As some of you may already know I am on the editorial collective at Ricochet, a new independent media project for progressive voices. For those who know me personally or […]
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Melissa Fong: On #Marxism, #intersectionality & building meaningful solidarity w/ #PoC #WoC
On Class-wars, intersectionality and building meaningful solidarity from PoCs This is an appeal to activists, allies and future activist/allies to figure out how we can do some coalition building in […]
Continue readingMelissa Fong: Things I realize after getting many hater-comments & trolls: On #Intersectionality, #oppression & other stuff
Things I realize after getting many hater-comments and trolls: 1) The world is not ready for Critical Race Theory or talking about the process of “Whiteness” and “racialization”. I thought […]
Continue readingMelissa Fong: Arundhati Roy: A voice for women of colour; opportunity stifled?
“Incredibly disappointed with the organizers of Arundhati Roy’s talk…. did not allow Arundhati to bring out any of her work or political analysis in any meaningful way. The guy talked about typical White Vancouver nonsense …”- Jahanzeb Hussain making critical points on what it means to exercise privilege and teaching
Continue readingMelissa Fong: DTES Local Area Plan- Speaker #5, on Amendments
We need to respect the experiential knowledge of DTES residents that understand how the plan violates their security. Not fundamentally opposed to Vision- but you have to realize reality. If you insist on the ideology of “social mix” you also have to set up the circumstances for dignity of all
Continue readingMelissa Fong: Ignorance VS Hatefulness: How to talk about explain gay-bashing in Sochi
I’m kind of tired of people describing some racists, misogynists and homophobes as “ignorance”. ’Ignorance’ means that they just don’t know better, they are missing information and they just need […]
Continue readingMelissa Fong: Boston & People of colour’s pain
Perspectives like mine and others’ that alluded to the fact that killing elsewhere gets less attention than the Boston bombing got a lot of backlash. (I should say that it got more support than criticism, but we always focus on the negative things, don’t we?). One of the main criticisms
Continue readingMelissa Fong: On bombings and who gets our compassion
“Do I advise you to love thy neighbor? I suggest rather to escape from thy neighbor and to love those who are the farthest away from you. Higher than the love for thy neighbor is the love for the man who is distant and has still to come.” -Nietzsche (This
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