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The role of solidarity when all you've known is scarcity
Today, on this auspicious day for the Tamil community (Happy Thai Pongal!) I thought I'd take a second to write about the importance of solidarity, even when all you've known is scarcity.
On how the world changed for Muslims after 9/11
I was barely one year old on September 11th, 2001 - sitting in front of the TV with my mother, awed by bright colours and loud noises. I don’t remember 9/11, and because I don’t wear a hijab and had never lived in North America until I moved for university, I didn’t feel myself turn into an enemy overnight in the same way that so many Muslims did immediately following the attacks. Instead, I grew up with the full knowledge and awareness that I was, for some reason that I couldn’t explain, an enemy to the West. I knew that border control officers trembled in fear at the sight of a nine year old Pakistani girl, and I knew not to speak Urdu in public. I knew to be careful, I just didn’t know why.
Silence as a Comms Strategy is not just inadequate, it is harmful.
My assumption is that the board made this decision not because there was a legitimate reason. Was she too 'different' from what you had experienced before? Difference is strength. Difference is power. Difference is what we need - not just in the nonprofit sector or in London, but in today's world.
Glass Ceiling, Glass Cliffs, and a Shard of Glass to the chest: Women in Leadership
On the recent firing of Mojdeh Cox from her role as President/CEO at Pillar Nonprofit in London Ontario.
On the Ousting of Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa
The President of Sri Lanka, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, as well as the PM, has been forced to resign after months of protests regarding his corrupt leadership that resulted in an economic crisis and country-wide shortages of essential goods and services that affected everyone in the country for months. But that isn’t the whole story of Gotabaya’s terror.