Congratulations to our BME day poster winners - Jaime Korner from the @TheElviraLab group winning the CAMTEC , Jon Walters-Shumka from my group winning the UVic Industry Partnerships prize, and Tess Carswell from Dr. JW Giles group winning the @UVicCBR prize! UniversityOfVictoria UVic Research

CIC Analytical Best Oral Presentation Winner: Jaime Korner and Analytical Best Oral Presentation Winner: Kaitlyn Ramsay both from @TheElviraLab ! #CBGRC2020

Congratulations to Jaime Korner Jaime Korner , the recipient of the 2021 CIC Analytical Chemistry Division Ryan-Harris award in honour of Walter E. Harris. Jaime is a graduate student working under the supervision of Prof. Katherine Elvira @TheElviraLab at Chemistry@UVic

Please join me in congratulating our Breakthrough of the Year 2020-21 award winners! @elanna_s / Jaime Korner (joint application), Honorable Mentions to Abdulaziz Alhussan & Ruchi Well done!👏👏👏👏

1920? #BFT

He puts black women + women in general on a pedestal and only discusses them in the context of acceptable roles--esp. mothers #BFT

@jasminejohn spillers writes "before the body there is flesh" jacobs' flesh suffered under the lash but her body took her to freedom #BFT

@jasminejohn spillers talks about the hieroglyphics placed upon women and we see that in the way that Jacobs is portrayed in the novel #BFT

Ideas of fatherlessness (or not deserving a father) in individual black families/individuals but also in communities #BFT

women also felt the pain of having children sold away from them or otherwise taken and often of of being unable to pursue romantic love #BFT

terrell writes about exclusion of black people from a huge variety of spaces + opportunities (employment, higher ed, physical spaces)

@jasminejohn Widespread oppression based on race seems especially heinous bcuz it illuminates chasm between laws/ideals and practice #BFT

It means that black folks could expect certain rights/privileges/aspects of living their choices but still be denied so much #BFT

Colorism--terrell's daughter's friends going to the movies and being able to "pass" except for one

Colorism--terrell's daughter's friends going to the movies and being able to "pass" except for one #BFT

#BFT black women's clubs formed, on a basic level, in response to even the most upper class black women being excluded from the white clubs

Ending of slavery + economic slowdown in the South + perceived increase in government acceptance of blackness (14th, 15th, reconstruction)