In this episode of Don't Call Me Resilient, Vinita explores the complicated, colonial roots of gardening - which affect who gets to garden and what we plant - with researcher Jacqueline L. Scott and community activist Carolynne Crawley.

Is a cell phone ban, along with increased surveillance, the right way to deal with the impact of addictive and harmful technology in classrooms?

Indigenous media in North America have rapidly expanded over the last 30 years with Indigenous media makers gaining greater control of their own narratives, including the ability to subvert colonial representations.

Experts say mainstream media coverage of the war in Gaza is severely skewed -- with Palestinian voices getting stifled. They argue it privileges the perspectives of some journalists and not those of others.

Refugee programs in Canada have always been politicized, but more so in recent years, evidenced by discrepancies between programs for refugees from Gaza and Sudan and those from Ukraine.

Today's episode is about Beyoncé's new album, Cowboy Carter. Beyoncé’s country-inspired album has caused a stir because the country music scene has long been white dominated, with a history of segregation that has erased its Black roots and gatekept it from Black artists.

Vinita speaks to two famine scholars about the use of starvation as a tool in the colonizer's playbook through two historic examples - the decimation of Indigenous populations in the Plains, North America and the 1943 famine in Bengal, India.

Vinita speaks with Hilal Elver, the former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food and current research professor of Global Studies at the University of California Santa Barbara, about the looming famine in Gaza after months of Israeli attacks.

It’s been nine years since #OscarsSoWhite called out a lack of diversity at the Oscars. Has anything changed? Prof. Naila Keleta-Mae and actress Mariah Inger unpack the progress in the entertainment industry.

Today, we launch our trailer for a new season of Don't Call Me Resilient, our podcast that takes on the ways racism impacts our biggest news stories and also permeates our everyday lives. The DCMR team has been busy prepping new episodes and next week, we start releasing episodes for season 7, taking our anti-racist lens to the news unfolding around us and the issues occupying a lot of our minds these days. From big cultural moments, like the Oscars to the scary spread of AI and the ongoing...

In this episode, Prof. Vershawn Ashanti Young of the University of Waterloo and Prof. Anthony Stewart of Bucknell University join forces to break down the many layers - and Black stereotypes - in the new satirical movie "American Fiction," based on the novel "Erasure" by Percival Everett.

We’re bringing you an extra episode this week to share an interview from The Conversation Weekly, our sister podcast from The Conversation. As Kenya marks 60 years of independence, The Conversation Weekly explores how much one song can tell you about the politics of a new nation. Hosted by Gemma Ware at The Conversation UK, The Conversation Weekly is a show for curious minds.

With food insecurity at an all-time high and food banks buckling under high demand as we head into this holiday season, Prof. Elaine Power of Queen's University says we need to instead focus on long-term solutions that tackle the issue at its root.

Vinita explores why racist, homophobic and sexist attitudes are increasingly showing up in school-age boys - and what we can do about it.

Clinical psychologist and professor Monnica Williams is on a mission to bring psychedelics to therapists' offices to help people heal from their racial traumas. To do this, she's jumping over some big hurdles.

Modern settlers to Palestine viewed the desert as something they needed to “make bloom.” But the land was already blooming, thanks to Palestinian agricultural systems that have long been overlooked by colonial powers.

Legal experts express their worry that the "doubling down" on Stop Cop City demonstrators who are opposed to a giant police training facility could undermine the right to protest. Kamau Franklin, one of the leaders of the Stop Cop City movement and a lawyer himself, and Zohra Ahmed, a professor of law at the University of Georgia, talk about the situation, and why so many people are watching it.

Lori Campbell, a '60s Scoop survivor and a VP at the University of Regina, challenges the CBC’s motives in their exposé on the questionable Indigenous roots of Buffy Sainte-Marie, legendary singer-songwriter. She asks: was the story in service of truth and reconciliation or a sensationalist headline? Campbell also highlights the turmoil the story is causing, especially in Saskatchewan-based Indigenous communities.

With the intensification of war in the Middle East, comes an intense polarization within our institutions. A historian whose family was taken hostage by Hamas, and a geographer with family in the West Bank, get together to discuss a way forward.

One factor driving the housing crisis, across the country, is a shift away from publicly built housing toward large corporate-owned buildings where, as today’s guest Prof. Nemoy Lewis puts it, "housing is treated as a commodity, not a human right.”

In this reflective and personal episode, Professor Cheryl Thompson of Toronto Metropolitan University and author of “Beauty in a Box” untangles the complicated history of hair relaxers for Black women - and the health risks now linked to them.

Prof. Daniel Martinez HoSang of Yale University explains the rising popularity of the far right with people of colour -- what he calls multicultural white supremacy.

In honour of Truth and Reconciliation Day, we spoke with Terri Cardinal, who headed up one of the community searches for the graves of children who went missing while attending an Indian Residential School.

Get ready for a new season of Don't Call Me Resilient Sept. 28! Every week, host Vinita Srivastava dives into conversations with experts and real people to bring you the news, from an anti-racist perspective.