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March 1, 2020

Decolonizing mental health: The importance of an oppression-focused mental health system by Karina Zapata

Reporting on the People, Issues, and Events that Shape our City - Calgary Journal Community Newspaper

“I think that what has happened in the last 20 or 30 years is that many people of colour have started to just try to survive, understandably,” says Mullan. “The system is really good at having us just focus on surviving so much that we don’t have the time to collectively come together and heal in community, which I think is pretty crucial,” says Mullan.

Mullan says that some people need individual therapy and medication in order to thrive. However, she would like to see more collective, holistic healing approaches to mental health as options — the way they were done, and successfully worked, before colonization.

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February 23, 2020

Why the ‘business case’ for diversity isn’t working by Sarah Kaplan

What ever happened to promoting workplace inclusion and fairness because it’s the right thing to do?

we are highly unlikely to see these promised trillions. And, such failures may lead to disillusionment with diversity efforts.

when there are downturns in organizational performance, believers in the business case are more likely to see diversity efforts as ineffective and to support dropping the organization’s investment in diversity programs.

The latest experiments have found that exposure to an organization’s business case for diversity decreased a sense of belonging to that organization for women and for members of the LGBTQ community, which was then associated with lower desire to join and lower performance on the job.