Day 8: Project Respect’s Knowledge Mobilization – Youth Council Zine
Project Respect is offering an exciting, free workshop Saturday March 9th, 2019, to provide an opportunity for youth 12-19 to develop facilitation skills, and learn how to create space for learning and growth about social justice. Facilitated by Tahia Ahmed, the workshop will provide youth from across communities and experience to learn and grow as…
We’re all special in our own ways, and part of our specialties is people’s privilege. So essentially we’re all privileged in our own ways. I wish I could end it there, but we can’t, so let’s plow forwards through this wildness together. So what is privilege? Borrowing a (paraphrased) quote from a friend: “privilege is…
It’s true, men and women had and do have traditional roles in Indigenous cultures (if you have a problem with that, remember that the violent patriarchy was a construct of the colonizers). It is also true but not widely known, that before colonization, people who were queer and/or transgender were revered in most Indigenous cultures. There…
This banner was created by Respecters in Spectrum Community School and the other students there. Students and staff printed their hands on the banner to show that they were taking a stand against violence. Right on!
A pod is a concept developed by disability activist Mia Mingus as a part of creating a self-care community. A pod is a group of people who you can go to if violence, harm, or abuse has happened to you, if you caused harm, or if you have witnessed harm. A person can have multiple…
Do you ever feel like there is no character in movies, TV shows, comics, or books who you can relate to? That the media’s or arts’ representation of the spectrum of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, (dis)ability, class, and income does not do justice to the complications of life, or may be too much of a…