Don’t Call Me Resilient Podcast
1) The world is in crisis – what role should our universities be playing?
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...Show More
2) AI-generated influencers: A new wave of cultural exploitation?
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 v...Show More
3) Food as a tool of oppression
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 ...Show More
4) Don't Call Me Resilient Season 8 Trailer
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.
5) Don't Call Me Resilient Season 8 Teaser
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.
6) FLASHBACK: How to spark change within our public schools
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. Car...Show More
7) FLASHBACK: The dangers of hair relaxers
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...Show More
8) FLASHBACK: Why isn't anyone talking about who gets long COVID?
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 Resili...Show More
9) FLASHBACK: Colonialists used starvation as a tool of oppression
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 Ame...Show More
10) FLASHBACK: Palestine was never a land without people
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...Show More