In an effort to show support for various issues, we often see people turn to charitable actions. While that is important, we also know that we must enact change to existing policies and structures. But beyond charity, what do forms of solidarity and allyship look like? What does it look like to be an ally or practice allyship in today’s social climate? How do community members know how and when to engage in solidarity and allyship? How do we move past performative activism to actively push for and make change? Does allyship look different in different communities? Join us on January 26th as speakers and community leaders engage in dialogue about what allyship means to them in their work and how it looks like in their communities.
Registration link: https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5cvd-GrqTspGdNFzCjtIiu2Lf4CfTQ36xak
Featured Speakers:
Hannah Sullivan Facknitz, Masters Student at UBC History
Hannah Sullivan Facknitz (they/them) is a queer, disabled, sick & Mad artist, writer, activist-educator, and historian. Their scholarly work looks at how ableism and eugenics have served settler colonial genocide in North America to articulate the unique formations of eugenic violence in settler colonialism. Because of ableism and a pandemic, she is an accidental historian of anti-disabled and anti-Indigenous urban planning and public health in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia. Much of her MA has been spent fighting for access and survival as a disabled student, which has shaped her recent writing in Our Crip Notes and Active History and the forthcoming fourth edition of Reading Sociology: Unsettling a settler colonial project & re/writing sociological narratives both in collaboration with Danielle E. Lorenz. Teaching, squishmallows, wild birds, and plants are particular loves. They are complicit occupiers of xʷməθkʷəy̓əm land and were born in Appalachia, occupied Monacan land. They identify as exhausted.
Natasha Jung, Founder, Executive Producer and Editor in Chief, Cold Tea Collective
Natasha Jung is the Founder, Editor in Chief, and Executive Producer of Cold Tea Collective, a media publication for, by, and about Asian millennials in North America. She is based on the Indigenous lands of the Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations, known colonially as Vancouver.
Cold Tea Collective aims to publish content that works to amplify, inspire, and empower the next generation of the Asian diaspora in North America. We recognize that as settlers of colour, we must work to dismantle the colonialist narrative through our content. We do so by incorporating anti-racism editorial practices and working to amplify a diversity of intersectional experiences with other BIPOC groups in our content.
In 2021, PR Newswire named Cold Tea Collective one of the “10 Top-Notch Asian American News Sites to Follow”. That same year, Natasha was named a Community Builder in BC Business’ Women of the Year Awards and Cold Tea Collective was recognized by the BC Multiculturalism and Anti-Racism Awards.
Natasha is a founding advisor for the Diversity and Inclusion Leadership Council with the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade and has served on several non-profit boards over the last decade. Her dedication to community has also been recognized by the United Global Chinese Womens’ Association of Canada and Deloitte Canada. She has worked over 15 years in marketing, media, and education.
This event is an instalment in an event series hosted by ORICE titled, “What does this really mean?” featuring one word or phrase per session that is commonly used but may not be fully understood or is understood in different ways by different communities. Complex and contested global events and issues can be hard to engage with or simply overwhelming when trying to wade through a sea of jargon. Through these events we hope to engage with dialogue to understand how different communities or movements define them and how this understanding is translated into action in different spaces.