Tag: blm

• Sitting in Discomfort

  

  Three hundred and sixty five days and counting from the Summer of 2020. We’ve “finished” riding the BLM wave, we’ve listened to countless numbers of members of our Asian communities express their lived experiences of being verbally attacked, targeted and in the case of the mass shooting in the US- murdered. In Canada, we are…

  Rekeisha

  June 28, 2021

  Opinion Piece

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• Does My Blackness Offend You?

  Nothing clears or quiets a room of White people faster than mentioning race, it’s the one topic where you are sure to be the “buzz kill”. But why is that? What is it about the subject that makes people squirm in their seats? Is it because it’s the ultimate trump card? Do they feel that…

  Rekeisha

  November 16, 2020

  Opinion Piece

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