systemic racism
What about Blackness?
February 20, 2021Written by: Linda Kanyamuna, SFU Student What about Black Students? “What about Blackness? What about Blackness? What about Blackness?” repeats Bilan Arte, a Black-Muslim feminist and Canadian Labour Congress’ representative for human rights. She was one of three empowering and incredibly decorated panelists to start off the Black Student Experience in Canada panel on February 4. Hosted by the National Black Students’ Caucus of the Canadian Federation of Students, The Black Student Experience in Canada consisted of four main events touching on topics from solidarity between movements to organizing and taking action as Black students. The day-long virtual event aimed…
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Dr. David Chariandy’s works show that both fiction and nonfiction are vital to understanding racism
October 6, 2020By: Molly Lorette, Peak Associate On August 20, SFU’s own Dr. David Chariandy, an English professor, was featured in USA Today’s “100 Black novelists and fiction writers you should read.” The list is prefaced with the notion that, “Nonfiction books…
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Black Lives Matter protests held in Vancouver
June 15, 2020Written by: Paige Riding, News Writer Photos: Kim Regala While the Black Lives Matter movement continues in the United States and around the world, Vancouver citizens have also taken to the streets in the form of anti-racism protests. Two stationary…
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Canada isn’t the moral haven some want to claim it is
June 13, 2020By: Madeleine Chan, Staff Writer A few weeks ago, #MeanwhileInCanada was trending on Twitter with people comparing the anti-racism protests (fronted by George Floyd’s murder) to the supposed non-existence of similar racialized police violence in Canada. The hashtag has since been…
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