Don’t Call Me Resilient

Sep 12 2024 83 ep. 29 mins 1.1k
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Host Vinita Srivastava dives into conversations with experts and real people to make sense of the news, from an anti-racist perspective. From The Conversation Canada.

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FLASHBACK: How to spark change within our public schools

Sep 12 2024 28 mins  
Even before COVID-19, education experts were sounding the alarm about the future of racialized children in our schools. And the COVID-19 pandemic has only underscored – even deepened – the divide. Carl James, professor of education at York University and Kulsoom Anwer, a high school teacher who works out of one of Toronto's most marginalized neighborhoods, Jane and Finch, join

FLASHBACK: The dangers of hair relaxers

Aug 29 2024 29 mins  
In this reflective and personal episode, Professor Cheryl Thompson of Toronto Metropolitan University and author of “Beauty in a Box” untangles the complicated history of hair relaxers for Black women - and the health risks now linked to them. This episode is part of our Summer Flashback: it originally aired in October 2023. It was recommended by DCMR Associate Producer, Danni

FLASHBACK: Why isn't anyone talking about who gets long COVID?

Aug 15 2024 26 mins  
Long COVID, which impacts one in every five people who've had the virus, and especially Black and Latinx women, has been called a mass-disabling event. Join us for this episode of Don't Call Me Resilient as we speak with Margot Gage Witvliet who has insights into long COVID both as an epidemiologist and a patient. This episode is part of our Summer Flashback: it originally aired i

FLASHBACK: Colonialists used starvation as a tool of oppression

Aug 01 2024 30 mins  
Vinita speaks to two famine scholars about the use of starvation as a tool in the colonizer's playbook through two historic examples - the decimation of Indigenous populations in the Plains, North America and the 1943 famine in Bengal, India. This episode is part of our Summer Flashback: it originally aired in March 2024. This flashback was recommended by Vinita Srivastava, the Ho

FLASHBACK: Palestine was never a land without people

Jul 18 2024 41 mins  
Modern settlers to Palestine viewed the desert as something they needed to “make bloom.” But the land was already blooming, thanks to Palestinian agricultural systems that have long been overlooked by colonial powers. This episode is part of our Summer Flashback: it originally aired in November 2023. It was recommended by DCMR Associate Producer, Ateqah Khaki. Listen to the e

FLASHBACK: Shattering the myth of Canada 'the good' -- How we treat migrant workers who put food on our tables

Jul 04 2024 35 mins  
Documentary filmmaker and OCAD University associate professor Min Sook Lee exposes how migrant workers have been treated in Canada, especially during COVID-19. In the conversation, Lee shatters any remaining myths about “Canada the Good.” Just how do Canadians treat the workers who put food on our tables? Lee has been documenting the voices of migrant farm workers in Canada for

FLASHBACK: Indigenous land defenders on why they fight invasive development despite facing armed forces

Jun 20 2024 37 mins  
Two Indigenous Land defenders from two different nations as well as generations, join us to explain why they work to protect the Land against invasive development and why their work is necessary for everyone’s survival. Ellen Gabriel, a human rights activist and artist well known for her role during the 1990 Oka crisis, and Anne Spice, a professor at TMU, discuss the importance a

Some of our favourite episodes you may have missed

Jun 13 2024 37 mins  
In this bonus episode, you’ll meet some of the producers who help make this podcast to revisit some of our favourite episodes from past seasons.

Trailer: Summer flashback season ahead

Jun 06 2024 1 mins  
Our seventh season is officially over, but we will be back next week for a special bonus episode. You’ll get to meet some of our amazing producers who work hard behind the scenes to produce this podcast.

As war rages in Sudan, community resistance groups sustain life

May 30 2024 38 mins  
In Sudan, amid a growing humanitarian crisis caused by a year-long and ongoing war, neighbourhood organizations have stepped in as first responders, and to lead the call for peace.