Activists & Activisms Student Blog

by the 2021 WMST 3122H/4122H class

This page showcases blog posts from the students of May's 2021 Activists & Activisms undergraduate class. These student pieces explore and engage with a variety of social justice issues, activisms, forms of solidarity work, and social change-making efforts. We are grateful to the 2021 Activists & Activisms class for sharing their passionate ideas with our participants and community and contributing to our activist research program.

These posts are unedited, posted as the students originally wrote them.

The Meaning behind my Creative Piece “We all can be Activists”

Margaret Williams

Apr 16, 2021

The Meaning behind my Creative Piece “We all can be Activists”

My Creative Song is a form of resistance against systems of oppression in society that perpetuates Racism, Colonialism, and Sexism. I...

Jessica Mercier

Apr 8, 2021

Poison

My breasts hold the poison of colonial and patriarchal development. My breasts hold lead from paint in the house I grew up in. My breasts...

Batoul Dabbah

Apr 7, 2021

Coexisting

she stands here to fight To fight for her people To fight for the voiceless To fight for those who have been silenced she fights for the...

Leah Blackwood

Apr 6, 2021

Becoming an Activist

I was not sure what I was expecting when I joined this course, all that I knew was that I did not consider myself an activist because I...

Andrea Wilks

Apr 6, 2021

A Second Look

The Activists and Activisms course has allowed me to see that there are many different forms of activism. The course material gave me a...

Alexandria Beck

Apr 5, 2021

AI Beck blog post

Image: Tattoo art by Vegas. Hi readers! My name is Alexandria Beck, I am a straight cis-white woman from a low income household. As I...

Bayley Smith

Apr 5, 2021

Reproductive justice

Reproductive justice has always been an important social justice issue to me. This piece depicts an abstract line art of a fetus and...

Madison Marvin

Apr 5, 2021

Eyes

They say that the eyes are a window into the soul. But my eyes are as dark as an endless abyss, so what does that say about what lies...

Rachel Crouse

Apr 4, 2021

Rachel Crouse's blog post

Hello! My name is Rachel Crouse, and I have been tuning into this course from Dundas, Ontario, which has been built on the traditional...

Robin Brownlee

Apr 4, 2021

Robin Brownlee's blog post

Image retrieved from rappler.com The dominant ideas of what activism should look like are defined by images of angry protestors,...

Cavell Wood

Apr 4, 2021

Cavell Wood's blog post

Image: Jameela Jamil and Matt McGorry, from Earwolf I really struggled to pinpoint what I wanted to talk about for this last submission....

We Should not have to Hurt in Silence Anymore

Tishawna Ashman

Apr 4, 2021

We Should not have to Hurt in Silence Anymore

We should not have to hurt in silence anymore Disabled people are not tokens for your charity tours The world’s inaccessibility...

Haley Salmon

Apr 4, 2021

Haley Salmon's blog post

I have discovered very much about what it means to become an activist and the significant role that activism plays in my life...

Julia Azarello

Apr 4, 2021

Desiderium

Content warning: This post and the film it references discuss suicide. For my final blog post I have chosen a short film titled...

Ashley Frimpong-Manso

Apr 3, 2021

What is disability?

Image: collage by student I have created a small collage of images that represent disability. From past courses, I have learned that the...

Brooke Lawler

Apr 2, 2021

Leaky Bucket

My art piece is based on the poem “Rise Like the Sun” by Ziysah von Bieberstein. Within the course Activists and Activisms, Ziysah’s...

Kaitlyn Bracken

Apr 2, 2021

Yes All Women

Content warning: This post discusses violence against women, sexual assault, rape, cat-calling, and unwanted male sexual attention. I’m...

Kathleen Tigwell

Apr 2, 2021

Kathleen Tigwell's blog post

Image: portrait of Syrus Marcus Ware by Jalani Morgan With school being online, many classes had guest lecturers come in and talk to...

Kimberly Broni

Apr 2, 2021

ACTIVIST

Image: Jimmie Fails, Jonathan Majors, and Danny Glover photographed in an embrace of unity as cast mates from ‘The Last Black Man in San...

Shania Surujnarain

Apr 1, 2021

#MeToo Movement

Content warning: This post mentions sexual assault. Free verse: #MeToo End our fear I know longer want to look behind me when I walk End...

Mackenzie Buckland

Feb 26, 2021

Mackenzie Buckland's blog post

Content warning: This blog post mentions sexual violence, abuse, assault, harm, and abortion. The embedded Instagram post includes news...

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