For University of Toronto students Gigi Hoi and Alfonso Ralph Mendoza Manalo, one of the first steps in dealing with anti-Asian racism is having difficult, honest conversations. “Having a space where people can feel safe and share … whatever it is that they're going through,” is crucial says...

Anti-Asian racism and violence in North America have been called a “shadow pandemic” – one that has intensified over the past year and builds on a long history of discrimination. How, then, can we stop it? “One of the things that I've been trying to promote in the aftermath of the shootings in...

For some, it was the last time they remember hugging a friend or a colleague, the last time they were with a class, in a crowd or with a group, the last time they took public transit without thinking about risk. In episode 18 of The New Normal podcast, University of Toronto students, alumni and...