Making your way up
Making your way up
The project Making Your Way Up , created by Sayaspora and funded by Canadian Heritage, addresses the barriers to employment and career mobility faced by marginalized and systematically underrepresented young women aged 18-30 in the African diaspora (including communities in the Maghreb, Sub-Saharan Africa, Southern and Eastern Africa and the Caribbean).
The project proposes a two-pronged response, offering tools to negotiate entry into key employment sectors while developing an awareness campaign to help employers and the public better understand the various issues arising from systematic racism and how it operates in the workplace.
Making your way up is...
Event activations
A series of creative publications capturing the essence of our uniqueness.
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Conversation
Debunking Stereotypes through Dialogue
https://youtu.be/owE_D3TW-Nw?si=wvrlbizFa5UxGiQd Stereotypes Are Prevalent “People are hard to hate up close.” Renowned shame researcher, Brené Brown, reminds us of that in her book Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for...
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Conversation
Gender in the African Diaspora: History tells a different story
https://youtu.be/hbmICg6wWK8 When it comes to the history of gender and sexuality in Africa, historians, anthropologists, even researchers have, up until recently, told an incomplete story. Africa, and Africans,...
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Introduction
Introduction to the conversation series
In open and honest conversations, our guests sit down to talk about systemic racism and its impact on the Canadian labour market.