It's not Just Mental Health if it's not Just
If companies are truly committed to mental health), they should start by taking an honest, trauma-aware, JEDI-informed view of how they work
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Oct 19, 20229 min read
The Social Balance Sheet: Are Your Employees Assets or Expenses?
There was a time when businesses wanted women to have babies: the time of slavery, when we treated PROPERTY better than we treated PEOPLE.
Sep 15, 202210 min read
“Doing Your Job IS Meeting Expectations”…(Unless You’re the Queen)
How Bias, Abundance and Scarcity Affect Performance: why privileged people are more likely to get high ratings.
May 12, 20227 min read
Anti-Asian Racism: When My Food Becomes Your Fear Factor
They weren’t eating the food I love in appreciation. They were eating it as a gross-out challenge.
Mar 27, 20224 min read
It’s About Racial Equity and Empathy, Not Representation
Race matters. Racialized experience matters. It matters because of the empathy and inclusion that can only come from shared experiences.
Mar 7, 20226 min read
Why I Pulled my Changing Lenses Podcast off Spotify
“It’s about my integrity. It’s about being who I am inside aligning with who I am outside." - India Arie.
Feb 16, 20227 min read
A Case Study in Privilege: Black Hair Discrimination and Legalization
Just because something isn’t technically illegal, doesn’t mean it’s legal – and it definitely doesn’t mean it’s ethical.
Feb 15, 20224 min read
Kingian Nonviolence vs. the Violent Trucker Takeover
5 Examples of Nonviolent Action that Led to Real Social Change, in Contrast to the Violence of the Ottawa Occupation
Oct 28, 20216 min read
Colonial Consequences: Race-on-Race Racism
Almost every country outside of Europe and Great Britain has been colonized at one point; and the impacts of colonization are ongoing.
Jun 30, 20215 min read
Cancel or Celebrate Canada Day 2021?
How about commemorating instead? Better yet - how about letting Indigenous people decide? Today is the 20th and final day of sharing the...
Jun 28, 20215 min read
This Hits Home – Church Apologies, Reconciliation, and UNDRIP
Today's CTAs are particularly convicting for me, because I’m a practicing Christian. So let me start by saying, I’m sorry.
Jun 18, 20213 min read
TRC CTAs 43-45 & 47: Land from an Indigenous perspective
Day 11 of sharing the 94 Calls to Action (CTAs) in response to the Residential Schools. CTAs 43-45 & 47: Land and Reconciliation.
Jun 11, 20213 min read
TRC CTAs 32-36: Mental health and trauma intersects with justice for Indigenous peoples
Important examples of the need to look at justice, equity, diversity and inclusion for Indigenous people with an intersectional lens.
Jun 10, 20212 min read
TRC CTAs 25-31: Justice for Indigenous peoples
Day 7 of sharing the 94 Calls to Action (CTAs) in response to the Residential Schools. Calls for Justice - Part 1.
Jun 4, 20212 min read
TRC CTAs 11-21: Healthcare rights for Indigenous peoples - remembering Joyce Echaquan
Day 5. I think of Joyce Echaquan, the Atikamekw mother of 7 who died in a Quebec hospital while being verbally abused by staff.
Nov 30, 20206 min read
What’s in a Name?
Them: "What’s your name?"
Me: "Rosie."
Them: "And what’s your Chinese name?
Can anyone else relate to this?
Nov 9, 20206 min read
With Truth Comes Freedom
We are in prison. Not a physical prison. Our way of thinking, how we see and interpret the world, are imprisoned.
Oct 17, 20206 min read
Accepting the Truth: My Dark Side
"Drawing from some inner well of strength, however difficult he found it to accept, he had to accept it. It was the truth.”
Oct 6, 20204 min read
Sword of Truth: Facing my Racism
“Abruptly he saw another side to himself. He recoiled in horror from what he was seeing. He could not accept it. He could never accept it!”
Aug 28, 20204 min read
Systemic exclusion through the lens of a short person
If you’re not sure if systemic discrimination exists, or how to define it – it’s probably because the system was built for you.
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