The Biology EDI Committee is pleased to be able to offer our first internal EDI workshop. We invite all faculty, department and research staff, graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, research associates, and biology undergraduates to join us in welcoming Yahlnaaw, EQHR Indigenous Rights and Anti-Racism Officer. Please share this invite with anyone not on the biology distribution lists.
In this workshop, you can expect to hear about important equity-seeking topics and be able to contribute to a discussion surrounding EDI. The discussion portion of the workshop will invite you to ask the tough questions (for example, how might I decolonize my biology course curriculum? How is this related to my biology course?).
We hope you will join us Thursday, May 5, 1:00 – 3:30 PM on Zoom.
To register, please contact biology.edi@uvic.ca.
Message from Yahlnaaw:
Jah XaaydaGa ‘Las (Hello Wonderful People)! Yahlnaaw (she/her) leads the session, Kil KaahlGalangdal – “Hear Someone’s Voice Before You See Them”: Anti-Oppression Key Principles, Knowledges, and Equity-Focused Action-Based Frameworks through critical equity-seeking topics. Topics covered will include, but are not limited to: white supremacy, white privilege, white fragility, settler moves to innocence, microaggressions, colonization, decolonization, Indigenization, Rematriation, MMIWG2S, intersectionality, and EDI.
Yahlnaaw identifies as a Skidegate Haida, queer, transgender woman which often feels like limbs stretched into many intersecting worlds. Yahlnaaw aims to bridge these epistemologies (ways of knowing), ontologies (ways of being) and axiology (values) into her work to set the stage for the rest of our living and learning journeys.