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Increasingly, democratic states and institutions are facing a combination of external and internal challenges. These challenges, impacts, and intersections are taken up by our faculty.

How prisons are using COVID-19 containment measures as a guise for torture
6 May 2022

How prisons are using COVID-19 containment measures as a guise for torture

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Written by Jessica Evans, Toronto Metropolitan University; Linda Mussell, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa . Photo credit:  THE CANADIAN PRESS/Lars Hagberg. Originally published in The Conversation. An inmate can be seen inside a segregation cell at the Collins Bay Institution in Kingston, … Continued

Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee comes amid her declining health, royal backlash and a colonial reckoning
20 Apr 2022

Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee comes amid her declining health, royal backlash and a colonial reckoning

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Written by Catherine Ellis, Ryerson University. Photo credit: AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali. Originally published in The Conversation. The screen in Piccadilly Circus is lit to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth’s accession to the throne. A platinum jubilee is unprecedented for … Continued

Ukraine war highlights the Canadian military’s urgent need for a lifeline
13 Apr 2022

Ukraine war highlights the Canadian military’s urgent need for a lifeline

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Written by Andrea Riccardo Migone, Ryerson University; Alexander Howlett, Ryerson University. Photo credit: THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck. Originally published in The Conversation. A crew member throws a line ashore as the Royal Canadian Navy’s newest Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ship, … Continued

Jada Pinkett Smith and Black women’s hair: History of disrespect leads to the CROWN Act
6 Apr 2022

Jada Pinkett Smith and Black women’s hair: History of disrespect leads to the CROWN Act

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Written by Cheryl Thompson, Ryerson University. Photo credit: AP/Noah Berger. Originally published in The Conversation. Black women have been fighting for decades for the right to wear their natural hair. Here Jada Pinkett Smith arrives at the premiere of ‘The … Continued

Will Smith’s Oscar slap reveals fault lines as he defends Jada Pinkett Smith against Chris Rock, with Cheryl Thompson
31 Mar 2022

Will Smith’s Oscar slap reveals fault lines as he defends Jada Pinkett Smith against Chris Rock, with Cheryl Thompson

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Why is board gaming so white and male? I’m trying to figure that out
28 Mar 2022

Why is board gaming so white and male? I’m trying to figure that out

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Written by Tanya A Pobuda, Ryerson University. Photo credit: Shutterstock. Originally published in The Conversation. Does this lack of representation matter to board gamers? Board games have been having a bit of a cultural moment. They experienced a resurgence of … Continued

Both facts and fake news about the Russian invasion of Ukraine are spread on social media
17 Mar 2022

Both facts and fake news about the Russian invasion of Ukraine are spread on social media

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Written by Richard Lachman, Ryerson University. Photo credit: Shutterstock. Originally published in The Conversation. Social media has allowed fake news about the Ukraine invasion to proliferate. As the story goes, in the 1780s, a former lover of the Empress of … Continued

How LGBTQ2+ 1980s dance parties sparked collective joy and power — and can again
10 Mar 2022

How LGBTQ2+ 1980s dance parties sparked collective joy and power — and can again

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Written by Craig Jennex, Ryerson University. Photo credit: (Philip Share/Craig Jennex), Author provided (no reuse). Originally published in The Conversation. The dance floor was a place of belonging in the face of homophobic violence, the HIV/AIDS epidemic and moralistic representations of … Continued

Black youth yearn for Black teachers to disrupt the daily silencing of their experiences
1 Mar 2022

Black youth yearn for Black teachers to disrupt the daily silencing of their experiences

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Written by Olufunke Oba, Ryerson University. Photo credit: Shutterstock. Originally published in The Conversation. Most youth in a Waterloo region study were found to have never been taught by a Black teacher. The annual Black History month school assemblies is fading … Continued

How American singer, actor and civil rights activist Paul Robeson became a hero in China
8 Feb 2022

How American singer, actor and civil rights activist Paul Robeson became a hero in China

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Written by Gao Yunxiang, Ryerson University. Photo credit: Gordon Parks for the U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information/Wikimedia/Keynote records. Originally published in The Conversation. In 1941, Robeson recorded an album of Chinese fighting and folk songs with activist Liu Liangmo with … Continued

The cost of inaction for youth ‘aging out’ of Ontario foster care is estimated at $2 billion
3 Jan 2022

The cost of inaction for youth ‘aging out’ of Ontario foster care is estimated at $2 billion

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Written by Linda Mussell, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa; Marsha Rampersaud, Ryerson University. Photo credit: Shutterstock. Originally published in The Conversation. Reinvesting some of the $2 billion Ontario is spending could keep more families together. Last spring, the Ontario government committed to … Continued

Income inequality and COVID-19: We are in the same storm, but not in the same boat
22 Dec 2021

Income inequality and COVID-19: We are in the same storm, but not in the same boat

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Written by James Davies, Western University; Edgardo Sepulveda, Ryerson University. Photo credit: AP Photo/Mary Altaffer. Originally published in The Conversation. Last May, churches in low income communities across New York offered COVID-19 testing to residents in conjunction with Northwell Health … Continued

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