UWRaise

Racial Advocacy for Inclusion, Solidarity & Equity (RAISE) is an undergraduate student and voluntary run service at @uwaterloo. Reach us: [email protected].

[UWRaise @UWRaise]

We are honoured and humbled to receieve this award. Thank you, @LauraMaeLindo, and thank you to the KW community. In solidarity. ✊🏼✊🏾✊🏿

[Lori Campbell🔶️ @campbelllor]

@LauraMaeLindo launches the
Inaugural Black Excellence in Leadership Academy (Bela) for advancing racial equity in the Waterloo Region.

2021 recipients: @UWRaise @ABS_Laurier #BlackBrilliance & Deepa Ahluwalia

✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽

[University of Waterloo @UWaterloo]

PSA: The Asian community in Canada, including our own #UWaterlooCommunity, is being targeted with scam calls in an attempt to extort victims for money. If you have received one of these calls or were a victim of this scam, report it. Learn more: https://t.co/zEBTs0JSTw

[UWRaise @UWRaise]

It’s official! This year’s theme for XChanges is Cultivating Community! 🤎🖤 It will be taking place this Saturday, March 26 2022 https://t.co/SRRU8lFcPM

[UWRaise @UWRaise]

XChanges tickets are now live! Available for students, staff, faculty and the community. Register now!♥️

https://t.co/SRRU8lFKFk

[UWRaise @UWRaise]

We are excited to announce the return of our annual XChanges Conference!😌

This year’s theme for XChanges is Cultivating Community! 🫂

[UWRaise @UWRaise]

Our amazing line up of speakers for our XChanges 2022 Conference: Cultivating Community! 🫂♥️

RAISE strives to highlight how these elements are crucial in cultivating community and fostering love, kindness, and unity. 

Join us as we learn about the importance of community!

[ACB Network of Waterloo Region @OfAcb]

#BlackFuturesMonth Panel - Black and Indigenous Resistance 23 February 2022 #Solidarity

[ACB Network of Waterloo Region @OfAcb]

We must not tolerate intolerance. Beyond statements, we need solidarity actions opposing hate & naming the ableism, eugenics, transphobia, settler colonialism, homophobia, racism, creeping fascism & anti-Black racism centred in current far-right actions that avoid police sanction

[UWRaise @UWRaise]

@BFC_UW @DrCSTaylor @UWaterloo Congratulations @DrCSTaylor

[Christopher S Taylor @DrCSTaylor]

Former #BlackHistory130 students: I know y'all/wunna have completed some fantastic papers for me over the past little bit. Go and get yourself some cash in hand from @WaterlooHS

https://t.co/db2N0wciCi

[UWASA @_UWASA]

Have you heard?? 😨

UWBASE X UWASA Collab on Thursday, 7th of October. Our first in person event will be a Bonfire and Games night! Are you ready to meet new people and play amazing games? Don’t forget to tell a friend to tell a friend! 😉 Be there on Thursday! 🤩

[ReallocateWR @ReallocateW]

On this day, September 30th of Truth and Reconciliation, join us in challenging @RegionWaterloo to transform the Charles St Terminal into an Indigenous Community Hub. #reallocatewr #EveryChildMatters #TruthAndReconciliation

https://t.co/NQ6atB9O6o

[Christopher S Taylor @DrCSTaylor]

The Sankofa Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies is now live with our first issue, "B[l]ack to the Future"

https://t.co/TKL1VzlGmp

I've got so many people to thank for the support in getting this off the ground, mostly the students. It was an idea, and now here we are.

[Christopher S Taylor @DrCSTaylor]

Please read. Especially first year and other #BlackHistory130 students.

@uwaterlooHREI

[Trad Magazine @trad_magazine]

AYE SO BOOM! Happy Emancipation Day!

We wanted to take a moment to celebrate this monumental moment, and shed light on what brought us here! Join @susanne_nn as she breaks down some facts on how enslavement affected Black and Indigenous communities here on Turtle Island.

[Christopher S Taylor @DrCSTaylor]

***JOB ALERT***
"Black Excellence: Multiple Faculty Appointments Open to All Disciplines (Tenure-Track/Tenured)"
@BFC_UW @CCAWR @rlitchmore14 @RyersonDI @NHenryFundi @Nassisse1 @BlackatWestern @BlkCdnSA @trevorcharles @blcuoft @UWI_StAugustine @44paisley
https://t.co/tJA1Tjl67G

[Terrill Tailfeathers @Terrilltf]

Indian Residential School Survivors and Family Hotline:
1-866-925-4419

Crisis Services Canada: 1-833-456-4566 or text 45645;

Kids Help Phone: [phone].

First Nations and Inuit Hope for Wellness Help Line: 1-855-242-3310.

Native Youth Crisis Hotline: [phone].

[Justice For Soli @Justice4Soli]

Chief forensic pathologist, Michael Pollanen, is stepping in to review Soli’s case. The Faqiri family is cautiously hopeful that this development will provide a post-mortem report that reflects the reality of Soli’s final moments in 2016.
https://t.co/rMqcrHEHlP
#JusticeforSoli

[UWRaise @UWRaise]

Again, please feel free to reach out to us for support: [email protected].

Additional Resources for support:
Naseeha Mental Health Helpline: 1-866-627-3342
Amala the Muslim Youth Helpline: 855-95-AMALA
Nisa Helpline: 1-888-315-6472

Always in love and care,
RAISE

[UWRaise @UWRaise]

We Remember

Salman Afzaal, 46
Madiha Salman, 44
Yumna Afzaal, 15
The Grandmother of the Afzaal Family, 74

We offer our care and support to Fayez Afzaal, 9

[UWRaise @UWRaise]

We hope that you are granted the strength and resilience to endure this loss.