Founder of the Sahra Bulle Foundation, Fartumo Kusow will address gender-based violence in a session Wednesday, March 19.
Registration is open for a full range of activities during Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Decolonization (EDID) Week, March 17 to 21.
Panellists will discuss the impacts of marginalization on mental health and the importance of anti-oppressive work to dismantling structural barriers for racialized, Indigenous, disabled, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ communities in an online forum Tuesday, March 18.
Employee mental health co-ordinator Kate Hargreaves will moderate “Anti-Oppressive Mental Health in Action,” with Jaimie Kechego, learning specialist, Indigenization; Joyceln Lorito, student accessibility advisor and UWin Pride chair; and Venus Olla, clinical therapist specializing in Black and racialized student support. Find details and register.
Riham Al-Saadi, assistant professor in the School of Social Work and UWindsor Palestinian student support advisor, will provide an overview of anti-Palestinian racism as a form of racism in her interactive presentation “An Insight into Deconstructing Anti-Palestinian Racism as a Lived Experience,” Tuesday, March 18, from 10 to 3 p.m. in the Freed-Orman Centre, Assumption Hall. Find more information and register for this workshop here.
Through the story of her daughter Sahra Bulle, whose life was cut short by gender-based violence, Fartumo Kusow will challenge participants to rethink what it means to be a hero. The deeply personal and interactive 90-minute session, “I Have a Hero in You,” will explore how waiting for an outsider to intervene in acts of violence can lead to tragic outcomes. It will begin at 2 p.m. Wednesday, March 19, in the Freed-Orman Centre, Assumption Hall. Get details and register here.