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✊🏾✊🏿✊🏽✊🏿 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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😋 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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#townhall #unlearningthecolonial #bcbipoceducators

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Goooood fooood!!! ✊🏿 We are so fortunate to s

Goooood fooood!!!
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We are so fortunate to support and be fed by the amazing Migrant Food Collective - The Oscars! 🤎😋
"The Oscars: Migrant Food Collective. Our Migrant Food Collective is an initiative of migrants from different paths of migration.
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The funds earned are used in our activities and support at Watari.
These activities include:
*Community Gardens
*Community Kitchens
*Health Fairs, special events, recreation activities, support and advocacy with and for Agricultural Migrant Workers.
*Support group for families and their children *Other activities and support, as identified by the community"
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*Contact:
Ingrid: 604-328-8492
Berta: 604-782-5084
Byron: 694-315-7725
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Incredible community! Incredible keynote! Incredib

Incredible community! Incredible keynote! Incredible knowledge! Incredibly important work! .
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🔥 Happening now!! . Welcome All to the first BC

🔥 Happening now!!
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Welcome All to the first BC BIPOC Educators' Conference: Unlearning the Colonial.
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Dr. Shauneen Pete setting the tone & sharing energy for this incredible day of unlearning colonialism. Let us walk this journey together. .
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#socialjusticeconference
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#indigenioussovereignty
#blacklivesmatter
#bipocdisabilityjustice
#racialjusticebc
#drshauneenpete
#keynotespeaker

🎤🎭 Laughter keeps life in perspective and he

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Laughter keeps life in perspective and hearts light! We are thrilled to have esteemed local comedian Tin Lorica join us as our entertainment for this year's conference. It was important for us to offer our participants space to decompress & unwind after a solid day of decolonising & digging deep, we couldn't have asked for a greater joy than Tin's comedy & presence to bring laughter to this event. We are so excited & ready to laugh!!! .
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Tin Lorica is a queer Filipinx stand-up comedian living on unceded Coast Salish territories aka Vancouver. They are your local grumpy barrista. They co-host & produce a monthly comedy & poetry showcase called Millennial Line, as well as Yellow Fever, a comedy show by Asians, for Asians, and also non-Asians!
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💥1 day left!!! BC BIPOC Educators' Conference: Unlearning the Colonial is tomorrow! We are so very excited to share this incredibly important & profound event with you all. Let's grow & contribute to the larger anti-racism movement in education so that we may all live, learn & flourish with dignity, equity & freedom.
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How excited are you?! Comment below 👇🏿 & tell us what you are most looking forward to! .
🌠See you tomorrow friends!! .
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Meet this year's incredible facilitators!
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We could not have organised 'Unlearning the Colonial' without the incredible, dedicated & fierce support from our facilitators. It truly takes a community to grow community & a movement, that is what this event is all about! 👥
These are just some of our wonderful facilitators & the engaging workshops they will be facilitating (in no particular order):
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🔹Ditta Cross
🔹Ruby Smith-Diaz
🔹Christine Stewart
🔹Amrit Kaur Sanghe
🔹Camille Dumond
🔹Donna Morgan
🔹Tasha Nijjar
🔹Ashley Bentley
🔹Mahima Lamba
🔹Heather Kelley
🔹Kassandra Cordero
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🔹Teaching Black Histories & Justice in BC
🔹Allyship
🔹White Fragility
🔹Your Body, Your Liberation
🔹Their Voices Will Guide Us
🔹Migrant Justice
🔹Disrupting Racism
🔹Working With Children of Colour
🔹Settler Colonialism
🔹Union 101
🔹Language Justice
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📣With only 4 days left, workshops are filling up quickly!
Don't miss out on this important opportunity, go to pagebc.ca now to register! 📣
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#uncededcoastsalishterritory
#decoloniseeducationbc
#socialjusticeconference
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#indigenioussovereignty
#blacklivesmatter
#racialjusticebc
#bipocstrong

🌟 Facilitators are the foundation of a conferen

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Facilitators are the foundation of a conference. We could not have organised 'Unlearning the Colonial' without the incredible, dedicated & fierce support from our facilitators. It truly takes a community to grow community & a movement, that is what this event is all about!🔹
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"As a classroom community, our capacity to generate excitement is deeply affected by our interest in one another, in hearing one another's voices, in recognizing one another's presence." ~bell hooks, Teaching To Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
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👥**Check out our next post to meet this year's brilliant facilitators & the engaging workshops they will lead!**👥
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📣With only 4 days left, workshops are filling up quickly!
Don't miss out on this important opportunity, go to pagebc.ca now to register! 📣
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#bcbipoceducators2019
#unlearningthecolonial
#uncededcoastsalishterritory
#decoloniseeducationbc
#socialjusticeconference
#antiracismconference
#indigenioussovereignty
#blacklivesmatter
#racialjusticebc
#bipocstrong

🌀We stand in solidarity with the world climate

🌀We stand in solidarity with the world climate strike, today & everyday! We stand in solidarity with the, far too often, invisible work being done by BIPOC youth climate activists!✊🏿✊🏾✊🏿
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We must look to the wider perspective of any given issue; such as the inequity & erasure of some voices over others. It is our responsibility to question the status quo & use our platforms & classrooms to uplift & highlight the work & voices of marginalised young activists, especially by those holding privilege. 🌀
We watch & feel as the world; frightened, concerned & confused, has taken to the rise of young peoples' demand for immediate #climateaction to save this beautiful planet we call home. Yet, in the discourse of climate action we see a distinct lack of recognition for the thousands of racialised youth who have been fighting for climate change, for years. Let us also not forget those who are the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change: BIPOC with disabilities, a group overtly excluded from discussion & planning around climate change & preparedness. 🌀
We MUST ask the questions: Why are global platforms, noteriety & relevance prioritised for non-BIPOC (white) voices? What are our internalised biases when considering race, ableism & the politics of knowledge? 🌀
If you are teaching about #gretathunberg you have a responsibility to research & teach about young activists of colour who have been working tirelessly without the same access & priveleges afforded to their white peers. We must lift up the Indigenous peoples of this globe who have, despite violence, erasure & colonisation continued to protect Mother Earth for US ALL. Representation matters & these are the examples of representation we want for our BIPOC & non-BIPOC students alike.
We must change the narrative & shift the power dynamics of our communities. 🌀
We have compiled here a small list of BIPOC youth activists. Who are some other young activists of colour both disabled and/or not you can add to this list? Comment below, tag young BIPOC activists & teach about their work. Are we giving these young people equitable resources & encouragement?
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✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏿✊🏾 What is the si

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What is the significance of using the term BIPOC?
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The BIPOC Project, based in the US (thebipocproject.org) has an excellent explanation, we borrow some of their language here:
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BIPOC or Black, Indigenous, people of colour, aims to bring long-lasting & authentic solidarity amongst groups in order to undo Indigenous invisibility & anti-Blackness, dismantle white supremacy & advance racial justice. The term BIPOC highlights the unique relationship to whiteness that Indigenous and Black folks have that shape the experiences of & relationship to white supremacy for all racialized people within a Turtle Island (North American) context.
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Don't identify as BIPOC?
We have worked hard to curate a workshop list that is to building relational allyship with BIPOC. The work of anti-racism requires the life-long commitment of dominant groups. When you click 'Register' you will be prompted the question, if you are non-BIPOC you will automatically be registered for the workshop 'Allyship' & then you will have options for the afternoon. In total there are EIGHT different workshops that are open to non-BIPOC. **We strongly encourage all non-BIPOC folks to sign up for the 'White Fragility' workshop to build a strong foundation for allyship.**
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In order for anti-racism & anti-oppression work to flourish & create lasting systemic change, we must ALL- BIPOC & non-BIPOC alike, work together, to check our privilege, actively decolonise our intimate lives, our pedagogy, our social/professional interactions & biases. •
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Register: PAGEBC.ca
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Be sure to check out our friends on their:
Website: thebipocproject.org
Facebook: The BIPoC Project
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#decoloniseeducationbc
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#indigenioussovereignty
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#bipocdisabilityjustice
#racialjusticebc
#bipocstrong

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🌟 It is with great privilege & gratitude that w

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It is with great privilege & gratitude that we share this year's Keynote Speaker:
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🔸🔸🔸Dr. Shaunee Pete🔸🔸🔸
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Dr. Pete is Cree from Little Pine First Nation (Treaty 6 territory). She is the Indigenous Resurgence Coordinator in the Indigenous Education Department, Faculty of Education at the University of Victoria. Prior to moving to BC two years ago, she was a full professor at the University of Regina where she specialized in decolonial settler education, Indigenisation in higher education and anti-oppressive pedagogy. She has worked as a professor and university administrator. Dr. Pete is a storyteller and a new Kohkom (grandmother). •
We are extremely excited to have Dr. Pete set the tone of this year's conference: Unlearning the Colonial. Lifting the voices of Indigenous women, scholars, educators, researchers, activists and those whose life's work seeks to uplift our Indigenous and racialised communities is what this conference is all about. We couldn't have asked for a greater gift than the presence of Dr. Pete & all the incredible facilitators participating in this year's conference. •
Let's do this!
Have you registered yet?
Head over to PAGEBC.ca for more information & to register for this meaningful event. •
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>>"The story of Canada is not a story about multiculturalism but a story of colonial white dominance: this truth must become a part of the social narrative we tell about ourselves."<<
~Dr. Shauneen Pete
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#decoloniseeducationbc
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#indigenioussovereignty
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#drshauneenpete

🌟 It is with great privilege & gratitude that w

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It is with great privilege & gratitude that we share this year's Keynote Speaker: .
🔸🔸🔸Dr. Shaunee Pete🔸🔸🔸
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We are extremely excited to have Dr. Pete set the tone of this year's conference: Unlearning the Colonial. Lifting the voices of Indigenous women, scholars, educators, researchers, activists and those whose life's work seeks to uplift our Indigenous and racialised communities is what this conference is all about. We couldn't have asked for a greater gift than the presence of Dr. Pete & all the incredible facilitators participating in this year's conference. •
>>***Check out our next post for more information about Dr. Pete***<<
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#unlearningthecolonial
#uncededcoastsalishterritory
#decoloniseeducationbc
#socialjusticeconference
#antiracismconference
#indigenioussovereignty
#blacklivesmatter
#bipocdisabilityjustice
#racialjusticebc
#drshauneenpete
#keynotespeaker

*Unlearning the Colonial* • As the latest of Tru

*Unlearning the Colonial*
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As the latest of Trudeau's racist blackface & brownface histories pile up, many adults, racialized & marginalised, will inevitably feel the resurfacing of their own traumas; battles fought on playgrounds, in locker rooms, buses and hallways of K-12 years in school. For those who went on to post-secondary education, we will have experienced the continuation of these structural oppressions. But let us not simply reflect in our own trauma, grow angry or become distracted by the latest revelations of this country's PM. Instead we turn the lens to those students & families; Indigenous, Black & racialised who are mitigating these systemic racial oppressions right now, today. •
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YOU are the impetus for this committee's drive to establish this conference. We see you, we recognize you, we support you & your needs & take seriously the task at hand- in order for truth, reconcilation & lasting systemic change to occur, we must decolonise our lives, our schools, union spaces & classrooms.
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These moments remind us (and there are many of these moments!) how crucial this work is. •
We are committed to centering our BIPOC students' voices, needs & growth. •
We see you, we hear you, we love you. •
" Whiteness is the unexamined norm in Canada. With it flows many privileges that contribute to entitlement and sense of superiority and the generalized belief in meritocracy. Where white dominance operates, othering emerges and forms a racial hierarchy that while rooted in our colonial past operates still especially in regard to First Nations and Inuit people. White dominance explains social inequality. " ~ Dr. Shauneen Pete
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#blacklivesmatter
#bipocdisabilityjustice
#racialjusticebc
#drshauneenpete

📣Countdown! 19 days! BC BIPOC Educators' Confe

📣Countdown!
19 days!
BC BIPOC Educators' Conference: *Unlearning the Colonial*
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" The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situation that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor that is planted deep within each of us." ~Audre Lorde
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Are you...
•Navigating the daily effects of micro & macro aggressions alone or with little support?
•Looking to be a better ally to racialized peers, students and loved ones?
•Not knowing where to begin or how to look inwards at the pain of daily systemic oppression?
•Looking to grow community and the social justice work you are engaged in?
•••No matter what your experience and/or capacity, on October 5, we invite you to build solidarity, fill your toolbox with resources, create action plans and look inwards to uncover how revolutionary change IS possible for a more equitable world for us all. •
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#unlearningthecolonial
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#decoloniseeducationbc
#socialjusticeconference
#antiracismconference
#indigenioussovereignty
#blacklivesmatter
#bipocdisabilityjustice
#racialjusticebc

Meet our Organizers! . they/them/she/her/ • avne

Meet our Organizers!
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avneet is a second generation punjabi settler born on stolen QayQayt First Nation land and lives on unceded Coast Salish territories. as an interdisciplinary artist/educator she merges, writing, sound, somatic exploration, research, material study and various artistic practices. dedicated to social justice and autonomy for all, she is interested in the ways colonial violence permeates into the lived experiences of fellow BIPOC, LGBTQ2+ and disabled lives. mining from her own trauma as a survivor of sexual violence and a person with disabilities her focus remains steady on those struggling and fighting in the margins. through dismantling and healing avneet is committed to relearning and sharing ways that joy can thrive at the center of the work we do. with the inception of this imperative conference, avneet hopes to share and continue the difficult yet deeply liberating act of decolonising life as we know it through knowledge, expression, contemplation, sharing, laughter and community support. avneet holds a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art & Design, an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, yoga certification from Prana Yoga College and is currently navigating the BEd program at UBC. she looks forward to learning with you at this year’s conference!
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BC BIPOC Educators' Conference: Unlearning the Colonial
October 5, 2019
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