{"id":76866,"date":"2022-03-03T09:57:26","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T14:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=76866"},"modified":"2022-03-03T16:20:23","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T21:20:23","slug":"tiktok-activist-to-discuss-anti-racism-disability-justice-at-brock-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2022\/03\/tiktok-activist-to-discuss-anti-racism-disability-justice-at-brock-event\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok activist to discuss anti-racism, disability justice at Brock event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Brock University and Niagara communities are invited to attend an upcoming free virtual event featuring TikTok star and disability and inclusion activist Imani Barbarin.<\/p>\n<p>Known online as @crutches_and_spice, Barbarin uses social media to share her experiences as a Black woman living with cerebral palsy and create conversations that engage the disability community.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.ca\/e\/crutchesspice-the-world-isnt-nice-tickets-288187124447\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Crutches&amp;Spice, The World Isn\u2019t Nice<\/a> online event on Monday, March 7, Barbarin will discuss anti-racism and disability justice, Black women\u2019s activism via TikTok and how humour can be used as a tool to actualize resistance and change. Following the talk, there will be a student panel discussion, with questions invited from the audience.<\/p>\n<p>Held from noon to 1 p.m. on Zoom, the event is organized in collaboration with the Brock Student Justice Centre; Brock University Students\u2019 Union; Centre for Pedagogical Innovation; President\u2019s Advisory Committee on Human Rights, Equity and Decolonization (PACHRED); and PACHRED\u2019s Sexual Violence Prevention Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Register for the event <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.ca\/e\/crutchesspice-the-world-isnt-nice-tickets-288187124447\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on Eventbrite<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brock University and Niagara communities are invited to attend an upcoming free virtual event featuring TikTok star and disability and inclusion activist Imani Barbarin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":76867,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,9794],"tags":[2203,133,2582,6841,8219,1254],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76866"}],"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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76868,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76866\/revisions\/76868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}