News
Who Wants to Know? FOI Requests in WR
TCE breaks down the last six years of freedom of information requests submitted to the region
Inside WR’s Sexual Assault Centre: A Community that Cares is Aware of Abuse
Nobody is alone at Waterloo Region's Sexual Assault/Domestic Violence treatment centre.
Working With Strangers
I worked in someone else's living room and I liked it.
Driving with the Dragon
New mobile outreach project hits the streets in K-W.
Unlearning Our Many Toxic Masculinities
Local men are working together to understand masculinity and the root causes of gendered violence.
Not Just for the Fellas
Successes and challenges for women in technology.
It Takes A City: Refugee Resettlement In WR
Media coverage of the arrival of Syrian refugees reflects our collective excitement, along with fear and uncertainty and anticipation. Yet the history of local refugee resettlement can ground us. Instead of asking, “how will we do it?” we can consider, instead, “how have we been doing it?”
People fled to Canada long before the label “refugee” became a legal way of categorizing those in need. Unless you are indigenous, you or your family arrived and had to integrate in some way. Often, this resettlement work is informally shouldered by those who once made a similar transition. Many of those unofficial settlement workers assisted others simply by being members of a community: by stepping in to translate because they knew the language, by helping find employment, by explaining the bus system, or where to find the best injera.
On Yoga, And Teaching What Wasn’t Ours
So why did I change my philosophical presentation of yoga, but still continue teaching the poses? The answer is complex. I have a deep, embodied relationship with the physical poses, one which I developed from my own personal investigation. I believe that movement practices are vital for our well-being, and I have seen many students derive great physical and emotional benefit from practicing yoga. It made sense to me to continue to offer my own embodied understanding of the physical practice of yoga to people, but share themes and metaphors that were from my own cultural background. However, I am also aware that this could be considered another, subtler form of cultural appropriation, one where the origins of a cultural practice are changed and/or erased.