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The Assessment That Couldn’t See
On race, ableism, and what a union praised without reading On September 24, 2026, the UPEI Faculty Association appeared before the Standing Committee on Education and Economic Growth of the PEI Legislature to discuss the Rubin Thomlinson report on harassment and discrimination at UPEI. The union’s executive director, Margot Rejskind, told the committee that “really… Read more
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I can’t with This noise: Islamophobia and Anti-Palestinian Racism in Unions
Last week, Charlottetown MP Sean Casey voted in favour of an NDP motion to stop arms sales to Israel. In response, the Liberal Party demoted him. He lost his role as parliamentary secretary to the minister of veterans affairs. But he kept his seat in Parliament. He kept his $217,700 salary. He lost a $20,900… Read more
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The Rot in Academia: On Jason Arday and the Crises We Refuse to Name
Reflections from a Canadian Context I have been sitting with the news of Jason Arday’s death, and I cannot shake the feeling that we are all complicit. Not in the sense of direct responsibility, but in the way we have normalized a system that consumes its own, especially when those consumed are Black, Brown, Indigenous,… Read more
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The Room Where It Happens: When Insecurity Masquerades as Justice
A reflection on generational tension, performative knowledge, and the courage it takes to admit you don’t know. I’ve been sitting with something for a long time. And I’ve finally found the words to write it down. I’m also sharing an Instagram post by Bebe Montoya alongside this blog which, along with a recent episode of… Read more
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The Postal Code of Violence: How Safety is Defined by Whiteness
We often talk about safety as a universal human right, a baseline expectation for a dignified life. But if we’re honest with ourselves, we have to acknowledge that safety is not a universal experience. It is a privilege, meticulously guarded and unevenly distributed along the lines of race, geography, and power. I was recently watching… Read more
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What I learned from the last 5000 Years
I just finished reading India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent by Audrey Truschke. The blurb on the page describes it as follows: Much of world history is Indian history. Home today to one in four people, the subcontinent has long been densely populated and deeply connected to Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas… Read more
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On Fear of Muslim Leadership and Power
By now, many of you will have heard that the next mayor of New York City is Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old Muslim man of South Asian heritage and Ugandan background. He is the youngest mayor the city has elected in a century and its first Millennial in the role. Politically, Mamdani is a Democratic Socialist… Read more
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Finding the Missing Puzzle Pieces
For those not familiar with me, by undergraduate and graduate education has all been in the field of psychology. While my undergraduate degree was in Psychology (general), my Masters and PhD were both in Applied Social Psychology, not in Clinical Psychology as everyone assumes. As an academic field, psychology is not, in general, critical. In… Read more
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Two Years of Losing my Mind
It has been two years. Two years. Two years of one of the most heinous events of our lifetimes unfolding in front of our eyes, live streamed on our phones. Two years of the holocaust of Palestinians people in Gaza (and the West Bank). Two years of the most horrific images of death, destruction, and… Read more
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Silenced for Being Muslim?
Institutional anti-Muslim Racism in Action From May 2024 until July 2025, I worked at the University of Prince Edward Island as the inaugural Director of the (new) Department of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion (EDI) and Human Rights. As a Muslim and racialized leader working in equity, diversity, and inclusion, I believed that meaningful change required speaking… Read more
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