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• La Connexional Afro x Latin End of Year Party

  Funded 2019-2020 https://www.facebook.com/events/d41d8cd9/afro-x-latino-an-end-of-year-pre-festival-party/561455377731956/ From Funding Recipient: "The work that APIRG has been doing over the years and is still doing is nothing short of amazing! Having been one of their grant recipients for over 2 years now as UofA undergraduate students, La Connexional is extremely proud to have been able to contribute to the mission & vision of APIRG. We would like to take this opportunity to thank APIRG for the relentless and needed work they are doing in the community by allowing Marginalized folks to tell their stories!"

• Chinese Diaspora Sharing Circles

  Funded 2019-2021 Chinese Diaspora Sharing Circle is an open and inclusive dialogue for overseas Chinese people to safely share their opinions regarding cultural identity, social issues and their life in Canada. The group aims to engage and give Chinese youth ready to speak up and talk about the oppression and traumas faced by and to the Chinese community in Canada.

• El-Tawhid

  Funded 2020 El-Tawhid in partnership with The Muslim Feminist Collective are striving to uphold the values of speaking truth to power, acting against injustice, and living in relationship to the land at the core of Islam. MFC amplifies the voices of those who are doing justice work and offers a condemnation of injustice from an Islamic doctrinal and historical perspective. El-Tawhid strives to offer an inclusive space to pray and practice justice centered Islam with a community invested in dismantling systems of oppression. This space centers and exists for those whose identities exist at the margins of mainstream Islam including BIPoC and LGBTQ+ Muslims. Both virtual and physical spaces serve to hold Muslims, including ourselves, accountable to dismantling racism and patriarchy within ourselves, our communities, and social systems.