Event Description
Join us for the December Equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging (EDIB) speaker series.
This session, Forged in Fire: The Enduring Strength and Resilience of Equity Deserving Groups, moves beyond the idea of individual resilience to examine the systemic forces that create minority stress. Using Minority Stress Theory and Dr. Kimberlé Crenshaw’s framework of intersectionality, the session explores how chronic, socially rooted stressors compound for students with multiple marginalized identities.
A key focus is the often-unseen emotional labour, cultural taxation, and racial battle fatigue placed on equity-deserving groups as they navigate systemic racism, colonialism, and prejudice.
Grounded in the BC context, the session connects these themes to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action and the In Plain Sight report. Participants will gain a structural lens and practical strategies for helping institutions shift from sources of harm to active contributors to safety, inclusion, and anti-oppressive practice.
Speaker: Frederick (FJ) Lawal
Lunch is included.