Don’t Call Me Resilient

Mar 27 2025 88 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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The world is in crisis – what role should our universities be playing?

Mar 27 2025 43 mins  
It’s hard not to categorize our present global moment as a crisis. And just when we think things can't get worse — they do. At a time when critical conversations in higher education are under attack worldwide, can Canadian universities rise to the challenge and be a force for good?

AI-generated influencers: A new wave of cultural exploitation?

Feb 20 2025 34 mins  
By now… you probably know what an “influencer” is – individuals with large, highly engaged social media followings who have the power to sway beliefs and purchasing decisions. But have you heard of virtual influencers? They’re like human influencers… only they’re not human. They’re characters brought to life by CGI and AI, designed to target demographic groups fro

Food as a tool of oppression

Jan 23 2025 36 mins  
Food is so much more than what we eat. It is, of course, nourishment — the food we put into our body to fuel ourselves. It can be joyful, like the the smell of pancakes wafting through the house on a Sunday morning, or when loved ones gather around a feast at the dinner table. It can also be deeply personal and defining, connecting us to ancestral history, and cultural and raci

We're back!

Jan 16 2025 1 mins  
Don't Call Me Resilient is coming back to your podcast feed this month with a whole new series! We’ve been hosting some live events and we’re starting to roll them out as episodes in our feed.

Don't Call Me Resilient Season 8 Teaser

Nov 07 2024 1 mins  
You may have noticed, Don’t Call Me Resilient hasn’t been in your feed lately. That’s because we’ve been busy behind the scenes working on a different format for the podcast.

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