Community Initiatives

Just found this site. In the Our Story, they state: “Wear Your Voice is a digital magazine for and by LGBTQIA+ Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) based in the United States. We [...]

From the Report’s Background: “Research 101 was a series of six weekly workshops (February to April 2018) to discuss research and ethics in the Downtown Eastside (DTES). These workshops emerged [...]

Have a look at an excellent resource from my colleague Dr. Katie Warfield and students from Kwantlen Polytechnic University. The site has tons of online lecture material, videos and links to [...]

A series of stories about being Black in Canada. Available here and a YouTube documentary by Asha Tomlinson, here.

Operated by my colleague, Dr. Melissa Munn, Okanagan College (a school I love) the site is an open-access, virtual library of prisoner created works. Available here.  

Great podcast on the role of libraries, freedom of speech, social activism and community engagement. Part of the Doc Project, the episode is available, here.

An interesting article in the LGBTQ Nation available here.

A partnership between the University of British Columbia and Foundations for Social Change launched the world’s first direct cash transfer program to empower people to move beyond homelessness in [...]

Alyssa Johnson (Soci BA) one of my students from the initial delivery of Soci 438 (2018) is now a law student at Queen’s. Her passion for and commitment to social justice continues in her [...]

This article from the National Observer (available here) highlights some of the work by my department colleague, Dr. Anelyse Weiler.