I would love for everyone to introduce themselves, say why you're interested in this group, and (if you're comfortable) name something about you that's unique, unusual, or diverse!
On the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence against Women, we pause to remember the 14 women who died tragically @polymtl in 1989 and the women and girls for whom gender-based viole...
December 10th we mark International Human Rights Day. It's a day to commemorate the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Universal Declaration has inspired the creation of laws to protect ...
...hat we celebrate. I found the list on the Diversity Resources calendar. December is often seen as the last month of the year, but that’s true only of the western Gregorian calendar. Chinese, I...
Another beautiful information graphic by my former colleague Peter, including the wheel of pain, which identifies client pain points. http://www.elanica.com/eyecues/EyeCues1.pdf Would love to hear ...
I recently read the article "Ageism is everywhere — here's what we can do about it" and found it to be eye opening. Growing older is such a privilege, my Dad died at 46 and never got to grow old...
I took this course a few years ago and highly recommend it! It starts tomorrow but there are multiple offerings. It is 1-2 hours a week for 12 weeks. Indigenous Canada is a 12-lesson Massive Open ...
HOPE. CULTURE. STRENGTH. We Matter is an Indigenous youth-led and nationally registered non-profit organization committed to Indigenous youth support, hope and life promotion. Their founding projec...
The aim of International Day of Persons with Disabilities is to promote an understanding of disability issues and mobilize support for the dignity, rights and well-being of persons with disabili...
I just read this article by Sarah Liu, busting five common myths about Diversity and Inclusion. It was the first time I had heard the term ‘Artificial harmony’. It is the idea that diverse and ...
Interesting article on using VR to make Diversity Training more effective by Rebekah Bastian, here is an excerpt from the interview with Myra LalDin: Bastian: How do you think VR helps p...
Saw this tweet and wanted to share: 🏳️⚧️⚢ TransEthics™🧜🏻♀️🏳️🌈 (@TransEthics) 2019-11-24, 11:55 PM Hey #LGBTQ+ folks with non-supportive families: The Holiday seas...
Interesting topic "the Apple and Goldman Sachs Credit Card", that was discussed on a webex I watched this morning. " A tech entrepreneur, David Heinemeier Hansson, first raised the issue when he twe...
Transgender Awareness Week is a week when transgender people and their allies take action to bring attention to the community by educating the public about who transgender people are, sharing stories...
The Transgender Day of Remembrance, also known as the International Transgender Day of Remembrance, has been observed annually on November 20 as a day to memorialize those who have been murdered as a...
I love this video "Comfortable: 50 People 1 Question" - it is amazing to see the diversity of responses from the adults, to the responses from the children - the children interpreted the questi...
I just read this article called "Designing for Diversity", with particular interest in the " user research session where the organizers brought in a visually impaired person as part of use...
The Canada School of Public Service is doing a spotlight on ACCESSibility Series, stay tuned for my sessions at the following website: https://www.csps-efpc.gc.ca/events/spotlight-access/index-...
Women in Canada and around the world continue to face violence every day. Throughout the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, which begins on the International Day for the Elimi...
My colleague shared this article about pronouns and the author " rounded up some responses to the most common weird questions" they get about their pronouns. Here's one example: “You look like a...
The Canada School of Public Service hosted a learning event on November 18th called "From Purge to Pride – LGBTQ2+ in the Federal Public Service". I am going to try to view the on-demand video as wel...
Check out all the Bullying Awareness Week tweets I saw this shared by a school: A selection of books about #BullyingAwarenessWeek bullying available from the Library @StokeySchool . Also a...
Earlier in the year, my friend Peter published an infographic about the nine major ways in which bias creeps into machine learning. "Machine learning recognizes patterns and anomalies in data...
