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5 Considerations for National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation is for non-Indigenous folks to sit with the truth and reflect on the work that has to be done – not just on Sept 30th, but every day of the year. The problem is, on October 1st, most non-Indigenous folks take off their orange shirts and go back to their day-to-day lives, ignoring Indigenous peoples and our countri’s violence towards them.
The Queen is Dead, God Save the People
Look, we're clearly not royalists, but we do have empathy for the Queen's family, and even for her subjects who loved her. What sucks is that same empathy is rarely reciprocated to the global majority (BIPOC) whose families and ancestors experienced (and continue to experience) violence and harm because of the Queen and her family.
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.