People of Colour Conference today in Nashville - important conversations and powerful people. Lisa Ling started it off by sharing Oprah’s advice to her ‘now that you know, you can no longer ignore’ #NAISPoCC @BishopStrachan

‘You cannot fool a child - they know when they are valued’ Thank you #MarianWrightEdelman for sharing your incredible experiences, perspectives, and call for change #NaisPOCC @BishopStrachan

‘To not preach, harangue or blame, but to witness, and in that witnessing, try to shift consciousness.’ They have a right to know the truths about the state of their world, and they have a right to imagine a hopeful future within it. Art Gallery of Ontario @BishopStrachan #anthropocene

Registration is open for the 2019 #ISOMA conference @BishopStrachan on Jan 17 goo.gl/forms/4AxrK0gr… Looking forward to the many presentations for K-12 teachers and keynote speaker Dr. Jane Heffernan

‘You have to feel the magic inside you... then it just comes and it helps you, like when you’re having trouble with your friends, your magic comes and it makes you able to fix it’ becoming unicorns, feeling the magic with g3&4’s in signature learning @BishopStrachan

‘I hear the heartbeat of the snow’ Melinda, g4. Enjoying the quiet of the world in winter, new adventures in the snow with friends, and even found some fungi friends 👋 ALIVE Outdoors @BishopStrachan

‘Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?’ - Frida Kahlo #BalancedForBetter #payequality #InternationalWomansDay @BishopStrachan

“The land knows you even when you are lost” - Robin Wall Kimmerer Legislative Assembly of Ontario: Protecting the Limerick Area and the Crowe Valley Watershed Conservation Area from Mining - Sign the petition! chng.it/R8vJJvq8 via Change.org Canada

Listen to the powerful testimony that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Veronica Escobar and Rashida Tlaib gave today about the horrors they witnessed at ICE detention camps. #CloseTheCamps

A legitimate question...to be answered by Indigenous communities.

Yesterday, 9 Six Nations land defenders were arrested by heavily armed police at the 1492 Land Back Lane protest against a housing development on Haudenosaunee territory near Caledonia, Ontario. For further context on this, please see pbicanada.org/2020/08/06/six…

This Monday, again let’s flood @KKR_co’s inboxes and phone lines demanding they stop investing in colonial violence on sovereign Wet’suwet’en territories - Coastal GasLink hasn’t backed down yet, so neither will we #ShutDownKKR #WetsuwetenStrong

Here are 5 ways we can begin to decolonize our #Thanksgiving. A THREAD⬇️⬇️⬇️

#EECOM2021 is now open for early bird registration! Experience over 100 leading environmental education speakers across 70+ sessions online from April 21-24, 2021. Plus, connect with attendees through special Nuit Verte social events. Register today: ecoschools.ca/eecom

"If Bell wants to get serious about mental health, it has to talk about the prison industrial complex and the direct role it plays in it." #BellLetsTalk Bell Let's Talk #cdnpoli CPEP Group Toronto Prisoners' Rights Project springmag.ca/bell-lets-talk…

Documenting learning as a way of listening and listening as a process of coming into relationship with the unfolding stories. “By the time you’ve told the story, it’s already changed”. Thank you jessie sawyers and Amanda Humphreys for an inspiring presentation at #EECOM2021!

It’s 2021 and if you’re curious just how bad things are, this was seen driving down the Vancouver Island highway. If I live long enough to see the last old growth logged, this image will be what haunts me. Resource extraction is a form of settler colonial violence.

Since I’m the only Indigenous person in the academic spaces I navigate, I’m always asked about land acknowledgements. So here are my common responses bc I try to keep in mind that everyone uses their “only X friend” to justify their racism at times. 🧵

Investigations & Expressions Professional Learning - BSS bss.on.ca/news-and-event… via @BishopStrachan