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Who is paying for this? I wonder if work plans are covering stuff like this over a real psychologist for mentally ill people. Horrifying.
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Infinite Oceans is in Waterloo, Ontario.
November 1 at 5:38 PM
WHOSE MULTICULTURALISM? // What if we spoke about the reality that multiculturalism in Canada is *still* an attempt to blend Black and Brown bodies into the white-dominant “norm”?
What if I said that Canada’s version of “multiculturalism” (that so many joyfully exclaim to be part of our “shared identity”) actually exists by “othering”?
What if, what has been meaningful to you, has been harmful to me?
Do you think that Black and Brown bodies embrace this Canadian story of the cultural mosaic and melting pot? Like we’re all just peacefully weaving our lives together? Or, does that story work to soothe and distract white-bodies?
How do we buy into this narrative that we live in this shimmering kaleidoscope-like mosaic, when we don’t see ourselves represented in most of our healthcare and wellness professionals? When our curriculum doesn’t know we exist or if we get a mention, it’s usually a story told through the lens of whiteness. Like we are people to be saved.
How do we trust these promises that we are a cultural mosaic, when pick-up trucks with national flags are running down our brothers and sisters and cousins and community members for living within their brown skin? Cause this looks like a pretty white mosaic to me.
Don’t be fooled, multiculturalism in Canada is a project with an agenda. Multiculturalism policy in this country was created by neoliberal and neoconservative parties to capitalize on the benefits of “diversity”, to prepare Canada to be successful in the world markets … not to foster a sense of belonging.
Racial justice created in a truly transformative and restorative way, is created by making space for people who don’t have a voice. True multiculturalism, in my perspective, speaks loudly and openly to the realities that our systems of education, of health, of economics and criminal justice serve some people and harm others.
There are multiple priorities in racial Justice - but, none of them are to integrate or assimilate. They are to change systems, to de-centre and re-centre, to amplify voices, to create belonging, to heal, to reclaim, to be.
November 1 at 5:38 PM
WHOSE MULTICULTURALISM? // What if we spoke about the reality that multiculturalism in Canada is *still* an attempt to blend Black and Brown bodies into the white-dominant “norm”?
What if I said that Canada’s version of “multiculturalism” (that so many joyfully exclaim to be part of our “shared identity”) actually exists by “othering”?
What if, what has been meaningful to you, has been harmful to me?
Do you think that Black and Brown bodies embrace this Canadian story of the cultural mosaic and melting pot? Like we’re all just peacefully weaving our lives together? Or, does that story work to soothe and distract white-bodies?
How do we buy into this narrative that we live in this shimmering kaleidoscope-like mosaic, when we don’t see ourselves represented in most of our healthcare and wellness professionals? When our curriculum doesn’t know we exist or if we get a mention, it’s usually a story told through the lens of whiteness. Like we are people to be saved.
How do we trust these promises that we are a cultural mosaic, when pick-up trucks with national flags are running down our brothers and sisters and cousins and community members for living within their brown skin? Cause this looks like a pretty white mosaic to me.
Don’t be fooled, multiculturalism in Canada is a project with an agenda. Multiculturalism policy in this country was created by neoliberal and neoconservative parties to capitalize on the benefits of “diversity”, to prepare Canada to be successful in the world markets … not to foster a sense of belonging.
Racial justice created in a truly transformative and restorative way, is created by making space for people who don’t have a voice. True multiculturalism, in my perspective, speaks loudly and openly to the realities that our systems of education, of health, of economics and criminal justice serve some people and harm others.
There are multiple priorities in racial Justice - but, none of them are to integrate or assimilate. They are to change systems, to de-centre and re-centre, to amplify voices, to create belonging, to heal, to reclaim, to be.
Infinite Oceans
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