Pam Strong
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Pam Strong
@Strongthinktank
Learning and Unlearning. Focused on inclusion for all through the connected work of Equity, Relationships and Well Being.
Katılım Kasım 2013
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Just added two new flags to my new school location... purposeful... symbolic... visibility... learning.... conversations.... ALL are welcome... ALL are included..
Brampton, Ontario 🇨🇦 English
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I’m lucky I have some friends in high places who give a shit and will work hard to change things.
But generally the support for 2SLGBTQ+ people is abysmal. I’d like you to know that.
We are IN racialized communities. In your community that you fight to protect otherwise. 😔
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I share resources on anti racism or racial diversity— it will get tons of traction. Tons of shares. 100s if not 1000s of people take a peek at it even if they’re not teaching the French.
I share 2SLGBTQ + things? In English? Maybe 50 people look at it.
It’s disheartening 😔
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@ChowdhurySayema And I am sorry that you have to point this out at all. To anyone.
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@ChowdhurySayema 💯! People show know this in their gut, the same way we know KKK does not equal Christianity.
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I really didnt want to have to send this tweet, but can we pls raise our consciousness on this early?
With events in #Afghanistan, #Islamophobia will sky-rocket. The rhetoric will be that #Islam is oppressive, women are abused, men are controlling, religion is "barbaric" etc..
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@MrBedford2 I wish I had read this a long time ago. I am with you my friend.
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Meet 7 groundbreaking Black scientists from the past. Educators ensure this is in the curriculum cbc.ca/radio/quirks/b…
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@natasha_faroogh Once again, queer/gender diverse human beings are told that this aspect of their identity is not fit for conversation. Let that sink in. You can’t even talk about us.
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AHG. WHY AM I SO MAD ABOUT IT?
At least the teacher is trying?!?
No. Still mad. GAH.
Someone tell me why I find this so disgusting. The feels are right there but I can’t express it in words.
Do y’all see what the gays have to go through even from well meaning folks?
BAH.
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@natasha_faroogh Discomfort is not an infringement of human rights. This tweet shows how education often values discomfort over human rights, and how even well meaning educators actively create space for homo/trans/biphobia to perpetuate.
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This is still happening, and will continue to happen. Don’t let it fade out of the public consciousness. #everychildmatters #trc
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We are horrified by Brian Pallister & Alan Lagimodiere trying to defend Residential Schools. This system was made to violently assimilate Indigenous peoples. That a government could defend this practice, especially in light of the recoveries of unmarked graves, is appalling.
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Opinion: Brian Pallister has shattered the relationship between Indigenous people and the Manitoba government - The Globe and Mail apple.news/An16n5LeHQG62u…
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@MrBedford2 @Strongthinktank I have so much to say in reply, yet don't know what to say... although we are faced with such hate, we continue to advocate, speak out, teach, share and build community. We are truly not alone; in times where it feels so very isolating... know that PRIDE PREVAILS!
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I appreciate this thread. Being an out educator for a decade+ has brought gifts & huge costs. Usually, I only share the gifts. One ugly truth of many-death threats required a safety plan at work & a quick response support plan with police. I will never be the same from the hate.
🐾@natasha_faroogh
I wish you all knew how hard it is to be an out and proud educator. Unlike the colour of your skin or even religious symbols — sexuality is something that can’t be seen or guessed. So when some of us educators go out of our way to “out” ourselves in the classroom or online 1/
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@Strongthinktank I appreciate you for all the work you do -- probably so underrecognized and the cost is immense in ways I'm sure I cannot imagine for being out over a decade ago. You have paved the way for people like myself to be safer in classrooms.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
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Miigwetch @BearheadWally for this thread #215children Settler allies, please read whole thread. #Indigenous folks who work in #IndigenousEd are being crushed now for all the reasons listed here
Wally Bearhead@BearheadWally
THREAD - It's time to talk again, because even after #215children, there's a problem, and it seems to be building.
Guelph, Ontario 🇨🇦 English
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My heart hurts. I can't stop thinking about the 9 year old Muslim boy, whose family was killed in an Islamophobic attack yesterday in London, ON.
He will grow up without the warmth of his parents. He will grow up without his sister or grandmother.
That could have been me.
Mississauga, Ontario 🇨🇦 English
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Horrific incident of #Islamophobia 💔. Conversations on hate-based systems of oppression must be seen as linked. Silos and pitting of one form of racism against another only feeds the larger narrative of Supremacy. We must fight for emancipation collectively.
CBC News Alerts@CBCAlerts
London, Ont. police say they believe 4 people struck and killed Sunday were 'targeted because of their Islamic faith.' 20-year-old white man charged with 4 counts 1st-degree murder, 1 count attempted murder. Victims members of same family. Previous story: cbc.ca/1.6056238
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The man who killed four innocent Muslims & orphaned one - was a Grade 8 student just 6-7 years ago. This is *why* we do the work we do in schools.
This is why conversations about race & oppression are needed. Embedded into curriculum, into instruction.
Educate.
#londonontario
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