Youtube Recording Link In Canada, “universal” health care excludes dental care. If folks have dental coverage under a benefit plan it is limited at best. This causes extreme health care issues for folks whose lives are shaped by poverty. Dr. Raf will teach us how to care for our teeth on a shoestring budget. He…
Get your voice heard! Seeking book contributors.
Exploring the violence of poverty: A Freirean, trauma informed coproduction on life in austerity (Working title. The actual title will emerge from the work.) These are the voices of people who are almost entirely absent in texts on social services, the criminal justice system, food bank usage, mental health, and many other issues. The book…
Graphic design for impact
You’ve done the research. You don’t want it to collect dust on the shelf. You want it to make a difference. But you’re used to the academic status quo knowledge mobilization. This is where graphic design makes a difference. I am a researcher and graphic designer. I use the power of design to make research…
String it Together learning series
The Shoestring Initiative hosts monthly free String it Together: Finding togetherness in community on the education digi-scape webinars focused on social class on how classism shapes experiences in and understandings of higher education in Canada and around the world. The Shoestring Initiative is a grassroots solidarity movement to create communities of mentorship, belonging, support and…
Who is Elaine?
To learn what Elaine brings to organizations and community contact her: elaberge@uvic.ca 250 686 2214 Twitter: ShoestringCdn Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/shoestringinitiative Learn about her initiative: http://www.shoestringinitiative.com
#113 Revolutionizing & Radicalzing Poverty Definitions – SSSP session finalized
Session sponsor: poverty, class, and inequalitySession organizers: Elaine Laberge, University of Victoria (Canada) | Annette M Mackay, West Virginia University (USA) Around the world, nations are ravaged by capitalism, neoliberalism, ever-evolving —isms. In colonized nations, stratification ladders are forged with the iron will of colonial and capitalist beliefs and practices. We are in a moment…
Identity Politics Needs Some Class I & II: Jun 2 @ CSA & Congress 2021
Canadian Sociological Association Annual Conference | May 31 – June 4, 2021 VIRTUAL 55th Annual Conference of the CSA https://congress2021.ca/ Title: Identity Politics Needs Some Class https://www.csa-scs.ca/conference/en/Session Code: APS5Organizers: Elaine J Laberge, University of Victoria (Education); Jes Annan, University of Victoria (Sociology); Chelsea Thomas, University of Victoria; Charity Slobod, University of Alberta (Faculty of Graduate…
Let’s do it. Let’s do it now. By Peter Shukie
Let’s do it. Let’s do it now by Peter Shukie Peter Shukie, Blackburn College, Lancashire, UK https://www.blackburn.ac.uk/lecturer-profile/SHUP10 4vlhy9 Blog 0 @shukieone @AcademicsClass Reposted with permission Introduction It has been quite difficult to write this seminar. The difficulty has not been in knowing what to say, but in recognising the responsibility that comes with saying it….
Returning to the Barnyard
ELAINE J. LABERGE Returning to the Barnyard VICTORIA, BC | FEBRUARY 2018 Published in https://humanitiesnetwork.wixsite.com/anthology/downloads How different my story could have been told if I had not entered the world into poverty; I was raised in a community that storied me by my family’s poverty; I was storied by my mother’s supposed failings and weaknesses…
Outliers imagining otherwise in and for universities
Elaine Laberge, PhD Candidate, University of Victoria Written for my PhD Candidacy February 17, 2020 Many emotions drove me to write Miseducation – sorrow, guilt, pride, anger, righteous indignation, regret, anxiety, and fear. But above all a sense of urgency and desperation that, as a woman approaching 70, time was running out. Reay, 2018, p….
COVID-19 and poverty-class higher education students
March 13, 2020 Re: COVID-19 and poverty-class students Dear Canadian University Leaders: I write to you with fingertips quivering over the keyboard. I do not want to further expose myself to ridicule and shame. Yet, I must publicly come out of the social underclass closet because this situation is far more important than my shamed…
Leadership search for meaning making
But it is important to remember that we created these negative and demoralized people. We created them by relying on organising processes that discount and deny our best human capacities…. We can realize that ‘you can’t hate someone whose story you know.’” (Wheatley, 2007, pp. 56-57) This land is your land; this land is not…
