Sandra Lovelace Nicholas, a Maliseet woman from New Brunswick’s Tobique Nation, has been a driving force in securing rights for Aboriginal women in Canada, and is also a wonderful example of the impact one woman can have when she sets out to correct an injustice. Sandra lost her status when she married a white man, and…
deb singh is a feminist activist warrior. She is a queer, Indo-Caribbean, working class, non-disAbled woman, who is a settler on TurtleIsland. deb has involved herself in community organizing, anti-violence work, anti-racism work and queer/trans activism for the past 13 years in Toronto. deb has engaged in organizations such as the Toronto Rape Crisis Centre/Multicultural…
Gein Wong is an interdisciplinary playwright, director, composer, poet and video artist whose works focus on obvious things like gender, class and race, as well as things a little less obvious like gender, class and race. She is a member of the Canadian Stage Company’s 2012 Director and Designer program, as well as the HERE…
Sheila Sampath has been crafting creative for social good since 2003. Former chair of the board at the Toronto Rape Crisis Centre/Multi-cultural Women Against Rape, she has a background in grassroots anti-oppression activism, which she incorporates into her strategic approach to graphic design and popular education as principal and creative director at The Public (www.thepublicstudio.ca)…
Thea Lim is a writer and a cultural critic focusing on the intersection of race, gender, sexuality and pop culture. Her work has been published by the Guardian, Salon, Bitch Magazine, Jezebel, the Utne Reader, Canadian Women’s Studies\les cahiers de la femme, and in multiple university textbooks, including Opposing Viewpoints: Canada and Canadian Content. She has been cited by the Christian Science Monitor, the Atlantic and Roger Ebert. She…
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. Pushcart Prize and Lambda Award nominee Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a queer chronically ill Sri Lankan writer, teacher and cultural worker. The author of Consensual Genocide (TSAR 2006)and Love Cake (TSAR 2011) and co-editor of The Revolution Starts At Home: Confronting Intimate Violence in Activist Communities (South End, 2011), her work examines queer of color lives, decolonization, disability and…
May Lui is a writer, blogger, feminist and anti-oppression educator and trainer. She is a light-skinned mixed-race Asian ciswoman with a deep commitment and interest in promoting individual, social and global change through radical anti-racist anti-oppression adult education. She has over 15 years of experience theorizing and applying issues of feminism, anti-racism and anti-oppression to…
Unlike the United States, where there is at least an admission of the fact that racism exists and has a history, in this country one is faced with a stupefying innocence. — DIONNE BRAND On November 8th 1946 Ms. Viola Desmond decided to go and see a movie while she was waiting for her car…
Sylvia D. Hamilton is a multi awarding Nova Scotian filmmaker and writer who is known for her documentary films as well as her publications, public presentations and extensive volunteer work with artistic, social and cultural organizations on the local and national levels. She was born in Beechville, Nova Scotia, a community founded by the Black…
Florence Li is a community worker deeply committed to anti-racist and anti-oppressive principles and practices and currently serves as the Interim Executive Director at the Chinese Canadian National Council Toronto Chapter (CCNCTO). She has worked with immigrant communities in several capacities, from providing frontline support at a settlement agency in Scarborough, to teaching conversational English…
