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From stereotypes to sovereignty: How Indigenous media makers assert narrative control
Don’t Call Me Resilient - April 25, 2024 13:49 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsOver the last 30 years, there has been an exponential growth of Indigenous media and Indigenous media makers, especially here in Canada which has one of the largest repositories of Indigenous media. However, the road to get here hasn’t been easy. Indigenous filmmakers, producers, and artists hav...
The chilling effects of trying to report on the Israel-Gaza war
Don’t Call Me Resilient - April 18, 2024 13:55 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsMany news organizations have reported on the Israel-Gaza war. However, many journalists have criticized those same media organizations for how they have covered the conflict, and have spoken out against what they say is a stifling of Palestinian voices and perspectives. In today's episode, Vinit...
Asylum seekers from Gaza and Sudan face prejudiced policies and bureaucratic hurdles
Don’t Call Me Resilient - April 11, 2024 13:59 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsAround the world, people are being forced to leave their homes in droves. We are seeing it happen in Gaza, as Israeli forces continue to wage war. And in Sudan, which has also been wracked by war. Then there are the people fleeing political or economic strife - like those living in Haiti, or V...
Beyoncé’s ‘Cowboy Carter’ transmits joy, honours legends and challenges a segregated industry
Don’t Call Me Resilient - April 04, 2024 14:52 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThe release of Beyoncé’s new album, Cowboy Carter, was a much awaited event for a lot of us. There was much anticipation about this being a country album — and a lot of talk about the resistance some radio stations had and still have to that idea. That’s because country music is considered "wh...
Colonialists used starvation as a tool of oppression
Don’t Call Me Resilient - March 28, 2024 13:30 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIn today's episode, we're continuing the conversation we started last week about using forced famine as a tool to control land, resources and people. For centuries, starvation has been effectively used by colonial powers to control populations, to acquire land and the wealth that comes with tha...
Starvation is a weapon of war and Gazans are paying the price
Don’t Call Me Resilient - March 21, 2024 14:06 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsOn Monday, the European Union's foreign policy chief accused Israel of using starvation as a weapon of war and provoking famine in Gaza. They were some of the strongest words against Israel we have heard from a western power about the situation in Gaza since October. They come on the heels of ...
Nine years after #OscarsSoWhite, a look at what's changed
Don’t Call Me Resilient - March 14, 2024 17:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsOn Sunday, nine years after #OscarsSoWhite, millions of us tuned in to the 96th annual Academy Awards — some to simply take in the spectacle. And some to see how much had changed. The hashtag #OscarsSoWhite started after many people noticed that, for a second year in a row, all nominees for fou...
Don't Call Me Resilient Season 7 Trailer
Don’t Call Me Resilient - March 07, 2024 14:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsFollow us today so you don't miss an episode.
'American Fiction,' is a scathing satire that challenges pop-culture stereotypes of Blackness
Don’t Call Me Resilient - December 14, 2023 14:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsMonk is the lead character of the new movie "American Fiction," which is based on the 2001 novel "Erasure" by Percival Everett. Monk is a Black man but never feels 'Black' enough: he graduated from Harvard, his siblings are doctors, he doesn't play basketball and he writes literary novels. In f...
The Conversation Weekly: Kenya at 60 -- the patriotic choral music used to present one version of history
Don’t Call Me Resilient - December 13, 2023 16:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIn this episode which we're running in full, host Gemma Ware speaks with Doseline Kiguru, a research associate in cultural and literary production in Africa at the University of Bristol in the UK, who has co-published research on the history of choral music and the role it plays in Kenyan nation...
Dear politicians: To solve our food bank crisis, curb corporate greed and implement basic income
Don’t Call Me Resilient - December 07, 2023 14:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsYou may have noticed that food bank lines have grown exponentially this year. In Toronto alone, the number of people who use food banks has doubled since last year and nationwide, the numbers using food banks have jumped by 32 percent from last year and 78 per cent since 2019. And those who ar...
Why are school-aged boys so attracted to hateful ideologies?
Don’t Call Me Resilient - November 30, 2023 17:54 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThe idea for today's episode started with local Toronto kids, who were reporting experiencing sexist, homophobic and racist attitudes in the classroom, especially from the boys. The research shows they are not alone; the rise in far right ideologies globally has deeply affected school-age stude...
The potential of psychedelics to heal our racial traumas
Don’t Call Me Resilient - November 23, 2023 14:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsWhen a lot of us think about psychedelics, we think about magic mushrooms - and hallucinatory drug trips. But the concept of psychedelics as a tool in therapy is making its way into the mainstream. Online stores have popped up selling psilocybin capsules promising to boost focus. And on a more...
Palestine was never a ‘land without a people'
Don’t Call Me Resilient - November 16, 2023 14:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsAs violence continues to erupt in Gaza, and more than 200 hostages taken by Hamas on Oct. 7 remain missing, many of us are seeking to better understand the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that has been raging for decades. Some of us assume that the violence between Jewish Israelis a...
State of Georgia using extreme legal measures to quell ‘Cop City’ dissenters
Don’t Call Me Resilient - November 09, 2023 14:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsEarlier this week, nearly five dozen people appeared in a courthouse outside Atlanta, Georgia to answer criminal racketeering charges brought against them by the state. The charges are related to protests against a planned paramilitary police and fire services training facility nicknamed Cop Cit...
How journalists tell Buffy Sainte-Marie’s story matters – explained by a '60s Scoop survivor
Don’t Call Me Resilient - November 02, 2023 13:58 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsWhen the Buffy Sainte-Marie news broke last week, people were stunned. A CBC investigation was accusing the legendary singer-songwriter of lying about her Indigenous roots. Sainte-Marie had already come out on social media and said she had been claimed by the Piapot Cree First Nation in Saskat...
Why the Israel-Gaza conflict is so hard to talk about
Don’t Call Me Resilient - October 26, 2023 13:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIt's hard to escape the news coming out of the Middle East. It's everywhere. And it's excruciating to take it all in. First came the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israel. 1,400 people were viciously attacked and murdered and at least 200 more were kidnapped and taken hostage. Then came the retaliati...
How corporate landlords are eroding affordable housing -- and prioritizing profits over human rights
Don’t Call Me Resilient - October 19, 2023 13:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsEverybody knows it and almost everyone feels it: we’re in the grips of a major housing crisis. Home ownership is out of reach for so many people and for renters, units are hard to find and expensive. It seems everywhere you turn these days, there’s another rent strike. One of the factors driving...
Detangling the roots and health risks of hair relaxers
Don’t Call Me Resilient - October 12, 2023 13:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsFor decades, North American Black women have been using hair relaxers to help them fit into mainstream workplaces and the European standards of beauty that continue to dominate them. More recently, research has linked these relaxers to cancer and reproductive health issues - and a spate of law...
Why are brown and Black people supporting the far right?
Don’t Call Me Resilient - October 05, 2023 13:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThe Republican Party in the United States has moved farther right in recent years. And as it has, you would think racialized Americans might be distancing themselves from it and its policies. But at last week’s GOP Primary presidential debates, three of the seven people on stage were candidates...
Inside the search for the unmarked graves of children lost to Indian Residential Schools
Don’t Call Me Resilient - September 28, 2023 13:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsAs we approach the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we take you inside the ongoing quest to document the children who died in Canada's Indian Residential Schools system. Vinita speaks to Terri Cardinal, director of Indigenous Initiatives at MacEwan University, about the search she led ...
Trailer - Don't Call Me Resilient S6
Don’t Call Me Resilient - September 21, 2023 13:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsHere at Don’t Call Me Resilient, we’re busy prepping new episodes for you … Each week, we’ll be taking our sharply focused anti-racist lens to the news stories unfolding around us. We'll be talking to experts, activists and people living these stories … to bring you a deeply contextual view of w...
Indiana Jones's last ride: A legacy to celebrate or bury?
Don’t Call Me Resilient - June 29, 2023 14:27 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsI love watching a good adventure movie, especially at the start of summer. I have some great memories of eating popcorn in the local suburban movie theatre while we watched aliens take over a spaceship and a group of kids hunt for long-lost treasure in an underground cave. At the same time, eve...
Widespread use of Ozempic for weight loss could change how we view fatness
Don’t Call Me Resilient - June 22, 2023 14:17 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIt seems like everyone you talk to has considered taking Ozempic, the drug originally created as a diabetes treatment, but now being used as a weight-loss method. Ever since it arrived in Canada, it’s been in incredibly high demand. While Ozempic may be just the next in a long line of get-thin...
Why preserving Indigenous languages is so critical to culture
Don’t Call Me Resilient - June 15, 2023 16:16 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsLanguage, if we are not thinking about it, can be just a way to get from place A to B, a way to order lunch or a way to pass an exam. But language is much more than a way to communicate with words. This is especially true if you have had your language forcibly removed from you, like the thousa...
Indian PM Modi is expected to get a rockstar welcome in the U.S. How much is the diaspora fuelling him?
Don’t Call Me Resilient - June 08, 2023 15:30 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsOn June 22, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will make his first official state visit to the United States. And if his visits to Australia last month, to Canada in 2015 and to Texas in 2019 are any indication, he’ll be given a rockstar welcome. U.S. President Joe Biden has already joked that...
A trans scholar and activist explains why trans rights are under attack
Don’t Call Me Resilient - June 01, 2023 14:07 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThis year we’ve seen an aggressive push to implement anti-trans legislation across the United States. There are currently more than 400 active anti-trans bills across the country. Some legislation denies gender-affirming care to youth – and criminalizes those health-care providers that attempt ...
A 5th generation New Yorker traces her family history and finds the roots of anti-Asian violence - and Asian resistance
Don’t Call Me Resilient - May 25, 2023 12:53 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIn this episode, author and CUNY professor Ava Chin, a 5th generation Chinese New Yorker, discusses her new book, Mott Street: A Chinese American Family’s Story of Exclusion and Homecoming. The book artfully explores themes of exclusion as it relates to all Chinese Americans, plus personally fo...
Decolonize your garden: This long weekend, dig into the complicated roots of gardening
Don’t Call Me Resilient - May 18, 2023 13:23 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThe May long weekend is the unofficial start of summer. And for those of you with home gardens or access to community space, this is the weekend to dust off your gardening tools and visit the garden centre for the growing season ahead. As we approach the start of gardening season, it’s good tim...
More than 60 per cent of incarcerated women are mothers
Don’t Call Me Resilient - May 11, 2023 18:16 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsMother’s Day is just a few days away. It can be a complicated day. For some, it could mean a bouquet of flowers or a breakfast in bed. For others, it can mean mourning the loss of a loved one or dealing with a haunted past. And still — for others — like the 66 per cent of incarcerated women in p...
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