Week 9 & 10

This leads us into some topics we will discuss this week; cultural appropriation. When is it crossing the line between honoring and celebrating a cultural and appropriating it....? Provide some examples of institutional cultural appropriation and examples of cultural appreciation. You can think about it in the context of multiculturalism? School communities? Fashion? And how should we be challenging these
https://www.cbc.ca/sports/naig/wente-racism-sports-mascots-1.3480910

On November 11th we Remember - all of those who have fought and lost their lives, and all of those who continue to fight for our freedom. Share some of your new learning related to the group whose contributions to war and remembrance you researched? What did you learn? What surprised you?

https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2018/11/08/remember-indigenous-veterans_a_23584025/

Sexual Harassment in the workplace can affect us in different ways, it's a preventable problem, but until it's eliminated completely we need to know what to do in the event of such treatment. What are the policies at your own workplace for reporting harassment? What about the post-secondary institution that you may be considering next year? (research one schools policy and report on it in your Blog).

We will be looking at representations of equity seeking groups and issues as we move through the second half of the course. Sophie & Kaelyn did a great job at framing this issue from the perspective of 'tokenism'. What other representations of equity seeking groups appear to be tokenistic? Consider media and in particular advertising? Choose and equity seeking group and identify at least one example of tokenistic representation and another example that is authentic and respectful to that group or identity (ie; not tokenistic).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKzoNA6Gm18