ᐁᔭᓂᐊᐧᐢᑌᓂᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᐁᐧᐡᑲᐨ ᑲᑭᐱᑎᐸᑎᒋᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᑭᑎᒪᑭᐦᐃᐁᐧᐃᐧᐣ ᒥᓇ ᑭᑭᓄᒪᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᐅᒪ ᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ
This module addresses learning challenges in decolonization, anti-racism, and accessibility in educational institutions.
We trace the histories of these institutions producing and disseminating oppressive knowledge to present day inequities and work to counter them in both our course design process and outcome.
In Ontario, eugenics (a faulty pseudo-science focused on human betterment through heredity) created the conditions for dehumanization and devaluing difference.
It spawned policies and practices that targeted First Nations and settler people who did not fit white settler colonial worldviews, including Black people and other racialized groups as well as poor, disabled, labelled-as-disabled, and LGBTQ+ people through institutional confinement, restrictive marriage and immigration laws, and coercive sterilization.
Our module addresses this history and legacy by offering learning opportunities through an accessible online learning space, in part, as a response to Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (2015) and the Huronia Settlement and Liberal Government Apology (2013) and to foster social justice broadly in education.
In each part of the module, the survivors introduce themselves and share their intentions to teach and generate change. When you wish to engage with their stories, think through your own connections to histories of land settlement (“settler colonialism”) and ideas of desirable and undesirable people (“eugenics”).
- What are your intentions as a learner?
- What do you have to offer in terms of your own lived experiences?
Into the Light: An Interpretation of Two Research Papers
Directed and performed by Jessie Huggett and Rachel Gray, this film is an interpretation of the following 2021 research papers: “Projecting Eugenics and Performing Knowledges” by Evadne Kelly, Seika Boye, and Carla Rice, and “Elements of a Counter‐exhibition: Excavating and Countering a Canadian History and Legacy of Eugenics” by Evadne Kelly, Dolleen Tisawii’ashii Manning, Seika Boye, Carla Rice, Dawn Owen, Sky Stonefish, and Mona Stonefish.
When you feel you are ready to respectfully engage with the content of this module, you can click the link below to open this externally hosted module.
A tall maple tree with branches full of yellow fall leaves. A bright sun pokes through the leaves on the center left.
