Pam Strong

Learning and Unlearning. Focused on inclusion for all through the connected work of Equity, Relationships and Well Being.

[Pam Strong @Strongthinktank]

@BrardimusPrime well done!

[🐾 @natasha_faroogh]

I’m lucky I have some friends in high places who give a shit and will work hard to change things.

But generally the support for 2SLGBTQ+ people is abysmal. I’d like you to know that.

We are IN racialized communities. In your community that you fight to protect otherwise. 😔

[🐾 @natasha_faroogh]

I share resources on anti racism or racial diversity— it will get tons of traction. Tons of shares. 100s if not 1000s of people take a peek at it even if they’re not teaching the French.

I share 2SLGBTQ + things? In English? Maybe 50 people look at it.

It’s disheartening 😔

[Pam Strong @Strongthinktank]

@ChowdhurySayema And I am sorry that you have to point this out at all. To anyone.

[Pam Strong @Strongthinktank]

@ChowdhurySayema 💯! People show know this in their gut, the same way we know KKK does not equal Christianity.

[Pam Strong @Strongthinktank]

@MrBedford2 I wish I had read this a long time ago. I am with you my friend.

[Educator @DrAnnLopez]

Meet 7 groundbreaking Black scientists from the past. Educators ensure this is in the curriculum https://t.co/VfqsYNcsED

[Pam Strong @Strongthinktank]

@natasha_faroogh Once again, queer/gender diverse human beings are told that this aspect of their identity is not fit for conversation. Let that sink in. You can’t even talk about us.

[Pam Strong @Strongthinktank]

@natasha_faroogh Discomfort is not an infringement of human rights. This tweet shows how education often values discomfort over human rights, and how even well meaning educators actively create space for homo/trans/biphobia to perpetuate.

[David A. Robertson @DaveAlexRoberts]

This is still happening, and will continue to happen. Don’t let it fade out of the public consciousness. #everychildmatters #trc

[NWAC @NWAC_CA]

We are horrified by Brian Pallister & Alan Lagimodiere trying to defend Residential Schools. This system was made to violently assimilate Indigenous peoples. That a government could defend this practice, especially in light of the recoveries of unmarked graves, is appalling.

[Wab Kinew @WabKinew]

Opinion: Brian Pallister has shattered the relationship between Indigenous people and the Manitoba government - The Globe and Mail https://t.co/snBV4tTLHI

[Pam Strong @Strongthinktank]

@BrardimusPrime @MrBedford2 So true. ❤️ 🏳️‍🌈

[Pam Strong @Strongthinktank]

I appreciate this thread. Being an out educator for a decade+ has brought gifts & huge costs. Usually, I only share the gifts. One ugly truth of many-death threats required a safety plan at work & a quick response support plan with police. I will never be the same from the hate.

[🐾 @natasha_faroogh]

I wish you all knew how hard it is to be an out and proud educator.

Unlike the colour of your skin or even religious symbols — sexuality is something that can’t be seen or guessed.

So when some of us educators go out of our way to “out” ourselves in the classroom or online
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[Pam Strong @Strongthinktank]

@natasha_challo And thank you from the bottom of mine.

[@clclyne @clclyne]

Miigwetch @BearheadWally for this thread #215children Settler allies, please read whole thread. #Indigenous folks who work in #IndigenousEd are being crushed now for all the reasons listed here

[Wali Shah @LifeAsWali]

My heart hurts. I can't stop thinking about the 9 year old Muslim boy, whose family was killed in an Islamophobic attack yesterday in London, ON.

He will grow up without the warmth of his parents. He will grow up without his sister or grandmother.

That could have been me.

[Sayema @ChowdhurySayema]

Horrific incident of #Islamophobia 💔. Conversations on hate-based systems of oppression must be seen as linked. Silos and pitting of one form of racism against another only feeds the larger narrative of Supremacy. We must fight for emancipation collectively.

[Zohrin Mawji @ZohrinM]

The man who killed four innocent Muslims & orphaned one - was a Grade 8 student just 6-7 years ago. This is *why* we do the work we do in schools.

This is why conversations about race & oppression are needed. Embedded into curriculum, into instruction.

Educate.

#londonontario