Day 13 of 40 Days of Engagement on Anti-Racism: For Jeffrey Dale, the stories of Indigenous or racialized experiences that we grew up on need to be examined for biases and with a discerning mind today.
continue readingDay 14 of 40 Days of Engagement on Anti-Racism. Inzwirashe Munikwa seeks to understand Black culture and her Zimbabwean roots beyond the labels the world may apply to her.
continue readingDay 15 of 40 Days of Engagement on Anti-Racism: What Katherine Brittain has learned most of all about White privilege is that White people have an obligation to keep showing up without trying to make things “better.”
continue readingDay 16 of 40 Days of Engagement on Anti-Racism: For Shane Goldie, wearing both a minister’s hat and the hat of a Two-Spirit Indigenous person in the world today is not a journey for the faint of heart.
continue readingDay 17 of 40 Days of Engagement on Anti-Racism: Ibi Soqluman (Chuan) points out that “It’s just a joke—don’t take it so seriously” is an unacceptable response to racist language and systemic racism.
continue readingDay 18 of 40 Days of Engagement on Anti-Racism: Diane Dwarka hopes that, as time moves on, racialized people who choose to be members of the United Church will be fully accepted and not treated as guests or visitors.
continue readingDay 19 of 40 Days of Engagement on Anti-Racism. Sarah Yang, the teenage child of Korean immigrants, has wrestled with racism, identity, and intergenerational culture clash.
continue readingDay 20 of 40 Days of Engagement on Anti-Racism. Matthew Tyhurst recounts how the testimony of a racialized person his own age helped change the way he looks at the world.
continue readingDay 21 of 40 Days of Engagement on Anti-Racism: For Michiko Bown-Kai, moving from a big city to a small town has meant imagining new ways to remain committed to the ongoing work of racial justice.
continue readingDay 22 of 40 Days of Engagement on Anti-Racism: Becca Whitla notes that unless we confront racism as a social construction that was used to facilitate colonial expansion, we are not really getting at its root causes.
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