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Tag Archives: Reena Virk
A KICK[in the ass]START FROM A READER: PLANNING FOR YEAR 3
A KICK[in the ass from a reader]START: PLANNING FOR YEAR 3 By Jorge Antonio Vallejos I am in my office: my room. My ass is on the hardwood floor, boxes of books are all around me, stacks of The New Yorker … Continue reading
FORGIVE AND EDUCATE KYLA PAWIS AKA RACIST BRAMPTON GIRL HATES BROWN PEOPLE
White Supremacy has been on my mind this week as I saw a lot of it on Face Book via links to articles and videos. I wrote an article called White Supremacy All Around Me. A video by Kyla Pawis helped … Continue reading
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Tagged bell hooks, Black Coffee Poet, Black Coffee Poet VLOG, Canadian Racism, Chrystos, Colonialism, Forgive and Educate Kyla Pawis, http://blackcoffeepoet.com/, Jorge Antonio Vallejos, Kyla Pawis, Kyla Pawis aka Racist Brampton Girl Hates Brown People, Lee Maracle, misogyny, Racism in Brampton, Reena Virk, sexism, White Supremacy
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REMEMBERING REENA VIRK: PROSE AND REFLECTIONS BY GITANJALI LENA
This week we’ve been remembering Reena Virk on blackcoffeepoet.com. Monday saw the 14 year anniversary of her murder. Reena was 14 and killed 14 years ago on November 14, 1997: 14, 14, 14. We had a very educational video roundtable and … Continue reading
REMEMBERING REENA VIRK: INTERVIEW WITH DR. MYTHILI RAJIVA, CO-EDITOR OF “REENA VIRK: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON A CANADIAN MURDER”
Mythili Rajiva is associate professor of Sociology at Saint Mary’s University (Halifax, Nova Scotia). Her research focuses on girlhood, the Canadian South Asian diaspora, and racialized identities. Her work has appeared in such journals as The Canadian Review of Sociology, … Continue reading
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Tagged "Reena Virk: Critical Perspectives on a Canadian Murder", "The Killing Season: Interrogating Adolescence in the Murder of Reena Virk", bell hooks, Black Coffee Poet, Chandra Mohanty, Girl Violence, http://blackcoffeepoet.com/, Interview with Mythili Rajiva, Judith Butler, Mean Girls, Michele Byers, Mythili Rajiva, Reena Virk, Remembering Reena Virk, Remembering Reena Virk Week, Sheila Batacharya, South Asian girls, Tara Atluri
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REMEMBERING REENA VIRK: VIDEO ROUNTABLE + REVIEW OF “REENA VIRK: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON A CANADIAN MURDER”
Reena Virk: Critical Perspectives on a Canadian Murder Edited by Mythili Rajiva and Sheila Batacharya Reviewed by Jorge Antonio Vallejos One Brown girl. Two killers with white privilege. Seven attackers. Twenty onlookers. This is the Reena Virk case. November 14, … Continue reading
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Tagged "Hootchies and ladies: Race, "Putting on Reena Virk: Celebrity, "Reckless eyeballing: Being Reena in Canada" by Tess Chakkalakal, "Reena Virk: Critical Perspectives on a Canadian Murder", "The Killing Season? Interrogating Adolescence In The Murder of Reena Virk" by Mythili Rajiva, "Under Whose Bridge? Race, and “girl violence” in a colonial white settler society" by Sheila Batacharya, and gender in Rebecca Godfrey’s book Under The Bridge" by Tara Atluri, and identity" by Michele Byers, authorship, Black Coffee Poet, class, gender, http://blackcoffeepoet.com/, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoOrIiupjGM, Jorge Antonio Vallejos, Michelle Byers, Mythili Rajiva, Rebecca Godfrey, Reena Virk, Remembering Reena Virk on blackcoffeepoet.com, Remembering Reena Virk Video Roundtbale, Remembering Reena Virl, sexuality, Sheila Batacharya, Tara Atluri, Tess Chakkalakal
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REMEMBERING THE WOMEN FORGOTTEN ON DECEMBER 6TH: POETRY BY SHAUNGA TAGORE, MEL GAYLE, AND BLACK COFFEE POET
Shaunga Tagore hates writing bios (but secretly likes it) and not so secretly works as a writer, editor, performer and arts-educator in Toronto. Please see the song “bitch” by meredith brooks for a more detailed and accurate personality profile. And … Continue reading
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Tagged Black Coffee Poet, white privilege, http://blackcoffeepoet.com/, Jane Creba, Violence Against Women, Trans Day of Remembrance, Shaunga Tagore, "Remembering the Women Forgotten on December 6th", Mel Gayle, Black Coffee Poet reads "Shane It Isn't Fair", Shane Fair, "Shane It Isn't Fair", Suritah Wignall, Visible/Invisible by Suritah Wignall, 500 Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women in Canada, Neil Stonechild, Reena Virk, Daleen Kay Bossee, Helen Betty Osbourne, Stephine Beck, Police Brutality, Murders at Cherry Beach, Violence Against Sex Workers, White Power
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