff McIntosh)</span></span></figcaption></figure><iframe height="200px" width="100%" frameborder="no" scrolling="no" seamless="" src="https://player.simplecast.com/a86fbe0c-20a9-4680-92d9-e1391511ec9f?dark=true"></iframe>
<p><em>As we look ahead to <a href="https://www.statcan.gc.ca/o1/en/plus/1207-national-indigenous-peoples-day">National Indigenous Peoples Day</a>, guest host Prof. Veldon Coburn speaks with Prof. Frank Deer, Canada Research Chair and associate dean of Indigenous Education at the University of Manitoba to tackle the issue of disappearing Indigenous languages and delve into how much more needs to be done to revitalize them and why doing so is critical.</em></p>
<p>Language, if we are not thinking about it, can be just a way to get from place A to B, a way to order lunch or a way to pass an exam. </p>
<p>But language is much more than a way to communicate with words. This is especially true if you have had your language forcibly removed from you, like the thousands of Indigenous children who survived Canada’s colonial assimilation project.</p>
<p>Languages <a href="https://theconversation.com/ancestral-languages-are-essential-to-indigenous-identities-in-canada-117655">hold within them</a> philosophies, worldviews, culture and identity.</p>
<p>Language also has a lot to do with our relationships — how we relate to other people, to our families, to our ancestors and to the natural environment.</p>
<p>These are precisely the aspects of Indigenous life that the Indian Residential School system was designed to destroy. </p>
<p>Last year, the United Nations acknowledged the importance of Indigenous languages by declaring the decade ahead to be the <a href="https://www.un.org/development/desa/indigenouspeoples/indigenous-languages.html">International Decade of Indigenous Languages.</a></p>
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<span class="caption">While translation apps are an an exciting development, they are limited to literal translations. Here Joseph Erb demonstrates a smartphone with the Cherokee language at the Cherokee Nation Immersion School in Tahlequah, Okla.</span>
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<p>But long before the UN declaration, First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples have been pushing to revitalize more than <a href="https://www.uvic.ca/about-uvic/about-the-university/indigenous-focus/indigenous-language-revitalization/index.php">70 Indigenous languages</a> across Canada. </p>
<p>In 2019, the <a href="https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/i-7.85/page-1.html">Indigenous Languages Act</a> was passed by the government of Canada.</p>
<p>Still, progress — and redress — have been slow to come.</p>
<p>In this special episode of <em>Don’t Call Me Resilient</em>, Guest Host, Prof. Veldon Coburn speaks with Prof. Frank Deer, Canada Research Chair and associate dean of Indigenous Education at the University of Manitoba. They tackle the issue of disappearing Indigenous languages and delve into how much more needs to be done to revitalize them and why doing so is critical.</p>
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<span class="caption">Much of the work to preserve Indigenous languages comes from within communities. Here elder Winnfred Beaver scans through a new textbook of the Stoney language, which is facing extinction, at a ceremony in Kananaskis, Alta.</span>
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<p><em>This week’s episode was produced in collaboration with <a href="https://indiginews.com/">IndigiNews</a></em> </p>
<p><em>Thank you to Eden Fineday, publisher at IndigiNews, and Susannah Schmidt, education and arts editor at the Conversation Canada who contributed to this episode</em></p>
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<span class="caption">A protest against Bill 96 in Montreal on May 26, 2022. The law forbids provincial government agencies and municipal bodies from making systematic use of languages other than French. (CP/Graham Hughes)</span>
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<h2>Resources</h2>
<p><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/ratiwenn%C3%B3kwas-kanien-k%C3%A9ha-language-project-1.6748298">As 1st language Kanien'kéha speakers dwindle, communities unite to revitalize the language</a> by Candace Maracle (<em>CBC</em>)</p>
<p><a href="https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/new-indigenous-language-podcast-hopes-to-help-revitalize-preserve-languages/">New Indigenous language podcast hopes to help revitalize, preserve languages</a> by Leanna Sanders (<em>APTN News</em>)</p>
<p><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/bill-96-indigenous-court-case-1.6817437">First Nations organizations going to court over Quebec’s French language reforms</a> by Pierre Saint-Arnaud (<em>CBC</em>)</p>
<p><a href="https://news.umanitoba.ca/mohawk-scholar-believes-experiential-learning-provides-a-deeper-appreciation-for-the-land/">Mohawk scholar believes experiential learning provides a deeper appreciation for the land: Meet Dr. Brian Rice</a><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZ8ekuRBZHc">Dorothy Lazore: Interview by Gerald L. Hill</a> (<em>Indigenous Languages Institute</em>)</p>
<p><a href="https://indiginews.com/weekly-cree-lessons">Aunty Eden’s Weekly Cree Lessons</a> by Eden Fineday (<em>IndigiNews</em>)</p>
<h2>From The Conversation archives</h2>
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<a href="https://theconversation.com/ancestral-languages-are-essential-to-indigenous-identities-in-canada-117655">Ancestral languages are essential to Indigenous identities in Canada</a>
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<a href="https://theconversation.com/to-revitalize-indigenous-communities-the-residential-school-settlement-must-prioritize-language-education-198582">To revitalize Indigenous communities, the Residential School settlement must prioritize language education</a>
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<a href="https://theconversation.com/fishing-with-elders-builds-these-childrens-oji-cree-language-cultural-knowledge-and-writing-138915">Fishing with Elders builds these children’s Oji-Cree language, cultural knowledge and writing</a>
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<a href="https://theconversation.com/national-indigenous-languages-day-keeping-languages-thriving-for-generations-to-come-179528">National Indigenous Languages Day: Keeping languages thriving for generations to come</a>
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The revitalization of Indigenous languages is essential because language reflects philosophies that guide social, political, cultural and ecological relationships.Vinita Srivastava, Host + Producer, Don't Call Me ResilientBoké Saisi, Associate Producer, Don't Call Me ResilientLicensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.tag:theconversation.com,2011:article/2062602023-06-08T15:39:57Z2023-06-08T15:39:57ZListen: Indian PM Modi is expected to get a rockstar welcome in the U.S. How much is the diaspora fuelling him?<figure><img src="https://images.theconversation.com/files/530495/original/file-20230607-25-vz3xkq.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&rect=245%2C204%2C4299%2C2800&q=45&auto=format&w=496&fit=clip" /><figcaption><span class="caption">Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivers a speech during an event in Sydney, Australia on May 23, 2023.</span> <span class="attribution"><span class="source">(AP Photo/Mark Baker)</span></span></figcaption></figure><iframe height="200px" width="100%" frameborder="no" scrolling="no" seamless="" src="https://player.simplecast.com/eefdb202-7c47-4a14-9122-455e228d6c6a?dark=true"></iframe>
<p>On June 22, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/10/us/politics/biden-modi-state-dinner.html?searchResultPosition=4">will make his first official state visit to the United States</a>. And if his visits to Australia last month, to Canada in 2015 and to <a href="https://theintercept.com/2019/09/25/howdy-modi-trump-hindu-nationalism/">Texas in 2019</a> are any indication, he’ll be given a rockstar welcome.</p>
<p>U.S. President Joe Biden has already <a href="https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-president-joe-biden-asked-pm-modi-for-an-autograph-what-report-claimed-101684638531088.html">joked that he wants Modi’s autograph</a> because so many people want to see the Indian PM while he’s in the United States.</p>
<p>Of course, Modi has his critics too, who point to the populist leader’s <a href="https://theconversation.com/new-laws-weaponize-citizenship-in-india-129027">far-right policies</a> and <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/india/us-report-lists-significant-human-rights-abuses-india-2023-03-20/">human rights abuses</a>.</p>
<p>Yet, as the prime minister of the world’s largest democracy, Modi remains one of the world’s most popular leaders - not just at home, but among the tens of millions who make up the global South Asian diaspora. </p>
<p>Last week, perhaps in an acknowledgement of the power of the South Asian diaspora on Indian elections, the former leader of the opposition, <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-65785138">Rahul Gandhi, also visited the United States</a>. </p>
<p>In the latest episode of <em>Don’t Call Me Resilient</em>, we are asking how important is that diaspora? With India having <a href="https://www.financialexpress.com/economy/remittances-to-india-cross-100-billion-in-2022-first-country-to-hit-the-mark/3057688/">one of the highest remittance rates in the world</a>, how much does overseas support contribute to Modi’s popularity and success? And what kind of an impact could a progressive element of that diaspora have on Indian politics? </p>
<p>Anjali Arondekar joins the podcast to sift through all this. She is a professor of feminist studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is also the founding co-director of the university’s Center for South Asian Studies which hosted a discussion last week with Rajiv Gandhi.</p>
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<figcaption><span class="caption">Anjali Arondekar was in Conversation with Rahul Gandhi last week at the Center for South Asian Studies, UCSC.</span></figcaption>
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<h2>Resources</h2>
<p><a href="https://thewire.in/diplomacy/narendra-modis-first-state-visit-to-the-us-has-both-national-and-global-implications">Narendra Modi’s First State Visit to the US Has Both National and Global Implications</a> (<em>The Wire</em>)</p>
<p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0dkb144">The Modi Question (<em>BBC</em>)
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<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/13/world/asia/india-modi-elections.html?searchResultPosition=2">A Defeat for Modi’s Party in South India Heartens His Rivals
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<p><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/8/24/indian-politician-boasts-about-getting-muslims-killed-on-camera">Indian politician boasts about getting Muslims killed – on camera
</a> (<em>Al Jazeera</em>)</p>
<p><a href="https://theintercept.com/2019/09/25/howdy-modi-trump-hindu-nationalism/">The Network of Hindu Nationalists Behind Modi’s Diaspora Diplomacy in the U.S.
</a> (<em>The Intercept</em>)</p>
<h2>From the archives - in The Conversation</h2>
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<a href="https://theconversation.com/indias-new-citizenship-act-legalizes-a-hindu-nation-129024">India's new citizenship act legalizes a Hindu nation</a>
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<a href="https://theconversation.com/trump-and-modi-birds-of-the-same-feather-but-with-different-world-views-69090">Trump and Modi: birds of the same feather, but with different world views</a>
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<a href="https://theconversation.com/just-who-is-narendra-modi-indias-man-of-the-moment-26898">Just who is Narendra Modi, India's man of the moment?</a>
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<a href="https://theconversation.com/how-the-conservative-right-hijacks-religion-109218">How the conservative right hijacks religion</a>
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<a href="https://theconversation.com/narendra-modi-has-won-the-largest-election-in-the-world-what-will-this-mean-for-india-116598">Narendra Modi has won the largest election in the world. What will this mean for India?</a>
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<p><em>Thank you to Sanjay Ruparelia, Jarislowsky Democracy Chair at TMU and Kalpana Jain, Senior Religion Editor at TCUS who contributed to this episode.</em></p><img src="https://counter.theconversation.com/content/206260/count.gif" alt="The Conversation" width="1" height="1" />
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and opposition politicians are courting the diaspora in the run-up to next year’s elections in India. What role does the diaspora play in Indian politics?Vinita Srivastava, Host + Producer, Don't Call Me ResilientLicensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.tag:theconversation.com,2011:article/2062592023-06-01T15:37:24Z2023-06-01T15:37:24ZListen: Trans scholar and activist explains why trans rights are under attack<iframe height="200px" width="100%" frameborder="no" scrolling="no" seamless="" src="https://player.simplecast.com/e2ecabe1-cf01-433c-bd7e-7aac7f1d241a?dark=true"></iframe>
<p>This year we’ve seen an aggressive push to implement anti-trans legislation across the United States. There are currently more than <a href="https://translegislation.com/">400 active anti-trans</a> bills across the country. </p>
<p>Some of the legislation <a href="https://time.com/6265755/gender-affirm-care-bans-u-s/">denies gender-affirming care to youth</a> – and criminalizes those health-care providers that attempt to do so. Other bills <a href="https://apnews.com/article/transgender-nonbinary-hormone-puberty-missouri-lawmakers-5a8922430ffab9e43cf9b7ce254bff9f#:%7E:text=Charlie%20Riedel%2C%20File">block trans students from participating in sports</a> and still others have banned books with trans content. </p>
<p>These bills have at least two things in common. They all aim to make being trans harder in an already hostile society and they are being spearheaded by the far-right. </p>
<p>Where does anti-trans sentiment come from? </p>
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<span class="caption">Black Lives Matter activists organize a sit-in at Yonge Street and College Street during the Trans Pride March, in Toronto, 2016. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Eduardo Lima)</span>
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<p>The <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/society/transphobia-white-supremacy/">enforcement of a gender binary</a> likely has much to do with the preservation of white power. And, <a href="https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2022/5/20/through-line-critical-race-dont-say-gay-great-replacement">violence</a> against trans people continues as a result. </p>
<h2>Is Canada better?</h2>
<p>What do things look like in Canada? Are we a safe haven or are we following some of the same trends?</p>
<p>Recently, a <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/us-transgender-asylum-petition-1.6779692">petition</a> signed by <a href="https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-4268">over 160,000 people</a> asked the Canadian government to extend asylum to trans and gender non-conforming people from nations in the West, previously considered safe. </p>
<p>To get a better understanding of trans histories in Canada, <a href="https://dont-call-me-resilient.simplecast.com/episodes/listen-to-an-american-canadian-trans-scholar-and-activist-explain-why-trans-rights-are-under-attack">we are joined by Syrus Marcus Ware</a>, an artist, activist and assistant professor at the School of the Arts at McMaster University. He is a co-curator of Blockorama/Blackness Yes! and a co-editor of <a href="https://uofrpress.ca/Books/U/Until-We-Are-Free"><em>Until We Are Free: Reflections on Black Lives Matter in Canada</em></a>.</p>
<p>We discuss the history of anti-trans and queer actions in Canada. We also speak about backlash and ways to move forward.</p>
<h2>Listen and Follow</h2>
<p>You can listen to or follow <em><a href="https://dont-call-me-resilient.simplecast.com/episodes/listen-to-an-american-canadian-trans-scholar-and-activist-explain-why-trans-rights-are-under-attack">Don’t Call Me Resilient</a></em> on <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/dont-call-me-resilient/id1549798876">Apple Podcasts</a>, <a href="https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjYXN0LmNvbS9qZFg0Ql9DOA">Google Podcasts</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/37tK4zmjWvq2Sh6jLIpzp7">Spotify</a> or <a href="https://dont-call-me-resilient.simplecast.com">wherever you listen to your favourite podcasts</a>. </p>
<p><a href="mailto:DCMR@theconversation.com">We’d love to hear from you</a>, including any ideas for future episodes. Join The Conversation on <a href="https://twitter.com/ConversationCA">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheConversationCanada">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/theconversationdotcom/">Instagram</a> and <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@theconversation">TikTok</a> and use #DontCallMeResilient.</p>
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<img alt="A person with a rainbow on their shirt holds up a hand with a pointed finger and a sign in the other hand. They appear to be yelling." src="https://images.theconversation.com/files/529465/original/file-20230531-24-q99it2.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=754&fit=clip" srcset="https://images.theconversation.com/files/529465/original/file-20230531-24-q99it2.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=600&h=400&fit=crop&dpr=1 600w, https://images.theconversation.com/files/529465/original/file-20230531-24-q99it2.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=30&auto=format&w=600&h=400&fit=crop&dpr=2 1200w, https://images.theconversation.com/files/529465/original/file-20230531-24-q99it2.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=15&auto=format&w=600&h=400&fit=crop&dpr=3 1800w, https://images.theconversation.com/files/529465/original/file-20230531-24-q99it2.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=754&h=503&fit=crop&dpr=1 754w, https://images.theconversation.com/files/529465/original/file-20230531-24-q99it2.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=30&auto=format&w=754&h=503&fit=crop&dpr=2 1508w, https://images.theconversation.com/files/529465/original/file-20230531-24-q99it2.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=15&auto=format&w=754&h=503&fit=crop&dpr=3 2262w" sizes="(min-width: 1466px) 754px, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, (min-width: 600px) 600px, 237px">
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<span class="caption">Brenna Thompson protests this month against an abortion ban and restrictions on gender-affirming care for children in Lincoln, Neb.</span>
<span class="attribution"><span class="source">Justin Wan/Lincoln Journal Star via AP/KOLN-TV OUT</span></span>
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<h2>Resources</h2>
<p><a href="https://doi.org/10.1215/23289252-3814961">All Power to All People? Black LGBTTI2QQ Activism, Remembrance, and Archiving in Toronto</a> (<em>Transgender Studies Quarterly</em>) by Syrus Marcus Ware </p>
<p><a href="https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2023/05/30/pride-flag-wont-fly-at-york-catholic-schools-after-board-votes-against-the-motion.html">‘A travesty’: Outrage swells over York Catholic board’s rejection of Pride flag</a> (<em>Toronto Star</em>) </p>
<p><a href="https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2022/10/05/supreme-court-cant-ignore-equality-rights-claims-of-refugees.html">Supreme Court can’t ignore equality rights claims of refugees</a> (<em>Toronto Star</em>) </p>
<p><a href="https://xtramagazine.com/power/toronto-bathhouse-raids-40-years-194590">Everything you need to know about the Toronto bathhouse raids</a> (<em>Xtra</em>) </p>
<p><a href="https://xtramagazine.com/power/what-the-national-inquiry-into-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women-and-girls-means-for-two-spirit-canadians-158992">What the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls means for Two-Spirit people</a> (<em>Xtra</em>) </p>
<p><a href="https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2009-015">Settler Homonationalism: Theorizing Settler Colonialism within Queer Modernities</a> (<em>Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies</em>) by Scott Lauria Morgensen </p>
<p><a href="https://blockorama.ca/">Blockorama/Blackness Yes!</a></p>
<h2>From the archives - in The Conversation</h2>
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Read more:
<a href="https://theconversation.com/transgender-hate-crimes-are-on-the-rise-even-in-canada-121541">Transgender hate crimes are on the rise even in Canada</a>
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Read more:
<a href="https://theconversation.com/cuts-to-telehealth-in-ontario-mean-fewer-trans-and-non-binary-people-will-have-access-to-life-saving-health-care-198502">Cuts to telehealth in Ontario mean fewer trans and non-binary people will have access to life-saving health care</a>
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Read more:
<a href="https://theconversation.com/i-went-to-cpac-to-take-maga-supporters-pulse-china-and-transgender-people-are-among-the-top-demons-they-say-are-ruining-the-country-201442">I went to CPAC to take MAGA supporters' pulse – China and transgender people are among the top 'demons' they say are ruining the country</a>
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Read more:
<a href="https://theconversation.com/right-to-party-20-years-of-black-queer-love-and-resilience-80040">Right to party: 20 years of Black Queer love and resilience</a>
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<img src="https://counter.theconversation.com/content/206259/count.gif" alt="The Conversation" width="1" height="1" />
This year, there are more than 400 active anti-trans bills across the U.S. What do things look like in Canada? Are we a safe haven or are we following those same trends?Vinita Srivastava, Host + Producer, Don't Call Me ResilientBoké Saisi, Associate Producer, Don't Call Me ResilientLicensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.tag:theconversation.com,2011:article/2047212023-05-25T15:10:22Z2023-05-25T15:10:22ZListen: A 5th generation New Yorker traces her family history and finds the roots of anti-Asian violence – and Asian resistance<iframe height="200px" width="100%" frameborder="no" scrolling="no" seamless="" src="https://player.simplecast.com/de138b12-ba9e-4e14-9a19-46cdefce0299?dark=true"></iframe>
<p>In this episode of <a href="https://dont-call-me-resilient.simplecast.com/episodes/a-5th-generation-new-yorker-reveals-tales-of-asian-resistance-since-the-19th-century"><em>Don’t Call Me Resilient</em></a>, author and CUNY professor Ava Chin, a 5th generation Chinese New Yorker, discusses her new book, <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/563929/mott-street-by-ava-chin/"><em>Mott Street: A Chinese American Family’s Story of Exclusion and Homecoming</em></a>. </p>
<p>The book artfully explores themes of exclusion as it relates to all Chinese Americans, plus personally for Chin with her father, a “crown prince” of Chinatown that she didn’t meet until adulthood. Chin reveals personal family stories against the backdrop of the U.S. eugenics movement and draws a connecting line between <a href="http://aapidata.com/blog/year-after-atlanta/">the current rise in violence against Asians in North America</a> and anti-immigration laws more than 100 years old. </p>
<p>Chin also showcases the resilience, love lives and dreams of Chinese immigrants as well as their resistance to the attitudes and laws of the era.</p>
<p>In our conversation, Chin said: </p>
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<p>This story goes back to a period in time, in the era of reconstruction, when the young country was asking itself, who is an American and who is not…And the decisions that they made back then in the 19th century set us on a course as a nation towards viewing all Asians as being foreign and suspicious. And so the great aim of this book is to shed light on Asian American stories and place Asian Americans into our proper space into the larger American story.</p>
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<h2>Listen and Follow</h2>
<p>You can listen to or follow <em>Don’t Call Me Resilient</em> on <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/dont-call-me-resilient/id1549798876">Apple Podcasts</a>, <a href="https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjYXN0LmNvbS9qZFg0Ql9DOA">Google Podcasts</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/37tK4zmjWvq2Sh6jLIpzp7">Spotify</a> or <a href="https://dont-call-me-resilient.simplecast.com">wherever you listen to your favourite podcasts</a>. </p>
<p><a href="mailto:DCMR@theconversation.com">We’d love to hear from you</a>, including any ideas for future episodes. Join The Conversation on <a href="https://twitter.com/ConversationCA">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheConversationCanada">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/theconversationdotcom/">Instagram</a> and <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@theconversation">TikTok</a> and use #DontCallMeResilient.</p>
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<img alt="(Alfred A. Hart Photographs, 1862-1869, Stanford University Libraries)" src="https://images.theconversation.com/files/528034/original/file-20230524-17-dehexd.jpeg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=754&fit=clip" srcset="https://images.theconversation.com/files/528034/original/file-20230524-17-dehexd.jpeg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=600&h=300&fit=crop&dpr=1 600w, https://images.theconversation.com/files/528034/original/file-20230524-17-dehexd.jpeg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=30&auto=format&w=600&h=300&fit=crop&dpr=2 1200w, https://images.theconversation.com/files/528034/original/file-20230524-17-dehexd.jpeg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=15&auto=format&w=600&h=300&fit=crop&dpr=3 1800w, https://images.theconversation.com/files/528034/original/file-20230524-17-dehexd.jpeg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=754&h=377&fit=crop&dpr=1 754w, https://images.theconversation.com/files/528034/original/file-20230524-17-dehexd.jpeg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=30&auto=format&w=754&h=377&fit=crop&dpr=2 1508w, https://images.theconversation.com/files/528034/original/file-20230524-17-dehexd.jpeg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=15&auto=format&w=754&h=377&fit=crop&dpr=3 2262w" sizes="(min-width: 1466px) 754px, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, (min-width: 600px) 600px, 237px">
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<span class="caption">Chinese railroad workers were often left off the official story. Here, they construct a section of the First Transcontinental Railroad on the Humboldt Plains of Nevada. Archival research by Gordon Chang.</span>
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<h2>Resources</h2>
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<span class="caption">Ava Chin’s ‘Mott Street: A Chinese American Family’s Story of Exclusion and Homecoming.’</span>
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<p><a href="https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674260351"><em>The Chinese Must Go: Violence, exclusion and the making of the Alien in America</em></a> by Beth Lew-Williams </p>
<p><a href="https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=29278"><em>The Chinese and the Iron Road: Building the Transcontinental Railroad</em></a> by Gordon Chang and Shelley Fisher Fishkin</p>
<p><a href="https://www.brookings.edu/blog/how-we-rise/2022/05/18/confronting-the-invisibility-of-anti-asian-racism/">Confronting the invisibility of anti-Asian racism</a> by Jennifer Lee</p>
<p><a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssaho.2021.100232">Anti-Chinese stigma in the Greater Toronto Area during COVID-19: Aiming the spotlight towards community capacity</a> - <em>Social Sciences & Humanities Open</em> </p>
<p><a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/society/asian-american-anti-racism/"><em>“Multiple Things Can Be True”: Understanding the Roots of Anti-Asian Violence</em></a> - <em>The Nation</em></p>
<h2>From the archives, in The Conversation</h2>
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Read more:
<a href="https://theconversation.com/the-model-minority-myth-hides-the-racist-and-sexist-violence-experienced-by-asian-women-157667">The model minority myth hides the racist and sexist violence experienced by Asian women</a>
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Read more:
<a href="https://theconversation.com/year-of-the-tiger-an-opportunity-for-bold-changes-in-combatting-anti-asian-racism-174385">Year of the Tiger: An opportunity for bold changes in combatting anti-Asian racism</a>
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Author Ava Chin, a 5th generation New Yorker, traces the roots of today’s high rates of anti-Asian violence back to 19th century U.S. labour and immigration laws.Vinita Srivastava, Host + Producer, Don't Call Me ResilientLicensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.tag:theconversation.com,2011:article/2057202023-05-18T14:37:02Z2023-05-18T14:37:02ZDecolonize your garden: This long weekend, dig into the complicated roots of gardening — Listen<p>The May long weekend is the unofficial start of summer. And for those of you with home gardens or access to community space, this is the weekend to dust off your gardening tools and visit the garden centre for the growing season ahead.</p>
<p>As we approach the start of gardening season, it’s good time to ask some questions about its origins.</p>
<p>Whether you plan to get marigolds, plant a vegetable garden or create a pollinator patch — all gardens have complicated roots. </p>
<p>In fact, the practice of gardening is <a href="https://www.architectural-review.com/essays/the-coloniality-of-planting">deeply tied to colonialism</a> — from the <a href="https://www.noemamag.com/the-long-shadow-of-colonial-science">formation of botany as a science</a>, to the <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-022-01865-1">spread of seeds, species and knowledge.</a> </p>
<iframe height="200px" width="100%" frameborder="no" scrolling="no" seamless="" src="https://player.simplecast.com/92c92d2a-9628-4da6-9b3f-8bf5ec67d7cf?dark=true"></iframe>
<p><em><a href="https://dont-call-me-resilient.simplecast.com/episodes/decolonize-your-garden-this-long-weekend-visit-the-complicated-roots-of-gardening-listen">In this episode of Don’t Call Me Resilient</a>, we explore the complicated roots of the garden, including who gets to garden. We also discuss practical tips about what to plant with an eye to Indigenous knowledge. We speak with researcher Jacqueline L. Scott and also chat with community activist, Carolynne Crawley, who leads workshops that integrate Indigenous teachings into practice.</em></p>
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<span class="caption">Watercolor illustration of Tulipa sylvestris in I Cinque libri di piante.</span>
<span class="attribution"><span class="source">Pietro Antonio Michiel, Venice ca. 1550–1576, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana.</span></span>
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<h2>Coveted tulips</h2>
<p>Some of the most recognizable plants today, such as <a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/there-never-was-real-tulip-fever-180964915/">tulips</a>, are the result of early colonial conquests. Originally found growing wild in the valleys where current China and Tibet meet Afghanistan and Russia, tulips were first cultivated in Istanbul as early as 1055. </p>
<p>Later, after they were hybridized and commodified by the Dutch, they became highly coveted status symbols because of their gorgeous, but fleeting, blooms. </p>
<p>Exploratory botanical voyages by colonial European powers were integral to the expansion of empire. These trips fueled the big business of collecting global plant samples and also led to the emergence of botany as a scientific discipline. </p>
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<span class="caption">227 figures of plant anatomical segments with descriptive text. Botany. Plant anatomy. Plant morphology. Plants. Roots (Botany). Roots (Botany) – Morphology. Roots (Botany) – Anatomy. Rootstocks. Tubers. Leaves. Leaves – Morphology. Flowers – Morphology. Flowers. Fruit – Morphology. Bulbs (Plant anatomy). Plants – Variation. Botany – France. Stems (Botany).</span>
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<h2>Botanical gardens served as labs</h2>
<p>Botanical gardens played a key role, serving as the laboratories where plant specimens were organized, ordered and named. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsisyn.2021.100196">“Scientific objectivity”</a> asserted a Eurocentric point of view, disrupting and displacing Indigenous Knowledge and ecological practices. </p>
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<img alt="" src="https://images.theconversation.com/files/526842/original/file-20230517-12607-80m0ex.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=754&fit=clip" srcset="https://images.theconversation.com/files/526842/original/file-20230517-12607-80m0ex.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=600&h=383&fit=crop&dpr=1 600w, https://images.theconversation.com/files/526842/original/file-20230517-12607-80m0ex.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=30&auto=format&w=600&h=383&fit=crop&dpr=2 1200w, https://images.theconversation.com/files/526842/original/file-20230517-12607-80m0ex.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=15&auto=format&w=600&h=383&fit=crop&dpr=3 1800w, https://images.theconversation.com/files/526842/original/file-20230517-12607-80m0ex.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=754&h=481&fit=crop&dpr=1 754w, https://images.theconversation.com/files/526842/original/file-20230517-12607-80m0ex.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=30&auto=format&w=754&h=481&fit=crop&dpr=2 1508w, https://images.theconversation.com/files/526842/original/file-20230517-12607-80m0ex.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=15&auto=format&w=754&h=481&fit=crop&dpr=3 2262w" sizes="(min-width: 1466px) 754px, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, (min-width: 600px) 600px, 237px">
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<span class="caption">A 1913 illustrated depiction of African American people picking cotton.</span>
<span class="attribution"><a class="source" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CottonpickHoustonWhere17.png">Jerome H. Farbar: 'Houston: Where Seventeen Railroads Meet the Sea.' Page 31/40, 'Cotton Pickers'</a>, <a class="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC BY</a></span>
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<p>The movement and transfer of plants around the world went hand in hand with the transportation of people to provide a labour force, through slavery and indentured servitude. </p>
<p>The plantation system cleared out local ecosystems and replaced traditional farming methods with growing cash crops — like <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/sugar-slave-trade-slavery.html">sugar-cane</a>, <a href="https://thecorrespondent.com/222/the-history-of-tea-is-darker-than-a-builders-brew">tea</a> and <a href="https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/8/16/20806069/slavery-economy-capitalism-violence-cotton-edward-baptist">cotton.</a> These were products meant for European curiosities, markets and profit and not for the local populations.</p>
<h2>Plant and racial hierarchies</h2>
<p>This colonial system of <a href="https://open.oregonstate.education/cultivatedplants/chapter/colonialagriculture/">organizing agriculture</a> laid the groundwork for <a href="https://www.sapiens.org/biology/race-scientific-taxonomy/">categorizing people</a> in a similar way, establishing a social hierarchy which dehumanized non-Europeans, helping justify slavery and Indigenous genocide, and eventually leading to racial categories.</p>
<p>This history has shaped our current relationships to the land, and our gardens. It also informs beliefs about land ownership and access; who has a right to enjoy the land, versus who is expected to be working on it. Who has the literal and figurative space and freedom to garden?</p>
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<img alt="" src="https://images.theconversation.com/files/526848/original/file-20230517-13420-luw1sy.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=754&fit=clip" srcset="https://images.theconversation.com/files/526848/original/file-20230517-13420-luw1sy.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=600&h=435&fit=crop&dpr=1 600w, https://images.theconversation.com/files/526848/original/file-20230517-13420-luw1sy.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=30&auto=format&w=600&h=435&fit=crop&dpr=2 1200w, https://images.theconversation.com/files/526848/original/file-20230517-13420-luw1sy.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=15&auto=format&w=600&h=435&fit=crop&dpr=3 1800w, https://images.theconversation.com/files/526848/original/file-20230517-13420-luw1sy.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=754&h=547&fit=crop&dpr=1 754w, https://images.theconversation.com/files/526848/original/file-20230517-13420-luw1sy.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=30&auto=format&w=754&h=547&fit=crop&dpr=2 1508w, https://images.theconversation.com/files/526848/original/file-20230517-13420-luw1sy.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=15&auto=format&w=754&h=547&fit=crop&dpr=3 2262w" sizes="(min-width: 1466px) 754px, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, (min-width: 600px) 600px, 237px">
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<span class="caption">On the left is a lawn (Stephen Cobb/Unsplash) and on the right is a native plant garden in Streeterville, Chicago (Shutterstock).</span>
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<h2>Shifting attitudes</h2>
<p>But the soil is shifting. There is a growing shift away from <a href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-is-it-time-to-decolonize-your-lawn/">the colonial status symbol of the lawn</a> and <a href="https://chatelaine.com/living/quiet-quitting-garden/">manicured gardens</a>, in favour of <a href="https://broadview.org/lorraine-johnson-interview/">pollinator-friendly</a> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/13/realestate/why-some-of-your-annuals-should-be-native-plants.html">native plants</a>. </p>
<p>There is also a growing understanding that <a href="https://broadview.org/grandfather-teachings-gardening/">centuries-old Indigenous land-based knowledge</a> and practices — like <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/21/wildfire-prescribed-burns-california-native-americans">controlled burns</a> — can help manage wildfires, and foster a more resilient landscape.</p>
<p>With concerns about our climate crisis growing, one of the possible avenues for <a href="https://theconversation.com/how-urban-gardens-can-boost-biodiversity-and-make-cities-more-sustainable-162810">creating more sustainable cities may very well lie in our gardens</a>.</p>
<p>Could we have an impact simply by thinking a little differently about the seeds we sow and the “weeds” we pull?</p>
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<span class="caption">Monarch butterfly on purple coneflowers.</span>
<span class="attribution"><span class="source">Jeffrey Hamilton/Unsplash</span></span>
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<h2>Resources</h2>
<p><a href="https://www.nationalobserver.com/2021/01/29/news/tiffany-traverse-rare-indigenous-seed-project">Tiffany Traverse on seeds and their endless power to give, heal and grow</a> - <em>Canada’s National Observer</em></p>
<p><a href="https://www.architectural-review.com/essays/the-coloniality-of-planting">The coloniality of planting: legacies of racism and slavery in the practice of botany</a> - <em>The Architectural Review</em></p>
<p><a href="https://www.noemamag.com/the-long-shadow-of-colonial-science/">The Long Shadow Of Colonial Science</a> - <em>Noema Magazine</em></p>
<p><a href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-is-it-time-to-decolonize-your-lawn/">Is it time to decolonize your lawn?</a> - <em>Globe and Mail</em></p>
<p><a href="https://turtleprotectors.com">Turtle Protectors</a> in Toronto’s High Park</p>
<p><a href="https://gardeningoutloud.substack.com/p/guest-episode-1-spring-joy-with-ateqah">Spring joy with Ateqah Khaki</a> - <em>Gardening Out Loud</em></p>
<h2>From the archives - in The Conversation</h2>
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Read more:
<a href="https://theconversation.com/how-the-colonial-past-of-botanical-gardens-can-be-put-to-good-use-104786">How the colonial past of botanical gardens can be put to good use</a>
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<a href="https://theconversation.com/director-of-science-at-kew-its-time-to-decolonise-botanical-collections-141070">Director of science at Kew: it's time to decolonise botanical collections</a>
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<a href="https://theconversation.com/a-shortage-of-native-seeds-is-slowing-land-restoration-across-the-us-which-is-crucial-for-tackling-climate-change-and-extinctions-199049">A shortage of native seeds is slowing land restoration across the US, which is crucial for tackling climate change and extinctions</a>
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<img alt="" src="https://images.theconversation.com/files/526355/original/file-20230515-24343-lszaxe.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=754&fit=clip" srcset="https://images.theconversation.com/files/526355/original/file-20230515-24343-lszaxe.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=600&h=400&fit=crop&dpr=1 600w, https://images.theconversation.com/files/526355/original/file-20230515-24343-lszaxe.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=30&auto=format&w=600&h=400&fit=crop&dpr=2 1200w, https://images.theconversation.com/files/526355/original/file-20230515-24343-lszaxe.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=15&auto=format&w=600&h=400&fit=crop&dpr=3 1800w, https://images.theconversation.com/files/526355/original/file-20230515-24343-lszaxe.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=754&h=503&fit=crop&dpr=1 754w, https://images.theconversation.com/files/526355/original/file-20230515-24343-lszaxe.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=30&auto=format&w=754&h=503&fit=crop&dpr=2 1508w, https://images.theconversation.com/files/526355/original/file-20230515-24343-lszaxe.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=15&auto=format&w=754&h=503&fit=crop&dpr=3 2262w" sizes="(min-width: 1466px) 754px, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, (min-width: 600px) 600px, 237px">
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<span class="caption">An aerial view of small green seedlings in pots.</span>
<span class="attribution"><span class="source">Markus Spiske PG/Unsplash</span></span>
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As we approach the start of gardening season, it’s a good time to ask some questions about what to plant and who gets to plant.Vinita Srivastava, Host + Producer, Don't Call Me ResilientAteqah Khaki, Associate Producer, Don't Call Me ResilientLicensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.tag:theconversation.com,2011:article/2047992023-05-04T15:52:02Z2023-05-04T15:52:02ZWill a UN resolution to commemorate the expulsion of Palestinians from their lands change the narrative? — Listen<figure><img src="https://images.theconversation.com/files/523711/original/file-20230502-403-b7c5p.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&rect=55%2C38%2C943%2C606&q=45&auto=format&w=496&fit=clip" /><figcaption><span class="caption">It's been 75 years since Palestinians were first expelled from their homeland. Here, people from Tantura as they were relocated to Jordan, June 1948. </span> <span class="attribution"><span class="source">(Benno Rothenberg/Meitar Collection/National Library of Israel/The Pritzker Family National Photography Collection)</span>, <a class="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC BY</a></span></figcaption></figure><p>The UN’s recent <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/us-news/2022/11/30/un-adopts-landmark-resolution-marking-palestinian-nakba-day/#:%7E:text=The%20UN%20General%20Assembly%20on,following%20the%20foundation%20of%20Israel">resolution to recognize Nakba Day on May 15</a>, to mark the anniversary of the expulsion of Palestinians from their homes in 1948, helps to acknowledge past traumas but does the resolution have other implications? </p>
<p>On this week’s episode of <em>Don’t Call Me Resilient</em>, we meet up with M. Muhannad Ayyash, professor of sociology at Mount Royal University in Calgary to help unpack some of the meanings behind this resolution. </p>
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<h2>Palestinians were driven off their land</h2>
<p>Seventy-five years ago, starting on May 15, <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2017/5/23/the-nakba-did-not-start-or-end-in-1948">Palestinians were driven off their land</a>. This event is what Palestinians have come to refer to as the Nakba.</p>
<p>In Arabic, Nakba means catastrophe.</p>
<p>At that time, approximately <a href="https://www.cfr.org/global-conflict-tracker/conflict/israeli-palestinian-conflict">750,000 people were violently forced from their homes</a>. In the decades after, tens of thousands of others were murdered and displaced. And <a href="https://www.unrwa.org/palestine-refugees">millions of Palestinians</a> became refugees.</p>
<p>Recently, the United Nations passed a resolution to acknowledge that day of catastrophe. </p>
<p>The Palestinian UN envoy, Riyad Mansour, said the significance of the UN resolution lies in the General Assembly’s acknowledgement of the historical <a href="https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/israel-decries-shameful-extreme-un-resolution-commemorating-palestinian-nakba/">“injustice that befell the Palestinian people.”</a></p>
<p>Why has the UN resolved to acknowledge this history now? Could it be tied to the recent surge in violence in the region?</p>
<p>Does the recognition impact anything? Does it change how the conflict is viewed by western powers, like Canada and the United States who actually voted against the UN resolution?</p>
<p><a href="https://dont-call-me-resilient.simplecast.com/episodes/will-a-un-resolution-to-commemorate-the-expulsion-of-palestinians-from-their-lands-change-the-narrative">Join us to hear more</a>. </p>
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<p>“Nobody is going anywhere. So we need to imagine social and political life on this land, beyond, the Euro American, colonial, ideology. We need to rethink fundamental questions about our relationship to the land and our relationship to each other. There are no shortage of alternatives.” - M. Muhannad Ayyash, Professor, Mount Royal University</p>
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<span class="caption">Palestinian women watch Israeli military vehicles, including a bulldozer, in Aqbat Jabr camp, southwest of Jericho on Feb. 4, 2023, during a search for Palestinian suspects after a shooting attack at a restaurant in a nearby settlement.</span>
<span class="attribution"><span class="source">(AP Photo/ Majdi Mohammed)</span></span>
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<h2>Read more in The Conversation</h2>
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<a href="https://theconversation.com/tantura-new-documentary-sparks-debate-about-israel-and-the-palestinian-nakba-189101">Tantura: New documentary sparks debate about Israel and the Palestinian Nakba</a>
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<a href="https://theconversation.com/lessons-for-the-future-from-jerusalems-palestinian-past-95768">Lessons for the future from Jerusalem’s Palestinian past</a>
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<a href="https://theconversation.com/nakba-day-in-palestine-past-catastrophe-future-conflict-26723">Nakba day in Palestine – past catastrophe, future conflict?</a>
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<img alt="" src="https://images.theconversation.com/files/523720/original/file-20230502-26-7c2otd.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=754&fit=clip" srcset="https://images.theconversation.com/files/523720/original/file-20230502-26-7c2otd.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=600&h=365&fit=crop&dpr=1 600w, https://images.theconversation.com/files/523720/original/file-20230502-26-7c2otd.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=30&auto=format&w=600&h=365&fit=crop&dpr=2 1200w, https://images.theconversation.com/files/523720/original/file-20230502-26-7c2otd.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=15&auto=format&w=600&h=365&fit=crop&dpr=3 1800w, https://images.theconversation.com/files/523720/original/file-20230502-26-7c2otd.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=754&h=459&fit=crop&dpr=1 754w, https://images.theconversation.com/files/523720/original/file-20230502-26-7c2otd.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=30&auto=format&w=754&h=459&fit=crop&dpr=2 1508w, https://images.theconversation.com/files/523720/original/file-20230502-26-7c2otd.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=15&auto=format&w=754&h=459&fit=crop&dpr=3 2262w" sizes="(min-width: 1466px) 754px, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, (min-width: 600px) 600px, 237px">
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<span class="caption">Palestinian children play next to a painted wall depicting the keys to houses left by Palestinians in 1948, with Arabic writing that reads, ‘return is a right,’ in the West Bank, May 13, 2012.</span>
<span class="attribution"><span class="source">(AP Photo/Mohammed Ballas)</span></span>
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<span class="caption">Uniformed and armed Israeli soldiers stand at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on June 15, 2018.</span>
<span class="attribution"><a class="source" href="https://unsplash.com/photos/Y1BdWi52y14">(Unsplash/Toa Heftiba)</a></span>
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<p>“<a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/8/6/the-settler-colonial-siege-of-the-gaza">When will the settler colonial siege of the Gaza Strip end?</a>” by M. Muhannad Ayyash (<em>Al-Jazeera</em>) </p>
<p>“<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/05/16/palestinians-have-no-choice-but-to-continue-the-struggle/">Palestinians have no choice but to continue the struggle</a>” by Noura Erakat (<em>The Washington Post</em>)</p>
<p>“<a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/9/the-deir-yassin-massacre-why-it-still-matters-75-years-later">The Deir Yassin massacre: Why it still matters 75 years later</a>” (<em>Al-Jazeera</em>)</p>
<p>“<a href="https://www.ubcpress.ca/from-turtle-island-to-gaza"><em>From Turtle Island to Gaza</em></a>” by David A. Groulx (Athabasca University Press)</p>
<p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/may/18/a-jewish-case-for-palestinian-refugee-return">“A Jewish Case for Palestinian Refugee Return”</a> by Peter Beinart (<em>The Guardian</em>)</p>
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<p>Go <a href="https://dont-call-me-resilient.simplecast.com/episodes/will-a-un-resolution-to-commemorate-the-expulsion-of-palestinians-from-their-lands-change-the-narrative/transcript">here</a> for the unedited transcript.</p><img src="https://counter.theconversation.com/content/204799/count.gif" alt="The Conversation" width="1" height="1" />
The UN’s resolution to recognize Nakba Day on May 15, to mark the expulsion of Palestinians from their homes in 1948, helps to acknowledge past traumas but does the resolution have other implications?Vinita Srivastava, Host + Producer, Don't Call Me ResilientBoké Saisi, Associate Producer, Don't Call Me ResilientLicensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.tag:theconversation.com,2011:article/2040002023-04-27T16:54:41Z2023-04-27T16:54:41ZWhat the Crown Jewels tell us about exploitation and the quest for reparations — Podcast<p>Although King Charles will have a low-key ceremony on his coronation day this May 6, the Crown Jewels will still figure prominently. An exploration of the story of the jewels tells a tale of brutal exploitation, rape and the original looting. Join us on <a href="https://dont-call-me-resilient.simplecast.com/episodes/coronation-day-what-the-story-of-the-crown-jewels-can-tell-us-about-exploitation-and-the-quest-for-reparations"><em>Don’t Call Me Resilient</em></a> to follow the jewels. </p>
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<p>Much of what was called the British Empire was built from stolen riches — globally — and <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=776527">much of that was from India.</a> </p>
<p>In fact, India was such an abundant contributor to the Crown that at the time of its occupation of South Asia, Britain called India the Jewel in its Crown. </p>
<p>India was called this because of its location — easy access to the silk route, but mostly because of its vast human and natural resources: things like cotton, and tea and of course its abundance of jewels.</p>
<p>Literally, the brightest jewel in Britain’s Crown is the Koh-i-Noor diamond. </p>
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<span class="caption">Nader Shah on the Peacock Throne, whose jewels included the Koh-i-Noor diamond.</span>
<span class="attribution"><span class="source">Wikimedia Commons</span>, <a class="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC BY</a></span>
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<p>It is considered one of the world’s largest and most valued diamonds and it usually sits on top of the Crown of Queen Mary.</p>
<p>It has a controversial history — namely that it was “surrendered” to the British by an Indian 10-year-old boy, Duleep Singh, whose mother had been imprisoned and whose father had recently died. It’s likely for that reason, that it won’t be on display at the coronation. But plenty of other jewels will be part of the ceremony. </p>
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<img alt="" src="https://images.theconversation.com/files/523154/original/file-20230427-28-yd7cfj.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&rect=47%2C41%2C3934%2C2907&q=45&auto=format&w=237&fit=clip" srcset="https://images.theconversation.com/files/523154/original/file-20230427-28-yd7cfj.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=600&h=450&fit=crop&dpr=1 600w, https://images.theconversation.com/files/523154/original/file-20230427-28-yd7cfj.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=30&auto=format&w=600&h=450&fit=crop&dpr=2 1200w, https://images.theconversation.com/files/523154/original/file-20230427-28-yd7cfj.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=15&auto=format&w=600&h=450&fit=crop&dpr=3 1800w, https://images.theconversation.com/files/523154/original/file-20230427-28-yd7cfj.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=754&h=565&fit=crop&dpr=1 754w, https://images.theconversation.com/files/523154/original/file-20230427-28-yd7cfj.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=30&auto=format&w=754&h=565&fit=crop&dpr=2 1508w, https://images.theconversation.com/files/523154/original/file-20230427-28-yd7cfj.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=15&auto=format&w=754&h=565&fit=crop&dpr=3 2262w" sizes="(min-width: 1466px) 754px, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, (min-width: 600px) 600px, 237px">
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<span class="caption">The Imperial State Crown on a cushion as it arrives for the State Opening of Parliament.</span>
<span class="attribution"><span class="source">(Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP)</span></span>
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<p>There is the five-pound gold St. Edward’s Crown that Charles will be officially crowned with, the Sovereign’s Sceptre, which has the Great Star of Africa diamond in it and the Imperial State Crown, which is set with almost 3,000 diamonds - including another Star of Africa.</p>
<p>Joining me to explore the history and meaning behind these jewels is Annie St. John-Stark, assistant professor of British history at Thompson Rivers University. Also here today is: Sharanjit Kaur Sandhra, instructor of history at both the University of the Fraser Valley and the University of British Columbia. Her newly minted PhD looks at how museums can grow to include voices previously left off the “official record.” </p>
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<span class="caption">Queen Elizabeth II on her coronation day.</span>
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<p>Although many will be out partying next weekend, the pomp of the coronation - along with its display of the Crown Jewels - does not reflect current day British attitudes. Only <a href="https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2023/04/14/first-coronation-what-then">32 per cent believe the Empire is something to be proud of</a> — that is down almost 25 per cent <a href="https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2014/07/26/britain-proud-its-empire">from 2014</a>. That means, attitudes are changing quickly. </p>
<p>Will the Royal Family catch up? </p>
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<p>It’s not just the jewels, it’s the pomp of everything that is attached to the ceremony is such a contradiction now to the things we are talking about globally in our world in terms of privilege, colonialism and class structures. - Sharanjit Kaur Sandhra</p>
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<span class="caption">Union flags are raised to celebrate the upcoming coronation of King Charles, in central London, last week.</span>
<span class="attribution"><span class="source">(AP Photo/Kin Cheung)</span></span>
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<span class="caption">This black and white photograph of Maharajah Duleep Singh, the last Indian owner of the Koh-i-Noor diamond was taken by Prince Albert in 1854 in England.</span>
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<p><a href="https://www.bloomsbury.com/ca/kohinoor-9781635570779/"><em>Koh-i-Noor: The History of the World’s Most Infamous Diamond</em> by Anita Anand, William Dalrymple</a> </p>
<p><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/true-story-koh-i-noor-diamondand-why-british-wont-give-it-back-180964660/">The True Story of the Koh-i-Noor Diamond—and Why the British Won’t Give It Back (<em>Smithsonian Magazine</em>)</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/25483040">Koh-i-Noor: Empire, Diamonds, and the Performance of British Material Culture by Danielle C. Kinsey</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/celebs/a43522648/what-crown-will-king-charles-wear/">What Crown will King Charles Wear? (<em>Cosmopolitan</em>)</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/apr/06/indian-archive-reveals-extent-of-colonial-loot-in-royal-jewellery-collection">Indian Archive Reveals Extent of Colonial Loot in Royal Jewellery Collection (<em>The Guardian</em>)</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.saada.org/tides/article/the-ghadar-party">Ghadar Movement</a> </p>
<p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/25/fashion/jewelry-ananya-malhotra-india-spirituality.html">Expressing Indian Spirituality in Jeweled Form (<em>New York Times</em>)</a> </p>
<p><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2018/12/19/how-britain-stole-45-trillion-from-india">How Britain Stole 45 Trillion from India (<em>Al Jazeera</em>)</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/04/east-india-company-original-corporate-raiders">The East India Company: The original corporate raiders (<em>The Guardian</em>)</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/12/21/1144666811/germany-nigeria-returns-benin-bronzes-looted#:%7E:text=The%20Benin%20Bronzes%20are%20sculptures,their%20call%20in%20recent%20years.">Germany Returns Benin Bronzes (<em>NPR</em>)</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/316672/the-new-age-of-empire-by-andrews-kehinde/9780141992365"><em>The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World</em> by Kehinde Andrews</a></p>
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<h2>Listen and Follow</h2>
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Although King Charles will have a low-key ceremony this coronation, the Crown Jewels will still figure prominently. An exploration of the jewels tells a tale of exploitation, rape and pillage.Vinita Srivastava, Host + Producer, Don't Call Me ResilientOllie Nicholas, Assistant Producer/Journalism Student, Don't Call Me ResilientLicensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.tag:theconversation.com,2011:article/2031222023-04-13T13:09:39Z2023-04-13T13:09:39ZFast Fashion: Why garment workers’ lives are still in danger 10 years after Rana Plaza — Podcast<figure><img src="https://images.theconversation.com/files/519920/original/file-20230407-22-j62yrw.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=496&fit=clip" /><figcaption><span class="caption">That cheap statement piece comes at a price: the industry has a 'murderous disregard for human life.'</span> <span class="attribution"><span class="source">(Clockwise: AP/Mahmud Hossain; AP/Ismail Ferdous; Unsplash/Markus Spiske; Unsplash/Clem Onojeghuo)</span></span></figcaption></figure><iframe height="200px" width="100%" frameborder="no" scrolling="no" seamless="" src="https://player.simplecast.com/ad814240-69ec-47f4-b6b5-05e21ad97582?dark=true"></iframe>
<p>Fast fashion is that ever-changing need to have the latest beautiful thing at a bargain price — that club-ready piece of clothing, that status symbol shoe or that must-have top you just found at the mall. </p>
<p>But that cheap statement piece comes at a price. <a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2019/03/1035161">The fashion industry is the second most polluting industry in the world, after the oil and gas sector.</a> It’s also famously unfair to its workers, the majority of whom are women. Although there has been a lot of talk about female empowerment, the reality is that most women who toil on the factory floor remain in poverty for most of their lives. </p>
<p>Ten years ago this month, much attention turned to the global garment industry when a group of garment factories collapsed at Rana Plaza near Dhaka, Bangladesh. The accident, called a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/apr/24/bangladeshi-police-target-garment-workers-union-rana-plaza-five-years-on">“mass industrial homicide”</a> by unions in Bangladesh, killed 1,124 people and injured at least 2,500 more. </p>
<p>Most of the people who went to work that day were young women, almost all were supporting families with their wages and all were at the bottom of the global production chain.</p>
<p><a href="https://dont-call-me-resilient.simplecast.com/episodes/fast-fashion-why-garment-workers-lives-are-still-in-danger-10-years-after-rana-plaza">This week on <em>Don’t Call Me Resilient</em></a>, we look back at the Rana Plaza disaster to explore how much — or how little — has changed for garment worker conditions since.</p>
<p>The industry has a “<a href="https://www.brown.edu/academics/race-ethnicity/events/fast-fashion-and-racial-capitalism-power-and-vulnerability-global-supply-chains-gender-and">murderous disregard for human life.</a>” That’s how this episode’s guest, Minh-Ha Pham, puts it. She is an associate professor in media studies at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and the author of <a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/why-we-cant-have-nice-things"><em>Why We Can’t Have Nice Things.</em></a></p>
<p>Also joining us is Dina Siddiqi, a feminist anthropologist and an expert on labour in Bangladeshi garment factories. She is an associate professor at New York University.</p>
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<h2>‘Murderous disregard for life’</h2>
<p>The collapsed buildings at Rana Plaza had shown signs of cracks the day before. While other tenants in the buildings — the banks and shops — sent their workers home, the garment factories’ managers insisted their people come to work to meet the relentless deadlines of clothing manufacturing. </p>
<p>Ten years ago, but also today, Siddiqi says garment workers are left with impossible choices: </p>
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<p>“They did not feel they had the right to say no because they were threatened with dismissal. They were owed wages already. Those are everyday conditions in the garment industry…their choice was: risk dismissal and possible starvation…or risk their lives.”</p>
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<p>Approximately five million people in Bangladesh work to produce clothing for hundreds of major international brands, <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/1/11/fashion-brands-paid-less-than-production-cost-to-bangladesh-firms">including Zara, H&M and GAP</a>. It is the second largest global producer of clothing and has the lowest wages. </p>
<p>Garment factories also exist in the Global North. Last week the United States Department of Labor released a report on garment workers in Los Angeles that said <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-04-04/garment-industry-los-angeles-low-wages-violations-us-department-of-labor-report">some were getting paid as little as $1.58 an hour</a>. </p>
<h2>Corporate solutions fall short</h2>
<p>While many corporations have now signed the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/25/business/garment-worker-safety-accord.html">Bangladesh Accord</a> in an attempt to make things safer, Minh-Ha Pham says the accord has a narrow definition of worker safety. The focus is on structural integrity of buildings and corporate liability. But Pham says: </p>
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<p>“If you talk to workers, safety means having a workplace free of physical, sexual verbal assault. Safety is getting paid on time. Not having the freedom of association, not having child care, not having maternity leave…create unsafe conditions of labour. [These are things that] initiatives like the Bangladesh accord don’t even begin to imagine.”</p>
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<p>The focus on corporate-led solutions, such as the accord, allows clothing brands to appear socially responsible in spite of the reality on the ground. Pham says that without oversight and regulation, these types of initiatives “make brands that are signing on to these initiatives…look good. Consumers feel good about these brands. But there’s no follow through.”</p>
<h2>Western saviour complex</h2>
<p><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/352893724_The_fashion_scandal_Social_media_identity_and_the_globalization_of_fashion_in_the_twenty-first_century">Social media campaigns</a> to hold brands accountable to their workers have proliferated in the last decade. </p>
<p>However well intended, Pham says these campaigns — primarily led by those in the Global North — don’t address the structural and systemic nature of exploitation inherent to the global garment industry. </p>
<p>She says the campaigns can actually take the attention away from the structural problems. “They make us feel like if we could just tweak this thing, then everything else will be okay. It actually legitimizes the system because (it says) the system is basically okay, but for A, B, and C things that we can fix.” </p>
<p>And Siddiqi says in the last 10 years, brands have actually paid Bangladeshi garment workers increasingly lower prices to make the exact same product. “So brands are squeezing Bangladesh at the same time that they’re telling Bangladesh factory owners that they must be better to their workers.”</p>
<p>Both Siddiqi and Pham also caution against the idea that this is solely a Bangladeshi problem. They say racist assumptions see the Global South as inherently corrupt and “backwards.” But these notions overshadow the <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-04-04/garment-industry-los-angeles-low-wages-violations-us-department-of-labor-report">exploitation of and resistance by</a> racialized and gendered workers in the West, in places like Los Angeles. </p>
<p>Pham says “it’s easy to think of, you know, oh gosh, those people over there…They don’t care about humanity. They don’t care about safety. [But] this happened in California.” </p>
<p>For example, in 2020, Pham says, garment workers were being “held up as heroes because factories shifted to making masks for a while when we were wearing cloth masks. But (workers) oftentimes (were) coming in without health insurance, without safety protocols, oftentimes without masks risking COVID, (working) in California, for piece rate wages.” </p>
<h2>Now what?</h2>
<p>Both scholars say those who want to help to alleviate pervasive exploitation in the global garment factory industry must make efforts to understand an intentionally opaque supply chain system. This includes learning about brand contracts, international trade and labour laws and immigration and border policies. It also involves the necessary but difficult task of explicitly naming capitalism as a structural problem. </p>
<p>Ultimately, Pham and Siddiqi say western advocates must support collective actions initiated by the workers themselves.</p>
<h2>From The Conversation</h2>
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<h2>Read more</h2>
<p><a href="https://doi.org/10.1017/S0147547915000101">“Starving for Justice”</a> by Dina Siddiqi</p>
<p><a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/153596/fix-fashion-industrys-racism">“How to Fix the Fashion Industry’s Racism”</a> by Minh-Ha Pham</p>
<p><a href="http://www.taslimaakhter.com/garment_workers_life_struggle/">Taslima Akhter: Documentary photographer and activist </a></p>
<p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/turn-up-the-heat-on-fairness-american-garment-workers-deserve-better/">“Turn Up the Heat on Fairness: American Garment Workers Deserve Better”</a></p>
<p><a href="https://remake.world/stories/news/colonialism-in-fashion-brands-are-todays-colonial-masters/">“Brands are Today’s Colonial Masters”</a></p>
<h2>Listen and Follow</h2>
<p>You can listen to or follow <em>Don’t Call Me Resilient</em> on <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/dont-call-me-resilient/id1549798876">Apple Podcasts</a>, <a href="https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjYXN0LmNvbS9qZFg0Ql9DOA">Google Podcasts</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/37tK4zmjWvq2Sh6jLIpzp7">Spotify</a> or <a href="https://dont-call-me-resilient.simplecast.com">wherever you listen to your favourite podcasts</a>. <a href="mailto:DCMR@theconversation.com">We’d love to hear from you</a>, including any ideas for future episodes. Join The Conversation on <a href="https://twitter.com/ConversationCA">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheConversationCanada">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/theconversationdotcom/">Instagram</a> and <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@theconversation">TikTok</a> and use #DontCallMeResilient.</p><img src="https://counter.theconversation.com/content/203122/count.gif" alt="The Conversation" width="1" height="1" />
We look back to the 2013 Rana Plaza garment factory collapse in Bangladesh that killed 1,124 people and discuss how much — or how little — has changed for garment-worker conditions today.Vinita Srivastava, Host + Producer, Don't Call Me ResilientBoké Saisi, Associate Producer, Don't Call Me ResilientLicensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.tag:theconversation.com,2011:article/2024972023-03-24T17:26:40Z2023-03-24T17:26:40ZIn its new season, ‘Don’t Call Me Resilient’ brings you the news — through an anti-racist lens 🎧<p>We’re getting ready to bring you Season 5 of <a href="https://dont-call-me-resilient.simplecast.com/"><em>Don’t Call Me Resilient</em></a>, our podcast that takes on systemic racism and the ways it permeates so many aspects of our everyday lives. </p>
<p>For this season, which we launch on March 30, we’ll be getting a little newsier, recording in real time. </p>
<p>Have a listen to our trailer here and read on to learn a bit more.</p>
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<p>We’ll be talking about both big news stories and those more under-reported from an anti-racist lens. We’ll be getting into everything from breaking news events, to the aftermath of large political shifts in our social landscape (think the human fallout of <em>Roe v. Wade</em> overturning). One thing will remain the same: the crucial role of storytelling in surviving our current world and building a better one.</p>
<p>As we live through historic overlapping and interrelated crises, we’ll focus on imagining a better future together.</p>
<p>Listen in and stay tuned. And if you have ideas that you would love to see covered, we’d especially love to hear from you. Email us at <a href="mailto:theculturedesk@theconversation.com">theculturedesk@theconversation.com</a>.</p>
<p>Join The Conversation on <a href="https://twitter.com/ConversationCA">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheConversationCanada">Facebook</a> and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/theconversationdotcom/">Instagram</a> and use #DontCallMeResilient.</p>
<p>You can listen to all of the episodes or follow on <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/dont-call-me-resilient/id1549798876">Apple Podcasts</a>, <a href="https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjYXN0LmNvbS9qZFg0Ql9DOA">Google Podcasts</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/37tK4zmjWvq2Sh6jLIpzp7">Spotify</a> or <a href="https://dont-call-me-resilient.simplecast.com/">wherever you listen to your favourite podcasts</a>.</p>
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Host Vinita Srivastava goes deep with academic experts and those with lived experience to bring you your weekly dose of news, from an anti-racist perspective.Vinita Srivastava, Host + Producer, Don't Call Me ResilientBoké Saisi, Associate Producer, Don't Call Me ResilientLicensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.tag:theconversation.com,2011:article/1986412023-02-01T16:20:07Z2023-02-01T16:20:07ZWe curated a podcast playlist for you: Revisit these conversations for Black History Month<figure><img src="https://images.theconversation.com/files/506652/original/file-20230126-36527-f14kx8.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&rect=5%2C23%2C3976%2C2203&q=45&auto=format&w=496&fit=clip" /><figcaption><span class="caption">Black Lives Matter demonstration, July 2016, New York City.</span> <span class="attribution"><span class="source">Nicole Baster/Unsplash</span></span></figcaption></figure><p>February is Black History Month, and this year the theme is Resistance.</p>
<p>The podcast episodes on this playlist showcase some of our favourites from <em>The Conversation Canada</em>’s audio content related to Black history, from our flagship podcast, <em>Don’t Call Me Resilient</em>.</p>
<p>These conversations with scholars and activists are as urgent and important now as they were when we first recorded them. The episodes on this playlist span the start of the pandemic with its worldwide demonstrations against anti-Black racism, to the most recent violence this winter. </p>
<p>In all of these episodes, passionate experts get into their research and ideas, helping to provide context, history and their unique analysis to current events, trends and breaking news. </p>
<p>Topics in this playlist include: Why the n-word is so traumatic, how to live peacefully and joyfully while continuously confronting racism; how to explain what critical race theory is; why long COVID impacts women of colour at higher rates; and how we need to do something about the rising violence in schools. </p>
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<p>As we share this playlist, we are also busy putting together Season 5 of <em>Don’t Call Me Resilient</em>. <a href="mailto:theculturedesk@theconversation.com">We’d love to hear from you</a>! Send us ideas on what you’d like to hear about, what you don’t want to hear about, and story ideas for what you think we should cover.</p>
<p>And be on the lookout! We are creating another playlist of fellow podcasters who are also examining the world around us and current events through a critical race lens. (Someone on Twitter recently said, instead of calling it critical race theory, <a href="https://twitter.com/Strandjunker/status/1615061385842462758?s=20&t=he4G_2rCyvGnZalKZFtW-w">we should just call it American history</a>). So send us your favourite episodes and we will add it to the list.</p>
<p>Join our conversation on <a href="https://twitter.com/ConversationCA">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheConversationCanada">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/theconversationdotcom/">Instagram</a> and <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@theconversation">TikTok</a> using #DontCallMeResilient.</p>
<p><strong>Here is our <em>Don’t Call Me Resilient</em> playlist and below are the links and descriptions to individual episodes.</strong></p>
<h2><em>Don’t Call Me Resilient</em> playlist:</h2>
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<h2><a href="https://theconversation.com/whats-in-a-word-how-to-confront-150-years-of-racial-stereotypes-dont-call-me-resilient-ep-1-153790">What’s in a word? How to confront 150 years of racial stereotypes</a></h2>
<p>We keep hearing stories about people, including scholars, who continue to use the n-word. Toronto-based Professor Cheryl Thompson, author of <em>Uncle: Race, Nostalgia and the Politics of Loyalty</em>, discusses why it’s not OK. She talks about how North American culture has spent the last 150 years building anti-Black tropes, how they continue to persist today — and how we can confront it.</p>
<h2><a href="https://theconversation.com/how-to-deal-with-the-pain-of-racism-and-become-a-better-advocate-dont-call-me-resilient-ep-2-154631">How to deal with the pain of racism — and become a better advocate</a></h2>
<p>The global protest movement that grew after George Floyd’s murder in May 2020 that called for an end to racism and police brutality sparked new conversations about racism. But it also surfaced a lot of pain for those who deal daily with racism. In this episode, Zen priest, writer and activist, Reverend angel Kyodo williams speaks about the pain of racism, and how she uses meditation to combat it and become a stronger anti-racist activist in America today.</p>
<h2><a href="https://theconversation.com/how-to-spark-change-within-our-unequal-education-system-dont-call-me-resilient-ep-3-152355">How to spark change within our unequal education system</a></h2>
<p>Education experts have long been sounding the alarm about the future of racialized children in our schools. These warnings became more prevalent in the past two years as the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated a deepening divide in how racialized students experience the education system. Carl James, professor of education at York University and Kulsoom Anwer, a high school teacher who works out of one of Toronto’s most marginalized neighborhoods, Jane and Finch, join us to discuss the injustices and inequalities in the education system — and the way forward.</p>
<h2><a href="https://theconversation.com/black-health-matters-dont-call-me-resilient-ep-5-155950">Black health matters</a></h2>
<p>When COVID-19 first appeared, some said it was the great equalizer. But the facts have now revealed a grim reality: COVID-19 disproportionately impacts Black, Indigenous, poor and racialized communities. Roberta K. Timothy, assistant professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto, joins us to talk about her global research project, Black Health Matters, and why racial justice is a public health matter.</p>
<h2><a href="https://theconversation.com/how-stories-about-alternate-worlds-can-help-us-imagine-a-better-future-dont-call-me-resilient-ep-7-165933">How stories about alternate worlds can help us imagine a better future</a></h2>
<p>Stories are a powerful tool to resist oppressive situations. They give writers from marginalized communities a way to imagine alternate realities, and to critique the one we live in. In this episode, Vinita speaks to two storytellers who offer up wonderous “otherworlds” for Indigenous and Black people. Selwyn Seyfu Hinds is an L.A-based screenwriter who wrote for Jordan Peele’s <em>The Twilight Zone</em> and is currently writing the screenplay for Esi Edugyan’s <em>Washington Black</em>. Daniel Heath Justice is professor and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous literature and expressive culture at the University of British Columbia.</p>
<h2><a href="https://theconversation.com/making-our-food-fairer-dont-call-me-resilient-ep-12-171554">Making our food fairer</a></h2>
<p>In 2021, studies showed that one out of every eight households in Canada is food insecure. For racialized Canadians, that number was higher – two to three times the national average. In this episode, Vinita explored what is happening with our food systems, and what we can do to make them fairer with two women who have been tackling this issue for years. Melana Roberts is Chair of Food Secure Canada and one of the leaders behind Canada’s first Black food sovereignty plan. Also joining the conversation is Tabitha Robin Martens, assistant professor at UBC’s Faculty of Land and Food Systems. Martens researches Indigenous food sovereignty and works with Cree communities to bolster traditional land uses.</p>
<h2><a href="https://theconversation.com/why-you-shouldnt-be-afraid-of-critical-race-theory-podcast-183973">Why you shouldn’t be afraid of critical race theory</a></h2>
<p>In this episode, we explore how applying critical race theory in classrooms across Canada helps both students and teachers. Teresa Fowler, assistant professor of Education at Concordia University of Edmonton joins us. So does Dwayne Brown, a PhD student in Education at York University, and a grade seven teacher with the Toronto District School Board. Both Brown and Fowler use critical race theory in their classrooms every day, and say that it helps them to see and evaluate their own biases — while also making students feel truly included in their own education.</p>
<h2><a href="https://theconversation.com/why-isnt-anyone-talking-about-who-gets-long-covid-podcast-191659">Why isn’t anyone talking about who gets long COVID?</a></h2>
<p>Long COVID has been called a mass-disabling event. It hits one in every five people infected with the virus, and hits Black and Latinx women especially hard. Vinita dives into why that is — and why we’re not talking about it — with Margot Gage Witvliet, who has insights into long COVID both as a Black woman who has been suffering the effects of it, and as a social epidemiologist who studies it. Margot is an assistant professor at Lamar University in Beaumont, Tex. She has presented her long COVID findings to the United States Task Force on equity and COVID and runs an online support and advocacy group for BIPOC women living with long COVID.</p>
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<p>In 2007, 15-year-old Jordan Manners became the first student to be shot and killed inside a Toronto school. Since then, youth violence hasn’t let up in Canada’s largest city. In fact, it’s getting worse. Devon Jones and Ardavan Eizadirad say it’s a major problem that needs a more holistic approach. Ardavan is an assistant professor in the Department of Education at Wilfrid Laurier University who studies the root causes of gun violence. He and Devon run Y.A.A.A.C.E. — a community organization started by Devon that tackles the root causes of youth gun violence in Toronto. They join Vinita to talk about what has been going wrong and how to get it right.</p>
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The episodes on this playlist span the start of the pandemic with its worldwide demonstrations against anti-Black racism, to the most recent violence this winter.Vinita Srivastava, Host + Producer, Don't Call Me ResilientAteqah Khaki, Associate Producer, Don't Call Me ResilientLicensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.tag:theconversation.com,2011:article/1924702022-12-14T17:24:50Z2022-12-14T17:24:50ZWhat’s so funny about race? — Podcast<figure><img src="https://images.theconversation.com/files/501042/original/file-20221214-6441-p74buy.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&rect=38%2C19%2C944%2C643&q=45&auto=format&w=496&fit=clip" /><figcaption><span class="caption">We discuss the politics of comedy with comedian Andrea Jin who recently made her late-night debut on 'The Late Late Show with James Corden' in October.</span> <span class="attribution"><span class="source">(The Late Late Show with James Corden)</span></span></figcaption></figure><iframe height="200px" width="100%" frameborder="no" scrolling="no" seamless="" src="https://player.simplecast.com/fabfe1af-b65f-46e1-8b83-1eefdb614dfd?dark=true"></iframe>
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<p>A lot of us turn to comedians we know and love to help us laugh at ourselves, our communities or the overwhelm of politics. Just look at the beautiful accolades received by Trevor Noah this month as <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2022/12/08/trevor-noah-daily-show-legacy/">he bade goodbye to his <em>Daily Show</em> audiences</a>. </p>
<p>Noah and other comedians like Roy Wood Jr., Mindy Kaling, Ali Wong, Chris Rock and Hasan Minhaj put race and other sensitive issues at the centre of their comedy. This gives us — the audience — reason to laugh, whether the jokes are directed towards us or not. It’s a way to release some of the tensions around some serious issues. </p>
<p>As comedy evolves, where is the line between a lighthearted joke and deep-rooted racism? And how far is too far? </p>
<p><a href="https://dont-call-me-resilient.simplecast.com/episodes/whats-so-funny-about-race">In this episode of <em>Don’t Call Me Resilient</em></a>, we get into it with Faiza Hirji, associate professor of communication studies and media arts at McMaster University and award-winning <a href="https://fanlink.to/GrandmasGirl">stand-up comedian Andrea Jin</a>. They look at how comedy can be an easier way to talk about difficult issues, and at how we can find a way to laugh with each other — rather than at each other. </p>
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<p>The psychology behind laughing at jokes can be traced back many years. While Hobbes and Plato suggested that making fun <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/02/the-dark-psychology-of-being-a-good-comedian/284104/">helps us feel superior</a>, Kant thought about it more as a cognitive shift from a <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/55636">serious situation into playful territory</a>. More recently, psychologist Daniela S. Hugelshofer <a href="https://doi.org/10.1002/per.586">showed</a> how humour can act as a buffer against hopelessness and depression.</p>
<p>According to marketing psychologist Peter McGraw, who runs the Humor Research Lab at the University of Colorado Boulder, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysSgG5V-R3U">“benign violation”</a> needs to be satisfied for us to find something funny. That is, for a joke to be funny, there needs to be a social or cultural violation and it must be benign.</p>
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<h2>Transcript</h2>
<p>For an unedited transcript of this episode, go <a href="https://dont-call-me-resilient.simplecast.com/episodes/whats-so-funny-about-race/transcript">here</a>.</p>
<h2>Clips used in this episode</h2>
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<li>Andrea Jin on <em>The Late Late show with James Corden</em> on Oct. 25, 2022</li>
<li>Andrea Jin, <em>Grandma’s Girl</em></li>
<li>Russell Peters: <em>Comedy Now Uncensored Special</em>, 2004 (Toronto)</li>
<li>Eman El-Husseini: <em>Comedy Now Uncensored</em>, Season 15, 2012 (Toronto)</li>
<li>Mindy Kaling: <em>Never Have I Ever …"felt super Indian</em>“ (S1, E4) </li>
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<p><em>Don’t Call Me Resilient is produced in partnership with the Journalism Innovation Lab at the University of British Columbia and with a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.</em></p><img src="https://counter.theconversation.com/content/192470/count.gif" alt="The Conversation" width="1" height="1" />
Some comedians put race at the centre of their comedy, giving audiences a chance to release some tension. But how far is too far? Where is the line between a lighthearted joke and deep-rooted racism?Vinita Srivastava, Host + Producer, Don't Call Me ResilientOllie Nicholas, Assistant Producer/Journalism Student, Don't Call Me ResilientRithika Shenoy, Assistant Producer, Don't Call Me ResilientLicensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.tag:theconversation.com,2011:article/1941452022-12-07T17:57:44Z2022-12-07T17:57:44ZHow can we slow down youth gun violence? — Podcast<figure><img src="https://images.theconversation.com/files/499363/original/file-20221206-3888-uw7zw1.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&rect=33%2C50%2C5526%2C3650&q=45&auto=format&w=496&fit=clip" /><figcaption><span class="caption">Fifteen years after Jordan Manners was killed in a Toronto school, Canada's largest city is still struggling to curb youth violence. </span> <span class="attribution"><span class="source">(Shutterstock)</span></span></figcaption></figure><iframe height="200px" width="100%" frameborder="no" scrolling="no" seamless="" src="https://player.simplecast.com/3ccb12ac-6927-4844-ae7d-3c0c82945809?dark=true"></iframe>
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<p>It was 15 years ago: police officers flooded C. W. Jefferys Collegiate in northwest Toronto. Outside, hundreds of anxious parents stood waiting for answers. The news that police delivered — as we now know — was tragic. </p>
<p>Fifteen-year-old Jordan Manners had been killed. It was the first time anyone had been fatally shot inside a Toronto school. Jordan’s death stunned his community and the nation. And for many, it punctured the illusion of safety in Canadian schools.</p>
<p>Since then, we’ve seen a slew of reports and funds directed at anti-violence projects in Toronto. But youth violence in Canada’s largest city hasn’t let up. </p>
<p>In fact, it’s getting worse.</p>
<p>This year, on Valentine’s Day, a student was fatally shot inside a Toronto high school and in October, another shooting happened outside a school. </p>
<p>In the Toronto District School Board, <a href="https://thelocal.to/two-school-shootings-15-years-apart/">the number of physical assaults</a> has risen by 174 per cent between 2014 and 2019 and the number of incidents involving a weapon has risen by 60 per cent.</p>
<p>Why is gun violence increasing? And can we slow it down? </p>
<p>Devon Jones has spent the past 15 years tackling these very questions. He is a teacher and well-recognized youth worker in the Jane and Finch community — where Jordan Manners was killed. It has been described as Toronto’s most dangerous area to be a kid.</p>
<p>Jones has seen many students who have lost their lives to violence over the years, including Manners. But he has also saved many lives through programs offered by YAAACE — an organization he founded in 2007 that focuses on basketball and academics. He’s a busy man, who had just rushed from dealing with a youth emergency before talking to us from school.</p>
<p>One of the former volunteers of Jones’s organization is Ardavan Eizadirad. Eizadirad is now the executive director of YAAACE. He is also an assistant professor in the Faculty of Education at Wilfrid Laurier University who has written about the root causes of gun violence.</p>
<p><a href="https://dont-call-me-resilient.simplecast.com/episodes/https-theconversationcom-how-can-we-slow-down-youth-gun-violence-194145">Join us on <em>Don’t Call Me Resilient</em></a> as we speak to Jones and Eizadirad about the rising rates of gun violence in Canada and the role community organizations play in the solution.</p>
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<h2>Articles in the Conversation</h2>
<p><strong>Read</strong> the companion article to this episode of <em>Don’t Call Me Resilient</em>: </p>
<p><a href="https://theconversation.com/to-resolve-youth-violence-canada-must-move-beyond-policing-and-prison-190825"><strong><em>To resolve youth violence, Canada must move beyond policing and prison</em></strong></a></p>
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<a href="https://theconversation.com/canada-shouldnt-be-smug-about-gun-violence-its-a-growing-problem-here-too-184210">Canada shouldn't be smug about gun violence — it's a growing problem here, too</a>
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<p><em><strong>Read more: <a href="https://theconversation.com/gun-violence-can-be-reduced-with-a-strategy-focused-on-deterrence-187682">Gun violence can be reduced with a strategy focused on deterrence</a></strong></em></p>
<p><strong><em>Read more: <a href="https://theconversation.com/canada-once-sold-the-idea-that-guns-turned-boys-into-men-121296">Canada once sold the idea that guns turned boys into men</a></em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>Read more: <a href="https://theconversation.com/thugs-is-a-race-code-word-that-fuels-anti-black-racism-100312">‘Thugs’ is a race-code word that fuels anti-Black racism</a></em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>Read more: <a href="https://theconversation.com/toronto-mass-shooting-how-the-city-is-coping-a-month-later-100813">Toronto mass shooting: How the city is coping a month later</a></em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>Read more: <a href="https://theconversation.com/calls-for-stronger-handgun-laws-in-canada-have-deep-roots-101051">Calls for stronger handgun laws in Canada have deep roots</a></em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>Read more: <a href="https://theconversation.com/proposed-canadian-gun-bill-will-create-u-s-style-patchwork-of-firearms-laws-156480">Proposed Canadian gun bill will create U.S.-style patchwork of firearms laws</a></em></strong></p>
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<p><a href="https://thelocal.to/two-school-shootings-15-years-apart/">Two School Shootings, 15 Years Apart</a></p>
<p><a href="https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/student-fatally-shot-inside-toronto-high-school-1.5780952">Student fatally shot inside Toronto high school
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<p><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/scarborough-school-shooting-1.6635808">Shooting outside Toronto high school leaves 1 dead, 1 teen injured
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<p><a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/15388220.2021.1879097">Prevalence and Impact of Harassment and Violence against Educators in Canada</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2017/05/27/the-death-of-jordan-manners-tore-apart-his-school-how-cw-jefferys-was-resurrected.html">The death of Jordan Manners tore apart his school. How C.W. Jefferys was resurrected. the Toronto Star by Andrea Gordon</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.nationalobserver.com/2015/12/04/news/how-american-gun-deaths-and-gun-laws-compare-canadas">How American gun deaths and gun laws compare to Canada’s
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<p><a href="https://yaaace.com/">Youth Association for Academics, Athletics, and Character Education (YAAACE)
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Youth violence hasn’t let up in Toronto. In fact, it’s getting worse. Community members say it’s a major problem that needs a more holistic solution.Vinita Srivastava, Host + Producer, Don't Call Me ResilientDannielle Piper, Associate Producer, Don't Call Me Resilient, The ConversationLicensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.tag:theconversation.com,2011:article/1924672022-11-23T16:04:44Z2022-11-23T16:04:44ZHow to decolonize journalism — Podcast<figure><img src="https://images.theconversation.com/files/497076/original/file-20221123-24-8zq33s.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&rect=14%2C57%2C1902%2C1020&q=45&auto=format&w=496&fit=clip" /><figcaption><span class="caption">Duncan McCue, left, walks with Rocky James, a podcast guest on CBC's 'Kuper Island.'
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<p>Despite the jokes about our egos, many of us journalists got into the business because we felt a need to call out powerful institutions. </p>
<p>But journalism itself is one of those powerful institutions, and it has failed time and again to address criticisms around who gets to tell the news and whose perspectives get left out. </p>
<p>Some researchers <a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190067076.001.0001">have called this a crisis of journalism, a “digital reckoning.”</a> And they are not talking about economics — with local newsrooms and news budgets on the decline — though that is part of it. </p>
<p>When it comes to reporting and covering Indigenous Peoples, journalism’s institutions have failed. For example, a good part of the reason so many <a href="https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/2022/06/20/how-familiar-are-canadians-with-the-history-of-indigenous-residential-schools.html">Canadians are not familiar with the history of the Indian Residential Schools</a> is because Canadian media failed to tell those stories. We failed to address the ongoing colonialism and that has meant that urgent Indigenous issues have been ignored or sensationalized.</p>
<p>And journalism schools only recently began teaching their students how to think critically while covering stories like these. </p>
<p>Our guest <a href="https://dont-call-me-resilient.simplecast.com/episodes/decolonizing-journalism">on this episode of <em>Don’t Call Me Resilient</em></a> has been working on correcting these issues both in the newsroom and in the classroom. </p>
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<span class="caption">Duncan McCue has published Decolonizing Journalism, a new book to help journalists contend with the bias in news media.</span>
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<p>Duncan McCue is an award-winning Anishinaabe journalist. </p>
<p>He has worked at the CBC for over 20 years reporting for <em>The National</em> and as the host of <em>Cross Country Checkup</em>. </p>
<p>Duncan was part of a CBC investigation into missing and murdered Indigenous women that <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/cbc-mmiw-investigations-hillman-prize-1.3501398">won the Hillman Award for Investigative Journalism</a>. Most recently, he has produced and hosted <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/1062-kuper-island"><em>Kuper Island</em></a>, an eight-episode podcast that focuses on four students of a residential school in B.C. — three who survived and one who didn’t. </p>
<p>As an educator, Duncan has taught journalism at the University of British Columbia and Toronto Metropolitan University. And he just published a new book, <a href="https://www.oupcanada.com/catalog/9780190164263.html"><em>Decolonizing Journalism</em></a>.</p>
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<h2>Also in The Conversation</h2>
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<a href="https://theconversation.com/four-corners-how-many-more-reveals-the-nations-crisis-of-indigenous-women-missing-and-murdered-193216">Four Corners' 'How many more?' reveals the nation's crisis of Indigenous women missing and murdered</a>
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<a href="https://theconversation.com/the-toronto-star-is-making-the-right-move-by-renaming-the-lou-marsh-trophy-191831">The Toronto Star is making the right move by renaming the Lou Marsh trophy</a>
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<a href="https://theconversation.com/canadas-shameful-history-of-sterilizing-indigenous-women-107876">Canada's shameful history of sterilizing Indigenous women</a>
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<a href="https://theconversation.com/thunder-bay-local-news-is-important-for-conversations-on-reconciliation-114875">Thunder Bay: Local news is important for conversations on reconciliation</a>
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<a href="https://theconversation.com/stanley-trial-highlights-colonialism-of-canadian-media-91375">Stanley trial highlights colonialism of Canadian media</a>
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<h2>Sources</h2>
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<li><p><a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/decolonizing-journalism-9780190164263?cc=ca&lang=en&"><em>Decolonizing Journalism</em></a> by Duncan McCue</p></li>
<li><p><a href="https://uofmpress.ca/books/detail/seeing-red"><em>Seeing Red</em></a> by Mark Cronlund Anderson and Carmen L. Robertson </p></li>
<li><p><a href="https://www.versobooks.com/books/2953-our-history-is-the-future"><em>Our History is the Future</em></a> by Nick Estes</p></li>
<li><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190067076.001.0001"><em>Reckoning: Journalism’s Limits and Possibilities</em></a> by Candis Callison and Mary Lynn Young. </p></li>
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<span class="caption">From the left: Seeing Red by Mark Cronlund Anderson and Carmen L. Robertson,
Our History is Our Future by Nick Estes and Reckoning by Candis Callison and Mary Lynn Young.</span>
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<h2>Transcript</h2>
<p>The unedited version of the transcript is available <a href="https://dont-call-me-resilient.simplecast.com/episodes/decolonizing-journalism/transcript">here</a>.</p>
<p><em>Don’t Call Me Resilient is produced in partnership with the Journalism Innovation Lab at the University of British Columbia and with a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.</em></p><img src="https://counter.theconversation.com/content/192467/count.gif" alt="The Conversation" width="1" height="1" />
Canadian journalist institutions have failed to address their ongoing colonialism and that has meant that urgent Indigenous issues have been ignored or sensationalized.Vinita Srivastava, Host + Producer, Don't Call Me ResilientLicensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.