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The Meaning behind my Creative Piece “We all can be Activists”
My Creative Song is a form of resistance against systems of oppression in society that perpetuates Racism, Colonialism, and Sexism. I...
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Poison
My breasts hold the poison of colonial and patriarchal development. My breasts hold lead from paint in the house I grew up in. My breasts...
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Coexisting
she stands here to fight To fight for her people To fight for the voiceless To fight for those who have been silenced she fights for the...
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Becoming an Activist
I was not sure what I was expecting when I joined this course, all that I knew was that I did not consider myself an activist because I...
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A Second Look
The Activists and Activisms course has allowed me to see that there are many different forms of activism. The course material gave me a...
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AI Beck blog post
Image: Tattoo art by Vegas. Hi readers! My name is Alexandria Beck, I am a straight cis-white woman from a low income household. As I...
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Reproductive justice
Reproductive justice has always been an important social justice issue to me. This piece depicts an abstract line art of a fetus and...
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Eyes
They say that the eyes are a window into the soul. But my eyes are as dark as an endless abyss, so what does that say about what lies...
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Rachel Crouse's blog post
Hello! My name is Rachel Crouse, and I have been tuning into this course from Dundas, Ontario, which has been built on the traditional...
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Robin Brownlee's blog post
Image retrieved from rappler.com The dominant ideas of what activism should look like are defined by images of angry protestors,...
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