As a lab we devote time to educating ourselves on barries and systemic racism in science and beyond. This has been inspired by the BLM movement and #SHUTDOWNSTEM.
Each discussion is different in nature as we discuss content from a variety of mulitimedia platforms. We will post resources and links from our Friday conversations below.
Here is a PDF of questions to get the discussion started
Topics and Links
Summer 2024 Book club is here - we are reading Maya Dusenbery's Doing Harm The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick
04 December 2023 We met with Sarah Laframbroise from Evidence 4 Democracy who presented on activism, political engagement and support our science.
21 November 2022 We discussed Iran and the role of global science; a quick video summarizing recent events is here.
10 October 2022 After another hot summer, we picked up with a discussion on climate change. Of note, here is a brief summary of the latest IPCC report and why our voices matter.
29 June 2022 In light of the Roe v Wade decision, we used this two articles here and here to guide our discussion. We also discussed the purpose of this forum and more broadly our values.
16 June 2022 We are starting summer session with a discussion on the Right to Disconnect. Start with this overview, TedTalk and Ontario's new law.
10 March 2022 We are back after a brief hiatus; today is Book Club - Eternity Martis' They Said this Would be Fun.
16 November 2021 COP26 has been taking place in Glasgow, so we discussed climate change and how it affects inequalities - media list in PDF but start here and here
2 November 2021 We read the article How Latin American researchers suffer in science and discussed educational inequalities.
14 October 2021 We discussed Canada's National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. To get started read this and listen to this. Full list of material in PDF.
1 October 2021 We watched and discussed David France's How to Survive a Plague. NOTE you can ask your library for access to the film via Proquest.
September 2021 Fall book club selection is Eternity Martis' They Said this Would be Fun. This book is based on experiences at Western University that unfortunately still are part of campus life
27 August 2021 Book club is here - we read and discussed Caroline Criado Pérez's Invisible Women
30 July 2021 We read up on the impact of male-biased healthcare in addition to other systemic problems here, here, here, and here.
18 June 2021 We took a crash-course on the history of the Israel-Palestine relationship and some of the current inequities surrounding Covid-19 in the region. Additional videos and readings are included in the discussion document.
June 2021 Summer book club is back and the list we voted on was epic. The winner is Caroline Criado Pérez's Invisible Women
4 June 2021 We read Scientific American's gender pronoun essays (original,response, response2) and discussed usage in email signatures
9 April 2021 Book Club is here! Thomas Kings's The Inconvenient Indian.
19 March 2021 We watched and discussed Sharon Shattuck & Ian Cheney's Picture a Scientist. NOTE you can ask your library for access to the film via ProQuest.
5 March 2021 We mixed it up this week and discussed racial and gender discrimination in our hobbies. Really emphasizing this was an exercise where we google image searched our hobby - here is the collage.
12 February 2021 We read and summarized quantitative papers on gender inequities in STEM - slides here - and used Kathleen Grogran's article to formulate our discussion.
29 January 2021 We watched Kimberle Crenshaw's video describing intersectionality and listened to the Open Science Podcast where they discussed the importance of intersectional role models in STEM.
11 December 2020 We practiced intervention and addressing untruths - special thanks to Dr. Amy Moors for sharing some slides with us. This presentation got us started - email for scenarios.
December 2020 Votes are in - Winter 2021 book will be Thomas King's The Inconvenient Indian
27 November 2020 We educated ourselves on Mi’kmaw fishing rights and discussed this APTN article and MEDIA INDIGENA's roundtable
6 November 2020 We read and discussed Prakash Kashwan's article on environmental racism
23 October 2020 We educated ourselves on systemic racism of Indigenous peoples of Canada and discussed ongoing protests
9 October 2020 We watched Drew Hayden Taylor's documentary Cottagers & Indians
18 September 2020 We watched Dr. Tyrone Haye's Evnin Lecture
31 August 2020 Book Club is here! Ijeoma Oluo's So You Want to Talk about Race
14 August 2020 We read African Americans in evolutionary science: where we have been, and what’s next and made our own list
31 July 2020 We read Recreating Wakanda by promoting Black excellence in ecology and evolution by Schell et al.
17 July 2020 We listened to Feminista Jone's interview on the use of the term 'ally' - aired on CBCs Out in the Open
10 July 2020 We watched Desmond Cole's documentary The Skin We're in. Read our poems about the film here.
July 2020 Votes are in - Summer book will be Ijeoma Oluo's So You Want to Talk about Race
20 June 2020 Understanding terms and definitions
12 June 2020 General discussion and organization meeting
