Stories by Arezoo Najibzadeh
Good intentions not enough to crack colonial walls keeping marginalized women out of politics
It is impossible to build trust in institutions that continue to facilitate harm against marginalized women and our communities, no matter how many viral hashtags they give us.
Too often women are promoted to positions of power when things are going poorly, and the odds are stacked against them.
Canada’s treatment of Black, Indigenous, and racialized women in politics has evolved a step farther than representation politics and turned into full-on tokenism.
For a government that champions gender equality, it sure doesn’t take the concerns of one gender as seriously as another.
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