BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Office of Regional and International Community Engagement//NONSGML Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://orice.ubc.ca/events/event/ X-WR-CALDESC:Office of Regional and International Community Engagement - Events BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20251008T2231Z-1759962683.0704-EO-26822-43@10.19.146.24 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260313T235304Z CREATED:20211027T201459Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220804T202225Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220126T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220126T183000 SUMMARY: Allyship: What does this really mean? DESCRIPTION: 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 […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

In an eff ort to show support for various issues\, we often see people turn to charit able actions.  While that is important\, we also know that we must enact ch ange to existing policies and structures. But beyond charity\, what do form s of solidarity and allyship look like? What does it look like to be an all y 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 pas t performative activism to actively push for and make change? Does allyship look different in different communities? Join us on January 26th as speake rs and community leaders engage in dialogue about what allyship means to th em in their work and how it looks like in their communities.

 

Registration link: htt ps://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\, d isabled\, sick & Mad artist\, writer\, activist-educator\, and historian. T heir scholarly work looks at how ableism and eugenics have served settler c olonial genocide in North America to articulate the unique formations of eu genic violence in settler colonialism. Bec ause of ableism and a pandemic\, she is an accidental historian of anti-dis abled and anti-Indigenous urban planning and public health in the Lower Mai nland of British Columbia. Much of her MA has been spent fighting for acces s and survival as a disabled student\, which has shaped her recent writing in Our Crip Notes and Active History and the forthc oming fourth edition of  Reading Sociology: Unsettling a settler colonial project & re/writing sociological narratives both in collaborati on with Danielle E. Lorenz. Teaching\, squishmallows\, wild bir ds\, and plants are particular loves. They are complicit occupiers of xʷməθkʷəy̓əm land and were born in Appal achia\, occupied Monacan land. They identify as exhausted.

Natasha Jung\, Founder\, Executive Producer and Editor in Chief\, Co ld Tea Collective

Natasha Jung is the Founder\, Editor in Chief\, and Executive Producer of Cold Tea Collective\, a media publicatio n 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 ampl ify\, inspire\, and empower the next generation of the Asian diaspora in No rth America. We recognize that as settlers of colour\, we must work to dism antle the colonialist narrative through our content. We do so by incorporat ing anti-racism editorial practices and working to amplify a diversity of i ntersectional 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”. T hat 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 Multi culturalism and Anti-Racism Awards. 

Natasha is a founding advisor for the Diversity and Inclusion Leade rship Council with the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade and has served on s everal non-profit boards over the last decade. Her dedication to community has also been recognized by the United Global Chinese Womens’ Association o f Canada and Deloitte Canada. She has worked over 15 years in marketing\, m edia\, and education.

 

 

 

This event is an instalment in an event series ho sted 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 cont ested global events and issues can be hard to engage with or simply overwhe lming when trying to wade through a sea of jargon. Through these events we hope to engage with dialogue to understand how different communities or mov ements define them and how this understanding is translated into action in different spaces.

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