It's not Just Mental Health if it's not Just
If companies are truly committed to mental health), they should start by taking an honest, trauma-aware, JEDI-informed view of how they work
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Transformative ideas on Justice, Equity, Decolonization and Inclusion, and their intersection with wealth and business.
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- Oct 19, 2022
- 9 min
The Social Balance Sheet: Are Your Employees Assets or Expenses?
There was a time when businesses wanted women to have babies: the time of slavery, when we treated PROPERTY better than we treated PEOPLE.
- May 12, 2022
- 7 min
Anti-Asian Racism: When My Food Becomes Your Fear Factor
They weren’t eating the food I love in appreciation. They were eating it as a gross-out challenge.
- Mar 27, 2022
- 4 min
It’s About Racial Equity and Empathy, Not Representation
Race matters. Racialized experience matters. It matters because of the empathy and inclusion that can only come from shared experiences.
- Mar 7, 2022
- 6 min
Why I Pulled my Changing Lenses Podcast off Spotify
“It’s about my integrity. It’s about being who I am inside aligning with who I am outside." - India Arie.
- Feb 16, 2022
- 7 min
A Case Study in Privilege: Black Hair Discrimination and Legalization
Just because something isn’t technically illegal, doesn’t mean it’s legal – and it definitely doesn’t mean it’s ethical.
- Feb 15, 2022
- 4 min
Kingian Nonviolence vs. the Violent Trucker Takeover
5 Examples of Nonviolent Action that Led to Real Social Change, in Contrast to the Violence of the Ottawa Occupation
- Oct 29, 2021
- 6 min
Colonial Consequences: Race-on-Race Racism
Almost every country outside of Europe and Great Britain has been colonized at one point; and the impacts of colonization are ongoing.
- Jun 30, 2021
- 5 min
Cancel or Celebrate Canada Day 2021?
How about commemorating instead? Better yet - how about letting Indigenous people decide? Today is the 20th and final day of sharing the...
- Jun 29, 2021
- 5 min
This Hits Home – Church Apologies, Reconciliation, and UNDRIP
Today's CTAs are particularly convicting for me, because I’m a practicing Christian. So let me start by saying, I’m sorry.
- Jun 18, 2021
- 3 min
TRC CTAs 43-45 & 47: Land from an Indigenous perspective
Day 11 of sharing the 94 Calls to Action (CTAs) in response to the Residential Schools. CTAs 43-45 & 47: Land and Reconciliation.
- Jun 11, 2021
- 3 min
TRC CTAs 32-36: Mental health and trauma intersects with justice for Indigenous peoples
Important examples of the need to look at justice, equity, diversity and inclusion for Indigenous people with an intersectional lens.
- Jun 10, 2021
- 2 min
TRC CTAs 25-31: Justice for Indigenous peoples
Day 7 of sharing the 94 Calls to Action (CTAs) in response to the Residential Schools. Calls for Justice - Part 1.
- Jun 5, 2021
- 2 min
TRC CTAs 11-21: Healthcare rights for Indigenous peoples - remembering Joyce Echaquan
Day 5. I think of Joyce Echaquan, the Atikamekw mother of 7 who died in a Quebec hospital while being verbally abused by staff.
- Mar 8, 2021
- 6 min
Women Can. Women Do. Women Shouldn’t Have To.
My mom is amazing. She raised me, and worked, and sacrificed. She is an immigrant woman who got things done. But I wish she didn’t have to.
- Nov 30, 2020
- 6 min
What’s in a Name?
Them: "What’s your name?"
Me: "Rosie."
Them: "And what’s your Chinese name?
Can anyone else relate to this?
- Nov 9, 2020
- 6 min
With Truth Comes Freedom
We are in prison. Not a physical prison. Our way of thinking, how we see and interpret the world, are imprisoned.
- Oct 17, 2020
- 6 min
Accepting the Truth: My Dark Side
"Drawing from some inner well of strength, however difficult he found it to accept, he had to accept it. It was the truth.”
- Oct 6, 2020
- 4 min
Sword of Truth: Facing my Racism
“Abruptly he saw another side to himself. He recoiled in horror from what he was seeing. He could not accept it. He could never accept it!”
- Aug 28, 2020
- 4 min
Systemic exclusion through the lens of a short person
If you’re not sure if systemic discrimination exists, or how to define it – it’s probably because the system was built for you.
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