Jeevan Sangha

2 weeks ago | redpepper.org.uk | Jeevan Sangha

Journalism has a diversity problem. That’s not a new revelation. According to a 2023 survey by the Canadian Association of Journalists, 76 per cent of the country’s newsrooms have no visible minority or Indigenous person in a senior leadership role. Men take up more than half of these roles, while racialised journalists are far more likely to hold part-time and intern positions than full-time and supervisory roles.

Sep 5, 2024 | thetyee.ca | Jeevan Sangha

[Editor’s note: This piece contains discussions of intimate partner violence and abuse.] In one of the opening scenes of Colleen Hoover’s bestselling 2016 book It Ends with Us, the dangerously charming neurosurgeon Ryle Kincaid offers florist Lily Blossom Bloom a nugget of presumed wisdom. “There is no such thing as bad people,” he says.

Aug 29, 2024 | thetyee.ca | Jeevan Sangha

When jaye simpson walks through the streets of Vancouver, she sees glimpses of her mother in the playground at Grandview Park, in the falling leaves on Commercial Drive and when bumming a smoke on Hastings Street. “I see her everywhere,” simpson says. Her mother resided in the Downtown Eastside for many years and died 17 years ago, when simpson was 13 years old. Simpson is an Oji-Cree-Saulteaux poet, writer and activist.

Aug 15, 2024 | thetyee.ca | Jeevan Sangha

It can be hard to keep up with what’s going on in the zeitgeist these days. Style watchers remember a not-so-distant past when it was easier to understand what was hot in contemporary fashion and pop culture, and this has now changed considerably with social media, which has accelerated and bifurcated the ways in which trends (and, confusingly, micro-trends) burn up and fade away.

Jul 15, 2024 | thetyee.ca | Jeevan Sangha

When Frances Shaver found out she was appointed to the Order of Canada in recognition of her research on the sex industry, she felt surprised and honoured. Shaver is a professor emeritus in Concordia University’s department of sociology and anthropology, where she taught sociology and was a leading national voice in advocacy for the rights of sex workers.