BIPOC Academic Coalition

Dobler, our semi-regular guest, joins us to discuss the growing university campus protests in the Global North against the genocide in Gaza, and compare action and inaction that is happening in Canadian higher education spaces. We discuss the performative nature of Canadian academia’s dedication to decolonization and how their settler colonialism truth and reconciliation promises reveal themselves...

We continue our discussion of the 2022 decision made in arbitration between York University and the York University Faculty Association regarding making justice public and connect administrative tactics of using racial stereotypes to elicit shame and a desire for secrecy (NDA) in the target of discrimination. We also discuss Shai Davidai, a Columbia University business professor, and his request t...

The #metoo movement publicly named and exposed individuals who were accused of sexual assault, therefore should individuals accused of racism in academia get the same treatment? In this episode, we discuss the efforts from universities that shield the names and actions of White people accused of racism within these institutions, yet who allow the BIPOC accuser’s name to be sullied through retaliat...

In this episode, we continue our conversation about Columbia University and the corporate administration (and faculty) attack on students’ liberties to do what youth are supposed to do in higher education: Think critically. Protesting injustices, freedom of expression, liberties to speak against prevailing norms, questioning authority and other counterculture acts are all hallmarks of the student...

Columbia University Professor and Secretary Hillary Rodham-Clinton, takes the stage to give her unbiassed and neutral analysis of women as targets of sexual violence in war, with the support of her Dean, Keren Yarhi-Milo, retired IDF intelligence officer, and both are SHOCKED to receive pushback from university students questioning their complicity in ongoing violence against the women of Gaza. In...

Recovering from a backlog of recorded episodes (due to technical and health issues) this discussion was recorded the day after International Women’s Day. While White women in Canada, the USA and the rest of the West overwhelm most of the attention, we discuss how BIPOC women’s opinions, research, life experience and issues are overlooked. White women, like Nancy Pelosi, tweet protecting women's re...

We tackle one of the most frightening, predictable, calculating, and exhausting phenomena facing BIPOC in higher education: White Women’s Tears. White women’s tears as a weapon have been an accusation and/or debate in the media and arts for decades, and include fictional accounts, such as the novel and film, A Passage to India, and historical realities, such as the lynching of 14-year-old Emmit Ti...

Recent US house congressional hearings on “Antisemitism on College Campuses” witnessed three university (Harvard, MIT & University of Pennsylvania) Presidents (all women) respond to accusations on the lack of safety for Jewish Students on campus and hear politician opinions on Pro-Palestinian voices being akin to calls for genocide. Republican, Elise Steffinik, received the greatest amount of...

A towering figure in anti-colonial thought, Frantz Fanon has been a constant source of reference to Canadian academia as higher education attempts to shed its own colonial foundation. A quote on an email signature or placed within a course outline, portrays a professor in a radical light, willing to take risks for the sake of social justice. However, Fanon was not only an intellectual giant, but a...

We started off with good intentions, hoping to discuss Fanon and his position on authentic decolonization, but we ended up getting sidetracked in a conversation comparing the promise of Canada and its academic institutions and the workplace realities of the institution for BIPOC faculty, students, and staff. We also discuss the dehumanization that occurs in these public institutions.

Despite increasing support for Palestinians in Canada, the USA, the UK and other Global North countries, Higher Education in the West continues to aggressively dissuade and punish students and faculty in speaking out or debating the plight of historic and ongoing human suffering in Palestine. Is the message from administration neutral and in favour of impartiality, or do their actions speak to a c...

A month and a half of vicious genocidal attacks on the people of Gaza. Academia in Canada, United States, UK, and France have taken a very pro-Israel stance, and have participated in the active intimidation of Pro-Palestinian faculty and students. What does this mean for BIPOC members in Higher Education? In this episode, we discuss the atmosphere of overt and covert intimidation on Global North u...

In this introductory episode, Aime, Christine and C. Darius discuss the need for a coalition of BIPOC Academics in response to the prevalent problem of Higher Education not being able to address the disproportionally low rates of “secure” employment for BIPOC people, compared to the White population. A brief overview is given to the purpose of the podcast as a form to challenge status-quo, and not...