The youth-led digital art initiative is designed to empower them with critical digital literacy skills to create multimedia performances and installations that describe their experiences with hate, discrimination and cyberbullying. More...
Landscape of Hate is an improvised multimedia project that aims to promote and favour the public voice in framing pluralistic dialogues about how we negotiate various forms of hate in our society. Events are a combination of art expositions, panel discussions, debates, and performances. More...
This toolkit unpacks the problem of profiling in marginalized
communities. In holding up a mirror to Canadian society, the toolkit serves as a springboard for both individuals and groups to learn, empathize, reflect and explore possible solutions to social and racial profiling. More...
The Innovative Social Pedagogy to Empower Indigenous Communities, Reduce Gender, and Racial Biases team has worked with communities in Edmonton, Chicoutimi and Montreal to co-create, adapt and evaluate workshops, documentary features, and policy briefs related to dispossessed communities. More...
Explore your Echo is a media arts curricular resource to equip teachers, students and administrators with critical digital literacy skills. These resources explore questions pertaining to social media and online hate. Learners explore theoretical notions of hate speech, analyze these issues, and respond by creating artistic content. More...
This project is designed to help pre-service and practicing teachers discuss tough topics such as cyberbullying, microaggressions and harmful labelling with their students. These resources can be used to articulate youth's experiences with hate speech in their own lives. More...
This curricular resource leverages poetry to explore themes in literature that touch upon controversial issues. In writing poetry, students develop their creativity, communication skills and critical thinking skills. More...
This project presents in-depth analyses of life-course interviews with former members of extremist groups. These former extremists offer their candid opinions on ways recruitment into these groups can be prevented and countered, and on the options available to those who want to leave. More...
Someone has worked with community organizations to co-create documentaries and other social pedagogy interventions within different local communities. More...
Designed with different community stakeholders in mind, this Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) addresses current issues surrounding hate and radicalization head-on. Each module offers a wealth of current and actionable knowledge, exchanges with peers, and interactive exercises. More...
The resources provided can be used to build reflexivity and foster critical discussions about hate speech within the context of extreme metal music scenes. This includes the politics associated with the freedom of expression in niche cultural scenes. More...
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Corpus Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis is novel methodology used to detect patterns and trends of online hate across different social media platforms. In examining "words in context" we have developed policy briefs on issues of extremism, misogyny, femicide, and Islamophobia. More...