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Funded 2021 Play, an experiment in multi-lingual storytelling. "Mūkonzi Mūsyoki’s great script brought to life by such truly fantastic acting sees this up there with the best of this year’s festival." - Edmonton Journal

How To Get A Thigh Gap

Funded 2021-2022 How To Get A Thigh Gap is a multimedia project by Nisha Patel (she/her) and Bree Meiklejohn (she/her). Nisha Patel is an artist specializing in poetry and spoken word was the 2019-2021 City of Edmonton Poet Laureate. Nisha’s work explores themes including disability and ableims, illness, identity and race, and her life as a queer South Asian woman. Bree is a University of Alberta student studying English and Creative Writing who writes to themes of marginalization, including fatphobia and sexism, mental illness and disability, and works towards using her artistic work to explore social justice and the role of the arts in achieving it. The multimedia photo/poetry series, How to Get A Thigh Gap, will articulate systemic fatphobia through creatively rewriting the WikiHow Article “How to Get a Thigh Gap” (writing and illustration laden with fatphobia), and replacing the illustrations with self-taken photos exploring fat joy in a fat body.

(in)Tolerance & Pain: Brown Skin, White Coats & Microaggressions

Funded 2021-2022 The Black Pharmacy Students’ Association (BPSA) aims to increase Black representation and engagement in the pharmacy profession, and provide a safe space for Black pharmacy students, empower them, and create a strong and extensive network. Effect of Racism and Micro-aggressions on Mental and Physical Health: A focus on Black Healthcare Students and Professionals is a virtual talk by Dr. Nnorom who will be dissecting how anti-Black oppression presents itself within many health sciences programs, including pharmacy. From Funding Recipient(s): "On behalf of the Black Pharmacy Students' Association (BPSA), University of Alberta, I would like to thank you for sponsoring our webinar, "(in)Tolerance & Pain: Brown Skin, White Coats, and Micro-aggressions. Through your generous contribution, we raised awareness about the harmful effects of anti-Black racism on Black healthcare students and professionals. The event was very impactful, and we had an excellent discourse on the topic in question, how it relates to other racialized students, and how Faculty and leaders can take concrete steps to support Black, Indigenous, and other students of color. In addition, BPSA was able to fulfill our goal to advocate for safe spaces for Black pharmacy students, staff, and the community, and this would not have been possible without your support. Your partnership has moved us a step closer to tackling systemic issues and dismantling oppressive systems in academia, specifically pharmacy and medical education, and workplaces in healthcare systems. We appreciate your support for this event, and we look forward to more opportunities for partnership in the future"

Prairie Sage Protectors (PSP)

Funded 2021-2022 Prairie Sage Protectors was established in amiskwaciwaskahikan (Edmonton AB) in 2021 by a group of Black, Indigenous and colonized people of colour, new and experienced organizers, who saw a need for a more unified and radical response across the Prairies to the ongoing/escalating oppression of the state and its agents (police & military, fascists) against Indigenous, Black, immigrant, queer, unhoused/displaced, impoverished, and otherwise marginalized people.

Food Not Bombs (FNB)

Funded 2020 FNB is an organisation dedicated to feeding our communities and pushing for a better society where homelessness and poverty are things of the past. They provide hot meals for community members experiencing homelessness and groceries for low-income people as well as participating in the local political sphere.

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.

The Prairie Youth Radical Organizing School (PYROS)

Funded 2018-2019 The Prairie Youth Radical Organizing School (PYROS) is a coalition of social justice, labour, and faith-based organizations that provides young people on the prairies with the tools to challenge injustice in their schools and communities through collective action. The Queer Scout program hosts an annual summer camp for LGBTQ2S+ youth between the ages of 14-24 in late July, and launched it’s cohort leadership program in the Fall of 2018.

Future Librarians for Intellectual Freedom (FLIF)

Funded 2011-2022 FLIF is a group of Library and Information Studies students who are interested in promoting intellectual freedom and social responsibility. They believe that issues concerning censorship, freedom of expression, and social justice go hand-in- hand, and hope that through information updates and direct action, they will be able to emphasize the importance of intellectual freedom and social responsibility in the personal and professional lives of their readers and their communities.