TORONTO REGIONAL HSJCC VIRTUAL LUNCH & LEARN: Anti-Racism Series Session 2

The Colour of Justice: Recognizing Indigenous, Black, and Racialized Voices Within the Context of Mental Health and Justice Services

“I do not want to say the wrong thing”: A Facilitated Discussion Addressing Systemic Racism, Racial Trauma, and White Supremacy

Presented by:

Rai Reece, PhD (she/her), Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU). Dr. Reece is an interdisciplinary scholar-abolitionist whose work broadly examines how carceral logics are relationally organized by racial capitalism and white supremacy, and how carceral processes in Canada are maintained by historical and contemporary narratives of white settler colonial violence. Since 2005 she has been involved in anti-prison work with prisoners and ex-prisoners and has facilitated numerous facilitation workshops in the areas of anti-racism and anti-oppression for community agencies. Her most recent publication is titled, “It’s not just about work and living conditions: The Underestimation of the Covid-19 Pandemic for Black Canadian Women” (2021), with Dr. Melanie Knight and Renee Ferguson, and a forthcoming chapter titled “Black and Racialized Women in the Canadian Criminal Justice System” (October 2022) will be published in the third edition of Women and the Canadian Criminal Justice System (eds. Barker and Tavcer).

Session 2 – Thursday, November 24th

12:00pm - 2:00 pm (Eastern Time)

As a follow-up from the first session, this session will provide a hands-on engagement with many of the outcomes from the first session. Practical tools, activities, learnings, and strategies for working through operational planning and implementation of anti-racism and anti-oppression work within the organization.

Note: To attend session 2 you need to have attended session 1 (https://www.eenetconnect.ca/ev...ism-series-session-1, click the link for registration for session 2: https://forms.office.com/r/QQbVGWvt8A

If you have any questions, contact Domenica Dileo at ddileo@cmhato.org