Term 5: Fall ’24

During the fall semester of 2024, we spent our Monday evenings together remotely with Dr. Sheelah McLeen, discussing the theory and practice of Anti-Racism within the context of Land-Based Education. This course functioned to contextualize racialization, including the historical, economic, and political processes and practices that contribute to its presence, recreation, and systemic entrenchment within educational spaces. An important topic that we discussed was the potential for Land-Based Education to contribute to the dismantling of Place-Based Education and Western standards of education that too often centre whiteness and Western standards as dominant. The course was strengthened through additional resources, including Gina Starblanket’s 2024 work, “Making Space for Indigenous Feminisms” (3rd edition).

At the same time of this course, I was also working away on this beaded necklace, which was a graduation gift for a friend and graduate of the MILBE program.