A blog by Sarah Schmidt. As a person of white privilege, working in a female and white-dominated profession of librarianship, listening and reading Vidya Shah while reflecting on the local and global events of the last few weeks’ left me with the need to sit, listen, and contemplate deeply on how to move forward, especially…

A blog by Bahareh Samsamiardekani. Canada’s first nursing school opened in 1874 in Ontario. The first baccalaureate nursing programs began in 1919 at the university of British Columbia. Black students were not permitted to attend nursing programs until 1984 (Jefferies, 2020). In the contemporary era, although racism is neglected in nursing curricula, black nursing students…

A blog by Sara Anne Petrucci. On March 27th, 2020 Ottawa-Carleton School Board Trustee, Donna Blackburn harassed a black student athlete playing basketball alone in a public park. She snapped a photo of the under-aged student and posted it onto her social media account stating, Apparently I have another title Park Patrol. This kid has…

A blog by Dan MacKinnon. In a brief moment away from the computer screen, I read an essay by Jill Lepore in this week’s New Yorker that strongly resonated with the readings…

A blog by Natalie Wainwright. I created this word cloud before getting started in order to flesh out the concepts that Dr. Hongyu Wang presents in her interview and articles. After getting my ideas down, I decided to look at Dr. Wang’s work through Bastille’s Flaws, which speaks to my personal relationship to her work,…

A blog by Ben Hudson. I loved history at school. I spent many afternoons cramped between the scratched desks of stuffy classrooms in old buildings, listening to my teacher, Mr. Crichton, sketch out the contours of the Cuban Missile Crisis or the Russian Revolution. On one such afternoon, the ceiling above Mr. Crichton’s desk collapsed…