In a Globe and Mail op-ed published on May 28, University of Toronto professor and Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation (PETF) fellow, Joseph Heath, questioned the relevance of the acronym, BIPOC(for Black, Indigenous and People of Colour), for Canada. As current and former PETF scholars (*), we want to distance ourselves from this enterprise, which furthers a reactionary discourse that discredits the knowledge produced by non-white scholars and activists: notably Critical Race Theory, Decolonial and Postcolonial theories, and Black Feminist thought.
The Road to Mandarin
Anyone learning Mandarin as a non-native will probably, at some stage of their learning journey, curse at how much of a pain it is.…