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Sumaiya Tufail to deliver TEDxSFU talk on poetry as resistance

By: Saije Rusimovici, Staff Writer Editor’s note: The Peak would like to note that Josh Ralla, one of our staff members, is an executive director of TEDxSFU, but had no involvement in writing this article.  Sumaiya Tufail began the Slam Poetry Club at SFU last summer as a way of creating a safe space for racialized artists to express themselves through poetry. Growing up in Surrey, Tufail was inspired by her Grade 11 Humanities teacher after introducing her to spoken word poetry as a way for students to speak their truths.  Tufail found it “a cool way to express [her]…

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