{"id":69322,"date":"2020-11-23T13:29:34","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T18:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=69322"},"modified":"2020-11-23T15:01:14","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T20:01:14","slug":"virtual-discussion-to-explore-relationship-between-race-university-campuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2020\/11\/virtual-discussion-to-explore-relationship-between-race-university-campuses\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual discussion to explore relationship between race, university campuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">An upcoming virtual discussion hosted by Brock\u2019s Office of Human Rights and Equity (HRE) will explore race and racial injustices that occur on Canadian university campuses. <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Guest speaker Eternity Martis, an award-winning journalist and bestselling author of the memoir <i>They Said This Would Be Fun: Race, Campus Life, and Growing Up<\/i>, will lead the interactive discussion on Friday, Nov. 27 from noon to 2 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The book, which examines her personal experience as a student of colour at Western University, will be the basis of her presentation. The discussion will focus on the themes of race in Canadian university spaces, specifically focusing on predominately white institutions. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">In partnership with the Brock University Students\u2019 Union, FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre and St, Catharines theatre company Suitcase in Point, HRE developed this event to help create an open conversation about race and experiences of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Colour) students on campus. Additionally, Martis\u2019 memoir is a part of HRE\u2019s Black Reading Group, a book club created by HRE for Brock\u2019s BIPOC students to discuss novels by Black authors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The online event will also feature a student panel discussion moderated by HRE staff members. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">This event is open to all members of the community. For more information and to register, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.ca\/e\/eternity-martis-at-brock-tickets-129022956135\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"Hyperlink0\">Eventbrite<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An upcoming virtual discussion hosted by Brock\u2019s Office of Human Rights and Equity (HRE) will explore race and racial injustices that occur on Canadian university campuses. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":69323,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,4],"tags":[2203,9737,2909,2582,5502],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69322"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69324,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69322\/revisions\/69324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}