BIPOC Webinar Series
Feminist Fiction as Resistance: A Conversation with Farzana Doctor (International Women's Day)
Past Events
Anti-racism and Lessons from Liberation: A Free Workshop with Udokam Iroegbu (for KPU employees)
March 24, 2:00pm, 2021
KPU’s Task Force on Anti-Racism is proud to present this opportunity for all KPU employees.
Anti-Racism and Lessons from Liberation is an immersive and in-depth workshop that exposes our complicity in racist power structures that exist all around us. This workshop is both personal and political: an exploration into bias, systemic oppression, language, cultural appropriation and intersectionality. Participants gain a deeper understanding of the manifestations of racism from systems of power to workplace microaggressions and most importantly gain the skills to speak up and combat racism in their communities.
For Udokam Iroegbu’s bio, please see: Meet the Team | Stratagem Virtual | July 2020 (welcometostratagem.com)
A Free Workshop for KPU Students - Treating Stories with Care: Appropriation, Ethics, and Telling Your Own Stories
March 11, 2021
KPU’s Task Force on Anti-Racism is proud to present this opportunity for all KPU students.
An increasing engagement with Indigenous and 2Spirit/Queer stories and perspectives presents important opportunities for learning and deepening relationships, but it also carries the potential for appropriation, tokenizing, and harm. This 90-minute workshop and discussion will focus on how participants can engage Indigenous narratives with ethical care and draw on their own personal stories to act in solidarity, address systems of oppression, and foster social change.
Facilitated by Shane Sable
Shane Sable is a 2spirit Gitxsan artist, activist, and facilitator whose work focuses primarily on rematriating Indigenous sexuality through burlesque and community-engaged art and cultural activities. Shane is the convening member of Virago Nation, Turtle Island’s first all-Indigenous burlesque collective and the 2Spirit Programmer at the Vancouver Queer Arts Festival.
Workshop with Udokam Iroegbu for KPU employees: Fundamentals of Anti-Oppression
February 18, 2021
Hosted by KPU’s Task Force on Antiracism
Fundamentals of Anti-oppression dives deeper than your typical diversity and inclusion workshop. In this workshop, participants are given the opportunity to explore systemic oppression, social justice, privilege, identity and allyship through a variety of engaging activities. Through self-reflection, community- based inquiry, lessons from history and collaborative problem solving, participants gain the knowledge and skills to view the world through an anti- oppressive lens.
A Zoom link will be forwarded to all registered participants a minimum of 2 days prior to the workshop.
As we have limited seats, please double check your calendar to ensure you can attend and if you realize you no longer can, please cancel your registration at least 3 working days before the start date by emailing us at tfa@kpu.ca so that we may offer the spot to someone else.
A Free Workshop for KPU Employees - Treating Stories with Care: Appropriation, Ethics, and Telling Your Own Stories
Feburary 11, 2021
KPU’s Task Force on Anti-Racism is proud to present this opportunity for all KPU employees.
An increasing engagement with Indigenous and 2Spirit/Queer stories and perspectives presents important opportunities for learning and deepening relationships, but it also carries the potential for appropriation, tokenizing, and harm. This 90-minute workshop and discussion will focus on how participants can engage Indigenous narratives with ethical care and draw on their own personal stories to act in solidarity, address systems of oppression, and foster social change.
Facilitated by Shane Sable
Shane Sable is a 2spirit Gitxsan artist, activist, and facilitator whose work focuses primarily on rematriating Indigenous sexuality through burlesque and community-engaged art and cultural activities. Shane is the convening member of Virago Nation, Turtle Island’s first all-Indigenous burlesque collective and the 2Spirit Programmer at the Vancouver Queer Arts Festival.
Hope in A Time of Climate Grief: A Conversation with Jenna Butler
October 29, 2020
Join us for a conversation with Jenna Butler who will speak about climate grief, trauma and recovery, farming, and beekeeping.
Dr. Jenna Butler is a Canadian poet, essayist, editor, and professor. She is the author of: three books of poetry; a collection of ecological essays, A Profession of Hope: Farming on the Edge of the Grizzly Trail; and the Arctic travelogue Magnetic North: Sea Voyage to Svalbard. Her newest book, Revery: A Year of Bees, is out with Wolsak and Wynn in October 2020.
Butler’s research into endangered environments has taken her from America’s Deep South to Ireland’s Ring of Kerry, and from volcanic Tenerife to the Arctic Circle onboard an ice-class masted sailing vessel, exploring the ways in which we impact the landscapes we call home. A woman of colour interested in multiethnic narratives of place, Butler teaches creative and environmental writing at Red Deer College in Alberta and runs an off-grid organic farm.