Anti-Racist Educator Reads

In the final episode of Why Indigenous Literatures Matter, Anika Guthrie and Colinda talk about finding common ground and understanding the ruptures on the lands we inhabit. Re-storying is essential to our ability to live, work and thrive together.

Tesa Fiddler joins Colinda for episode 2 discussing Why Indigenous Literatures Matter. Imagination grounds the conversation on kinship, becoming good ancestors and creating a different future in public education.

In the first episode discussing Daniel Heath Justice's Why Indigenous Literatures Matter, Nancy O'Donnell joins Colinda to talk about how Indigenous literatures engage with colonialism without being defined by it. They talk about how stories can heal, how we learn to be human, and how Indigenous stories might build possibilities for the present and futures of the students we serve.

Grace Garlow joins Colinda for the final episode of #FireNowVoicEd They talk about the dynamic nature of racism, the veneer of being a tolerant nation, and the collective responsibility for change.

On episode 2 of #FireNowVoicEd judy mckeown joins Colinda to talk about Part III: Lessons from History, Connections across Spaces. They talk about racism and whiteness as systems within education and how knowing the history of colonization and white supremacy on these lands must take place before real lasting change can occur.

Phiona Lloyd-Henry joins Colinda on this first episode of The Fire Now: Anti-Racist Scholarship in Times of Explicit Racial Violence. Covering Parts 1 & 2, they discuss practising care, the violence of whiteness and what it means to think of yourself as an educated person.

On this special episode, author of A Mind Spread Out on the Ground Alicia Elliott joins Jerica, April and Colinda to talk about the history of Canada as a history of racism, using her book as a classroom resource and calls to action for educators.

In episode 3 of #MindSpreadOutVoicEd April Waters speaks with Colinda about the last essays in the book, about identity, stereotypes and extractivism, and how these play out in education systems.

Anika Guthrie joins Colinda for episode 2 of #MindSpreadOutVoicEd talking about Indigenous health, the processes of anti-racism & decolonial love in schools and what it really means to teach Indigenous truths.

In the first episode discussing Alicia Elliott's A Mind Spread Out on the Ground, Jerica Fraser joins Colinda to talk about settler collective amnesia, dark matter and teaching with love.