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This online workshop aims to unpack the model minority myth and the role it plays on anti-Asian racism that has been amplified during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is an opportunity to share and reflect on your own experiences with the myth, and develop different strategies to support those who disclose experiences of anti-Asian racism within intersecting communities. While this workshop is geared towards building a collective and diverse memory of anti-Asian racism and developing tools to challenge it, participants should also come prepared to question their privilege and how this myth is being used to divide communities of colour.
Please note that this online workshop is part of a pilot program and space is limited to only 18 participants. Priority will be given to mobilizers from groups directly impacted by anti-Asian racism, who are invested in developing skills to facilitate and navigate discussions about anti-Asian racism in their own communities and organizations.
Workshop participants are required to complete anonymous pre-workshop and post-workshop surveys. Workshop attendees should also be prepared for active participation during the workshop.
THE WORKSHOP PROGRAM FEATURES:
Ellen K. (project 1907), Presenter
Ellen is a co-founder and community organizer with project 1907, living, learning and organizing on the unceded homelands of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. On a journey of reclaiming her Korean heritage, she draws on her lived experiences to advocate for the inclusion of Asian voices in political, social and cultural discourse.
Ellen has worked in the community and social services sector for a decade, accompanying communities oppressed by manufactured poverty, white supremacy and trauma in both formal and informal roles. She brings a background in elicitive conflict transformation, nonviolent crisis intervention and embodied facilitation techniques to her anti-racism work.
Dr. Guofang Li, Presenter
Dr. Li is a professor in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia (UBC). She holds the Canada Research Chair in Transnational/ Global Perspectives of Language and Literacy Education of Children and Youth. Her research aims to help immigrant and minority students succeed by addressing the sociocultural and structural barriers to literacy learning and academic achievement, family engagement and teacher education.
Dr. Li has published 14 books including Model Minority Myths Revisited: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Demystifying Asian American Education Experiences (2008), which won the 2011 Publication Award from the Association of Chinese Professors of Social Sciences in the United States.
Dr. Li has also published close to 200 journal articles and book chapters and presented over 200 papers worldwide. Her work has been recognized by numerous awards including the 2016 Mid-Career Award from the Second Language Research Special Interest Group (SIG), American Educational Research Association (AERA), the 2013 and 2006 Ed Fry Book Award of the Literary Research Association (LRA), the 2010 AERA Early Career Award, and the 2008 Social Context of Education Division Early Career AERA Award.
Chanelle Tye, Workshop Facilitator
Chanelle Tye is an equity and inclusion collaborator and facilitator who specializes in the areas of anti-racism and sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI). As a dynamic, people-first educator, she believes that all people can learn to work for the collective good. She was most recently the Provincial SOGI Education Lead with ARC Foundation and the BC Ministry of Education and is currently pursuing a Masters of Education in Equity Studies at Simon Fraser University. Chanelle has settled on the unceded, ancestral, and rightful territory of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) peoples who have been its stewards since time immemorial.
This workshop is organized by the Vancouver Asian Film Festival (VAFF) with major support from Simon Fraser University (SFU). The workshop takes place on the unceded Indigenous land belonging to Coast Salish peoples, including the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.
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