Calgary Narrative Collective

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If you feel the need to post something on social media during "statement week" re: Black Lives Matter, by now there are 100s of postings to choose from. Here's an example that came to us via email from Skipper Otto! This makes it even more urgent to expect better from therapy/psychology/social work/psychiatry leadership. Read on: We want you to know that we at Skipper Otto unequivocally stand with Black Lives Matter and the fight for equity, social justice, and an end to poli...ce brutality. It was important for me to write this to you today because I cannot allow silence to imply ambivalence on this critically important issue. When George Floyd was killed two weeks ago, I, like many of you, was utterly overcome with despair over this tragedy and the magnitude of racial injustice against black people historically, and today. Ever since, I’ve been asking myself hard questions about what I am personally doing to acknowledge my white privilege and to use my privilege to improve the lives of black people, indigenous people, and people of colour. All of us at Skipper Otto feel the same way and, several times over the past two weeks, the team has engaged in tough, thoughtful conversations about racial injustice and what we can do to address it. Our colonial privilege and systemic injustice was many generations in the making, and it will take listening and disrupting business-as-usual to begin to offer reconciliation for those wrongs. We know the answers are not simple. What I can tell you is this: we are working hard on short, medium, and long-term actions and intentional efforts to be actively anti-racist. We are currently examining how our hiring and fisherman-recruiting processes can more intentionally recruit indigenous people and people of colour. We are committed to listening to Black Lives Matter, Idle No More, and other local and international racial justice movements as well as to our members and our fishing communities. And we are committed to updating you regularly on the concrete actions we will take today, tomorrow, and for the years ahead to fight racism and help realize a vision for racial equity. We started Skipper Otto in 2008 with the express purpose of building a vehicle for social change in the fishing industry. We’re in this for the long haul and we’re committed to the hard work that’s needed to help realize racial justice together. Sonia and Shaun Strobel and the entire Skipper Otto Family.

Dear leadership of the PAA and the CPA we the therapists and psychologists at the Calgary Narrative Collective are deeply disappointed by your statement on Anti-Black Racism. As leaders and educators and, as you say, the voice of psychology in Alberta and in Canada, we hoped that you would set a principled example for psychologists across the country in our ethical responsibility to dismantle racism in our therapy offices, with our colleagues, in classrooms, and in our comm...Continue reading

Just listen to her! https://forge.medium.com/performative-allyship-is-deadly-c9

https://www.ted.com//travis_heath_self_care_to_communities

Collective Pandemic Poem #3: Do you hear the pots banging And the people shouting to each other From the balconies... At 7PM before the night of a 1000 restless sleep-ins? The dreamers take their courage in their hands To give a sharp shape to all our nebulous fears: The bugs bite at one’s body at night One is trapped alive in a sleep unable to reach for a hand One has been shunned to live in a colony too far to find home One cannot find a space to lay their tired head And one broke the rules to think critically And came out of her tent to talk to the other fasters. When they say 2020 is a writeoff I want to take to my pots too: Do you hear those pots The riotous roots Who were just asleep with unconscious reflecting? Do you hear The ambition arising out of numbness The desire from the monotony of lonely meals The good mind from between unfinished afghans and average mystery novels: I don’t want to get used To barely seeing anybody I want you close I want you beside me This is hurting. I dream of a day when you’ll be there once again My stranger My sibling in the night Say this to me then: Oh my mermaid, hello. Good morning.