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Special Newsletter: November 2024
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The SHIFT Journal of Social Transformation
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As a non-academic university unit, the SHIFT Journal provides an avenue for our partners to publish through an institution regardless of their involvement in academia, and outside of the challenges of rigid publication rules.
Shared power is SHIFT’s core operating principle. With the Journal, we hope to share not just the lessons we've learned over the last five years of SHIFT, but also the many exciting and alternative paths that our wider community is taking towards a more just future.
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Read our first set of featured articles:
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By Autumn Godwin
Through her organization "Buckskin Babes," Autumn leads moose-hide tanning camps for urban Indigenous youth and Elders alike. In this piece, originally from May 2023, she explains why the word "revitalization" doesn't fit the project.
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By Andrea Clarke
In this first part of her short series, Andrea shares her reflections on what university institutions can learn about community collaboration and feedback from units like SHIFT.
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By Richenda Grazette
Imagine a world in which there are no boards or donors, and all decisions about resource distribution are collectively held and community-accountable. How would that impact the ways in which we fund? How would we manage risk?
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By Lena Andres
In September, SHIFT welcomed speakers Phillipe Koffi, Gabriela Gomez, and Dominic Barter to sit on a panel together about responding to conflict within communities both formal and informal. Here's some of our takeaways.
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The SHIFT Journal accepts submissions from our wider community for both original and pre-written content. We don’t have a specific desired format, and accept everything including blog or journalistic writing, research or academic work, and visual or video arts.
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NEXT WEEK: From Cultural Roots to Visionary Futures
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This month at SHIFT, we’ll learn alongside members of JIA Foundation about their work to celebrate and deepen connections to cultural heritage in the Chinatown community. Through festivals and storytelling, advocacy and shared meals, JIA Foundation creates conditions for the development of collective, visionary futures anchored in justice, cultural identity and solidarity.
Featured guests:
- Michelle Tatebe-Larocque 余缘 has a strong interest in the intersections of identity, race, social justice and food (in)security, and particularly in how agriculture can be a tool for cultural (re)appropriation. In addition to working with JIA foundation, they are an active member of Kahéhtaien Lumb Garden and Chinatown Youth.
- Parker Mah 馬世聰 is a fourth-generation Chinese Montrealer of Toisanese descent, based in Tio’tia:ke. Multimedia artist, musician, and DJ, his diverse body of work tackles themes and realities of migration, hybridization and identity. He is also active in different cultural and activist spacesl as a curator, moderator, trainer and community organizer.
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