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Andrew B. Campbell, Adjunct Assistant Professor at Queens University, shares with us a set of recommendations to navigate the difficult conversations that lead us to positive change.

Our December blogger is Xin Sun, a recent ���ϳԹ���Դ graduate and an active member of the ���ϳԹ���Դ & Kingston communities as a Disability and Social Justice Advocate. In her piece, she discusses the importance of unlearning narrow understandings of disability and accessibility.

Paige Van Tassel, an Anishinaabe and ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐤ (Cree) registered with Grassy Narrows First Nation doctoral candidate with the Department of Art History and Art Conservation at ���ϳԹ���Դ, tells her experience facilitating the KAIROS blanket exercise and shares the importance of re-learning indigenous lived histories.

Vanessa McCourt, Academic Advisor and Undergraduate Program Coordinator in the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, talks about the importance of having courageous conversations.

The school year is starting with many changes and uncertainties. But in times of crisis, solidarity becomes key.

Alana Butler, Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at ���ϳԹ���Դ, walks us through the importance of moving from awareness to action in relation to our anti-racism commitments.

Ann Deer, Indigenous Recruitment & Support Coordinator for the Smith Commerce program and the Faculty of Law, shares her story and invites us to think about the importance of building community.

Think not forever of yourself, O Chiefs,

nor of your generation.

Think of continuing generations of our families,

think of our grandchildren

and of those yet unborn,