Community Initiatives

Good look at dumpster diving in Brooklyn available on Aeon.

An Indigenous News organization with reporters in the Okanagan and Vancouver Island. Their tagline is: “Where your stories are heard, understood and respected.” Check them out here.

Came across their website (here) that describes a community-engaged learning course that involved a number of faculty, community organizations and over 100 undergraduate students. I found the [...]

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.