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So much heartfelt gratitude to all our participant

So much heartfelt gratitude to all our participants for joining us to delve deep into necessary intersectional anti racist work. Our #bipoc youth panel and the incredible @autonomyyvr shared with us all the steps we need to take to eradicate anti black racism in our school communities. And much love to our amazing workshop facilitators for reinforcing the knowledge and expertise of our morning session. Please check www.aoec.ca for a recording of the keynote (in a few days), resources and upcoming events. #antiracisteducation #antioppressivepractice #professionaldevelopment
#bcbipoceducators #antiracismconference #blacklivesmatter #racialjusticebc #uncededcoastsalishterritory #decolonizeeducation #aoec

Our very wonderful tech crew making our conference

Our very wonderful tech crew making our conference smrun so smooth! #higherlearning #antiracisteducation #knowmoredomore

Our AOEC conference is kicking off with the amazin

Our AOEC conference is kicking off with the amazing Ruby Smith Díaz @autonomyyvr #antiblackracism #knowmoredobetter #psaday #bctf

Posted @withregram • @ohanasj This is going to b

Posted @withregram • @ohanasj This is going to be absolute fire and truth. Thank you so much for planning this! #Repost @feministsdeliver
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It’s time to look at the economic system such as wealth generation, and define world views on what is wealth for the individual and the collective. Join us: Toward Liberation: Evolving Beyond 21st Century Capitalism on Friday, November 6 with Angela Davis, Dr. Pamela D. Palmater, Erica Ifill, Harsha Walia, moderated by Angela Marie MacDougall and introductory remarks from Rhiannon Bennett of Hummingbirds Rising Consulting. ✅Register now: See the link in our bio. #postcapitalism #antioppression #feministsdeliver #angeladavis #intersectionalfeminism

As anti-oppression educators, we need to carefully

As anti-oppression educators, we need to carefully consider which communities feel “safe” and “protected” by law enforcement and which communities feel targeted, exploited, or violated. We must centre the voices an experiences of students, families, and communities who are at the margins, in order to understand impact and effectiveness of surveillance measures in schools. - Preet Lidder (Facilitator, AOEC Member-At-Large) 💛This workshop still has a few spaces left. Workshop post(#1) @cedarfires
Illustration(#2) @jonell.joshua for NPR article on Police in schools. #bcbipoceducators #antiracisteducation #antiracismconference #blacklivesmatter #racialjusticebc #uncededcoastsalishterritory #decolonizeeducation

Conference updates: Due to high demand all worksho

Conference updates: Due to high demand all workshops filled up quickly, however the ‘Policing BIPOC Students’ workshop has just opened up a few more spaces - so REGISTER NOW! You can also register for just the morning Keynote and Youth Panel, which will also get you a one year membership to AOEC ✊🏾✊🏿✊🏽[Link in bio] #bcbipoceducators #antiracisteducation #antiracismconference #blacklivesmatter #racialjusticebc #uncededcoastsalishterritory #decolonizeeducation #ibramxkendi #howtobeanantiracist

Friends! We have a fabulous line up of talented fa

Friends! We have a fabulous line up of talented facilitators at this year's 2nd Annual BIPOC Educators Conference. Only 2 weeks left so register! Workshop registration and link can be found in bio. Poster @cedarfires #bcbipoceducators #antiracisteducation #antiracismconference #blacklivesmatter #racialjusticebc #uncededcoastsalishterritory #decolonizeeducation

Ruby Smith Díaz (she/her/hers) was born to Chile

Ruby Smith Díaz (she/her/hers) was born to Chilean and Jamaican parents in Edmonton –amiskwaciy and graduated from the University of Alberta with a degree in Education with distinction.

Since graduating in 2010, Ruby has centred her work on exploring issues of inclusion and anti-oppression in classrooms, custody centres, non-profit organizations and beyond. She is the founder of Tierra Negra Arts, an arts based facilitation business with a mission to deliver workshops that foster inclusion and social justice in communities. She is also the owner of Autonomy Fitness, a body positive personal training business inviting people of all sizes, abilities, genders and sexual orientations to learn the joy of movement.

In 2018, Ruby launched "Still Here", an arts based workshop series aimed at fostering a deeper understanding of the history of anti-Black racism in Canada, and celebrating the resilience and resistance of Black communities. Her writing appears in Harsha Walia's book, Undoing Border Imperialism, and in the newly released book by Nora Samaran, Turn this World Inside Out. She is the director and producer of the film After Africville, which was recently featured at the MSVU Gallery in Halifax and the Vancouver International Film Festival Black History Month series. #bcbipoceducators #antiracisteducation #antiracismconference #blacklivesmatter #racialjusticebc #uncededcoastsalishterritory #decolonizeeducation

We are proud to present the 2nd Annual BIPOC Confe

We are proud to present the 2nd Annual BIPOC Conference. Registration now open. Link in bio. Please stay tuned for more details on workshops and remember to SAVE THE DATE!
So much gratitude to @cedarfires for the beautiful graphic!

AOEC executive members commemorating #orangeshirtd

AOEC executive members commemorating #orangeshirtday because #indogenouslivesmatter

If you are looking for a good podcast make sure yo

If you are looking for a good podcast make sure you check this out!

An amazing event I hope you all can make! https://

An amazing event I hope you all can make! https://facebook.com/events/s/roundtable-discussion-abolitio/1017503768700117/?ti=icl

If #blacklivesmatter than we have to listen to bla

If #blacklivesmatter than we have to listen to black communities. The over policing of black people is a crime. Our black sts deserve a world where they don’t have to lice in fear. #banstreetchecks

Why they need to go!

Why they need to go!

Listening to indigenous and black communities we r

Listening to indigenous and black communities we recognize police street checks must be banned. #racismistaught

As an educational organization we are committed to

As an educational organization we are committed to making this world a better place for our students. An anti oppressive world is what we hunger for. Arbitrary in nature and based on racial profiling street checks need to be banned. Listening to bipoc communities, we have learnt street checks by police are the crime. Join the call to ban street checks. For more info: https://bccla.org/our_work/street_checks_open_letter/

✊🏾✊🏿✊🏽✊🏿 On May 25, 2020, the

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On May 25, 2020, the world collectively witnessed, yet again, deeply disturbing video footage captured on a cellphone of the murder of George Floyd, a Black man, at the hands of police officers in Minneapolis. In this latest chapter of the ongoing racial terror towards Black communities, it has not only sparked ongoing protests globally against police brutality, but Black communities are demanding that all social institutions grapple and face with its own complicity in perpetuating and normalizing anti-Blackness. We are acutely aware that our students are traumatized by the consumption of the news cycles about Black death and as educators, we recognize that we have a responsibility in ending violence and the dehumanization of Black folks in our school communities. It is against this background of social, political and historical factors that lead to Floyd's death, that we have organized our very first virtual AOEC Townhall titled: Confronting Anti Black Racism in our School Communities. Please join us this coming Saturday on June 13 from 10:30 -12:30 PST as we invite three panellists into a virtual space to debrief, discuss, and learn how to heed calls to action.
The purpose and aim of this virtual townhall are to create a space to face the ways in which schooling right here, in so-called BC and Canada, continues to dehumanize Black students. We have a responsibility to confront and counter anti-Black racism in our education system to end the cycle of systemic racism.
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We want to hear from YOU! Please email the moderator and AOEC Member-at-large, Preet Lidder directly at preetlidder@gmail.com to submit your questions for our panellists. We will also be taking questions.
Please see the attached flyer for more details or find us at our Faceook event page at https://www.facebook.com/events/310806943256228/
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Please follow this link to register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/aoec-townhall-confronting-anti-black-racism-in-our-school-communities-tickets-108651674082
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We look forward to seeing you on Saturday ✊🏿✊🏿✊🏾
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📣 Friends! Get Ready! BC BIPOC Educators' Conf

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Friends! Get Ready!
BC BIPOC Educators' Conference 2020 planning is well under way! .
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✏️Mark your calendars for October 23rd, 2020!
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🎉 🙏🏿 Our deepest gratitude to the Indigen

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Our deepest gratitude to the Indigenous peoples of these unceded Coast Salish territories for allowing us the opportunity to gather on your sovereign lands in the name of justice, equity & freedom. Thank you to Carleen Thomas of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation for your moving Welcome & acclaimed Indigenous scholar Dr. Shauneen Pete of Little Pine First Nation for a keynote that lit the fire needed to keep us on the path to Unlearning the Colonial🔥
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Thank you to All who joined in making the inaugural BC BIPOC Educators' Conference an experience never to be forgotten. The day was filled with energy, anxiety, comfort, fierce & strengthening words, workshops that moved us to action & moved us to look inwards. The defining purpose of this conference was to acknowledge & deconstruct the oppressive systems of colonialism we still navigate today & rebuild a world that ensures equitable freedom to thrive for all beings alike. We cannot do this work without looking to our own existence on Indigenous lands. We must acknowledge the continued erasure & violence of Indigenous peoples & unpack our complicity in these oppressions. We must look honestly at the violence Black bodies mitigate in this country & understand that all racial justice hinges upon the freedom of our Indigenous & Black peoples.
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Thoughtful (& awesome!) swag bags were very important to this organising committee. We hope you will take these gifts along with the knowledge shared, to continue the work of Unlearning the Colonial in your personal life & to share these profound understandings & unlearnings with your students, families, peers & wider community.
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Thank you to all our wonderful volunteers & the incredible students from the Lion's Club who volunteered their Saturday to support the conference. .
🤎We do this work for you & with you 🤎
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As PAGEBC evolves into the Anti-Oppression Educators Collective (AOEC) be sure to check for updates & upcoming events at pagebc.ca (new website coming soon!). 👋🏿See you next year!!!👋🏾
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"If I'm shining everybody gonna shine" ~Lizzo
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#unlearningthecolonial
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#decoloniseeducationbc
#antiracismconference

😋 And now we eat cake! Thank you Amanda for mak

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And now we eat cake! Thank you Amanda for making us this delicious vegan cake to celebrate our volunteers, the organising committee & all the incredible folks who helped make this day possible! 🤎🤎🤎
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#blacklivesmatter
#bipocdisabilityjustice
#racialjusticebc
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