by Roberta Timothy | May 8, 2019 | Article
9 ways racism impacts maternal health As we celebrate our moms and mommies this Mother’s Day, let us not forget that for some, motherhood is not an enjoyed privilege. For many Black, Indigenous and racialized women in Turtle Island (North America) and globally...
by Roberta Timothy | Mar 7, 2019 | Article
What is intersectionality? All of who I am “There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.” ― Audre Lorde (Sister Outsider) Last year at the Golden Globes, many Hollywood actors got on stage in an act of unity for...
by Roberta Timothy | Jan 12, 2019 | Article
Living and breathing while Black: Racial profiling and other acts of violence Recently, Shelby McPhee, a young Black male graduate student presenting at the largest Canadian academic gathering, the 88th annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, hosted by...
by Roberta Timothy | Nov 28, 2018 | Article
World AIDS Day: Let’s stop criminalizing HIV status In Canada, people living with HIV can be charged with not disclosing their HIV status to their sexual partners. Since 2004, there has been a marked increase in the number of people who have faced charges related to...
by Roberta Timothy | Oct 15, 2018 | Article
As cannabis is legalized, let’s remember amnesty Weed, spliff, cannabis, joint, blunt, Mary Jane, ganja, reefer, marijuana, pot: no matter what you call it, it is almost legal in Canada. Many will benefit from the new right to grow, sell or smoke legally and freely....
by Roberta Timothy | Jun 14, 2018 | Article
Raising hope: Parenting in an anti-Black environment The world my children live in is divided in two, as Frantz Fanon wrote in 1952 in The Wretched of the Earth. It is a world divided in endless opposites, a world still pained by the atrocities of the past, the...
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