Anti-Racism Learning, Reflection, and Action
MandS 2023: November 5. From October 10 to December 1, 2023, the 40 Days of Engagement on Anti-Racism program offers daily and weekly opportunities for learning, reflection, and action.
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40 Days on Anti-Racism: Music and the Universal Language Myth
Day 11 of 40 Days of Engagement on Anti-Racism: Deborah Bradley notes that the belief in European superiority, including music, enabled the Christian Church to impose racist harm under the guise of “mission.” Some hymns still cause harm.
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40 Days on Anti-Racism: I Have Called You by Your Name
Day 10 of 40 Days of Engagement on Anti-Racism: Deborah Richards reflects on the importance of names to our identity and how names have been used to erase identity.
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40 Days on Anti-Racism: Grieving the Loss of My First Language
Day 9 of 40 Days of Engagement on Anti-Racism: Roni Beharry will know that church is radically welcoming when her current congregation is invited to pray the Lord’s Prayer in their respective first languages.
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40 Days: Reflections of a Successful Fox and Dog Hybrid on Humiliation Day
Day 8 of 40 Days of Engagement on Anti-Racism: Chris Mah Poy argues that understanding the terrors and triumphs of your country’s history—including its racist history—is an act of loyalty.
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40 Days on Anti-Racism: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion and the Colonial Legacy
Day 7 of 40 Days of Engagement on Anti-Racism. Néstor Medina observes that if racism is considered to be “solved” through equity, diversity, and inclusion policies, then the ongoing reality of racism becomes an inconvenient truth.
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40 Days on Anti-Racism: If They Look Like Me
Day 6 of 40 Days of Engagement on Anti-Racism. Alexa Gilmour shares experiences of how Canadians discriminate against Black African asylum seekers.
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40 Days on Anti-Racism: Magpie, You Bring the Good News
Day 5 of 40 Days of Engagement on Anti-Racism: For MeYeon Kim, living as a Korean in Canada is like being a magpie in Canada—being regarded as a nuisance bird.
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40 Days on Anti-Racism: Anti-Racism Muscle
Day 4 of 40 Days of Engagement on Anti-Racism: For Julie Graham, if White people accept the bubble White privilege offers them every moment of every day, they never engage anti-racism muscle groups.
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40 Days on Anti-Racism: Lots to Say on “Being Black”
Day 3 of 40 Days of Engagement on Anti-Racism: Jonisha Lewinson reflects on how society has created a staple definition of what a Black person is and on what “being Black” really means.
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