This is a photo collage of the books on our 2024 ‘Don’t Call Me Resilient’ holiday booklist. Each book connects with a past episode of the podcast, and is written or edited by a guest from that episode.
Thought-provoking reads for the critical thinker on your gift list. Each book connects with a past Don’t Call Me Resilient episode. Listen alongside reading to bring the scholar & their ideas to life.
Carol Tiger, a member of Muscogee Nation and an elder in Okemah, Okla., lets the oil drip off a freshly-cooked piece of frybread. Although beloved by many, it is a far cry from the pre-colonial foods that nourished Indigenous people for centuries.
(AP Photo/Brittany Bendabout)
Frybread — a simple, versatile “comfort food” for many Indigenous communities — embodies the contradictions that have dictated Indigenous food and health in North America since colonization.
Oct. 7 marked one year since the beginning of ongoing hostilities between Israel and Palestine. Left: Anti-war rally on Parliament Hill on Oct. 5, 2024. Right: Commemorative ceremony for Israeli hostages on Parliament Hill on Oct. 6, 2024.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang, THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby
Revisit past episodes of Don’t Call Me Resilient that dive into issues related to the Israel-Gaza conflict, both at home and away.
On Sept. 30, community groups across Canada observe the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation to honour the generations impacted by the residential school system and to remember the children who never returned home.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes
This playlist of podcast episodes invites listeners to engage in learning and unlearning; to acknowledge the tragic legacies of residential schools and to move beyond a single day of remembrance.
Demonstrators rally near the military headquarters in Khartoum, Sudan in April 2019. Protests led by neighbourhood resistance committees and the Sudanese Professionals Association - an umbrella group of unions - forced President Omar al-Bashir from power on April 11, 2019.
AP Photo/Salih Basheer, File
In Sudan, amid a growing humanitarian crisis caused by a year-long and ongoing war, neighbourhood organizations have stepped in as first responders, and to lead the call for peace.
A man stands next to a poster of the movie ‘Article 370’ displayed at a theater in Guwahati, India. The movie is about the status of Jammu and Kashmir, a highly contested region in Northern India, and the film has been criticized for distorting history.
(AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
On today’s Don’t Call Me Resilient podcast, political scientist Sikata Banerjee and cinema studies scholar Rakesh Sengupta explain how cinema and social media in India may be helping to sway voters.
Student protesters link arms as police move to clear remaining protesters and their encampment at the University of Calgary campus on May 9, 2024.
Noah Korver/Canadian Press
Student protests on campuses are calling attention to atrocities in Gaza and challenging university administrators to divest. What is the best way forward that avoids unnecessary violence?
As we approach the start of gardening season, it’s a good time to ask some questions about what to plant and who gets to plant.
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This episode explores how colonial history has affected what we plant and who gets to garden. We also discuss practical gardening tips with an eye to Indigenous knowledge.
Five Ontario school boards are suing the companies behind major social media platforms Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok, alleging their addictive products have caused the students to suffer from mental health issues, and causing widespread damage and disruption to the education system.
Is a cellphone ban, along with increased surveillance, the right way to deal with the impact of addictive and harmful technology in classrooms?
Indigenous media makers are successfully gaining more control over their storytelling. Here Dallas Goldtooth and Jana Schmieding as Nelson Renville and Reagan Wells in the sitcom, ‘Rutherford Falls.’
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Indigenous media have rapidly expanded over the last 30 years with Indigenous media makers gaining greater control of their narratives.
Hind Khoudary, based in the Gaza strip, has been reporting for Al Jazeera English and her own social media channels since Oct. 7, 2023. Media experts say western news outlets, not allowed into Gaza, should create more partnerships with journalists like Khoudary, shown here on Nov. 3, 2023.
Hind Khoudary/Instagram
Dannielle Piper, The Conversation and Vinita Srivastava, The Conversation
Experts say mainstream media coverage of the war in Gaza is severely skewed — with Palestinian voices getting stifled.
Hanadi Alashi points to Palestinian family members in a photo at her home in Ottawa on Dec. 1, 2023. Alashi is one of many Canadians who have applied for family members to come to Canada under a special extended family visa program created in response to the conflict in Gaza.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby
Refugee programs in Canada have always been politicized, but more so in recent years, evidenced in discrepancies between programs for refugees from Gaza and Sudan and those from Ukraine.
Will Beyoncé’s new album help to break down racial barriers in the country music industry? Here she performs during the ‘On The Run’ tour on July 18, 2014 in Houston, Texas.
(Photo by Aaron M. Sprecher/Invision for Parkwood Entertainment/AP Images)
Beyoncé’s country-inspired album has caused a stir because the country music scene has a history of racial segregation that has erased its Black roots and gatekept it from Black artists.
A family living through the Bengal famine, a time when three million people died due to starvation,1943.
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For centuries, colonial powers have used starvation as a tool to control Indigenous populations and take over their land and wealth. A look back at two historic examples on two different continents.
Palestinians line up for a meal in Rafah, Gaza Strip, on March 12, 2024.
AP Photo/Fatima Shbair
We speak with Hilal Elver, the former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food and current University of California professor about the looming famine in Gaza after months of Israeli attacks.
Oscar wins through the years: 1. Hattie McDaniel, best supporting actress with Fay Bainter, 1940. 2. Whoopi Goldberg, best supporting actress, 1991. 3. Halle Berry, best actress, 2002. 4. Jennifer Hudson, best supporting actress, 2007. 5. Mo'Nique, best supporting actress, 2010. 6. Lupita Nyong’o, best actress, 2014. 7. Octavia Spencer, best supporting actress, 2012. 8.Viola Davis, best supporting actress, 2017 9. Da'Vine Joy Randolph, best supporting actress, 2024.
(AP | Oscars | Shutterstock)
It’s been nine years since #OscarsSoWhite called out a lack of diversity at the Oscars. Has anything changed? Prof. Naila Keleta-Mae and actress Mariah Inger unpack the progress.
Image credits: AP/Hatem Ali (Palestinians displaced by the Israeli offensive in Gaza in Rafah in Jan)., AP/Chris Pizzello (Taraji P. Henson), THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick (sign at climate protest on Parliament Hill in Ottawa), CP/Spencer Colby (police at a pro-Palestinian protest), Jason Getz/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP (rainbow-haired “Stop Cop City” protestor with fist raised), DCMR logo.
The DCMR team has been busy prepping new episodes and next week, we start releasing episodes for season 7, taking our anti-racist lens to the news and issues occupying a lot of our minds these days.
This season, we are sharing a musical playlist created by our podcast guests and producers. Here Mustafa performs during the Juno Awards in Toronto on May 15, 2022.
(THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette)
Our playlist is a collection of songs on the theme of resilience, reflection and revolution, inspired by the topics we cover on our Don’t Call Me Resilient podcast.
Jeffrey Wright stars in ‘American Fiction,’ a satirical film which raises questions about race and commodity and diversity.
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The release of ‘American Fiction’ presents an opportunity to talk about race, power and white supremacy: What version of Blackness is acceptable or saleable within American culture?
Erika Alexander is Coraline and Jeffrey Wright is Monk in ‘American Fiction.’
(Claire Folger/Orion)
Dannielle Piper, The Conversation and Vinita Srivastava, The Conversation
In this episode, Vinita sits down with two experts to break down the many layers — and Black stereotypes — in the much anticipated new film, ‘American Fiction.’