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Aug 30, 2020
4 min

Hey White People! We Are Sick of Your Tokenism

This week, August 23-29, 2020, has shown us yet again that black lives still don’t matter. Another unarmed black man, Jacob Blake, was...

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Not all Chains are Made of Iron, some are made of Tradition

Christina

Aug 1, 2020
4 min

Not all Chains are Made of Iron, some are made of Tradition

Sometime late last year, I came across a Facebook meme that defined tradition as “peer pressure from dead people”. I chuckled and shared...

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Interracial Relationships: Not all Rainbows and Butterflies

Christina

Jul 17, 2020
9 min

Interracial Relationships: Not all Rainbows and Butterflies

“It’s not that love doesn’t see colour; it just knows how to mix and match” - unknown Although I had a preferred “type” in the past, I...

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Emancipation, Trauma Triggers, and Racism in Canada:My Thoughts on Juneteenth 2020

Christina

Jun 30, 2020
6 min

Emancipation, Trauma Triggers, and Racism in Canada:My Thoughts on Juneteenth 2020

This Juneteenth, I stood with my skin folk in the US in celebrating their emancipation for the first time in my life. My country had...

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The complicity of the education system in racial oppression.

Christina

Jun 11, 2020
5 min

The complicity of the education system in racial oppression.

I had a distressing interaction with my white stepchild this weekend. She was picked up for our usual visitation period but, she seemed...

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