“You’re getting too dark – stay out of the sun.”
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“You’re getting too dark – stay out of the sun.”

A personal journal entry by Queer Pinay femme Anna Balagtas exploring internalized colourism rooted in Asian communities, the beauty of brownness, and her thoughts and experiences around dismantling anti-blackness within herself.

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revolutionary art & Radical Love
OPIRG Carleton OPIRG Carleton

revolutionary art & Radical Love

A compilation of work communicating artist Seher Ali’s values and visions around revolution and liberation – including pieces that explore radical love ethic and her envisioning of community, justice and the pursuit of freedom.

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Edible Cities? Food Forests Foster Community Connection & Healing
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Edible Cities? Food Forests Foster Community Connection & Healing

Beyond cultural and nutritional benefits, food forests foster more resilient cities by creating a reliable agricultural base that could be drawn upon during times of crisis, such as a pandemic or supply chain disruptions. Integrating food forests into communities across North America, in collaboration with Black and Indigenous farmers, might provide a stepping stone towards decolonizing and localizing food systems.

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Reimagining Planetary Governance & Responses to Climate Change in a Borderless World
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Reimagining Planetary Governance & Responses to Climate Change in a Borderless World

The migration of all other-than-human beings is borderless. All of this earth's beings--humans, animals, plants, rivers, bacteria-- have moved freely across this planet for millennia. There is great hope in knowing that we have lived longer without imperialism and colonization and, thus, without the concept of "countries" than with them.

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