Good intentions not enough to crack colonial walls keeping marginalized women out of politics

It is impossible to build trust in institutions that continue to facilitate harm against marginalized women and our communities, no matter how many viral hashtags they give us.

Meghan Markle’s words brought me to tears as they reminded me of the amount of hope and trust that I, and so many other Black, Indigenous, and racialized women, put into civic institutions such as the Parliament of Canada when we choose to engage with our democracy, writes Arezoo Najibzadeh.Screenshot courtesy of Global TV

Opinion

BY AREZOO NAJIBZADEH

March 10, 2021

Entering Canadian politics as a 15-year-old immigrant, I had no idea how my trust in our civic institutions would erode as a result of systemic racism and misogyny. When I was 16, I was sexually assaulted at my first Young Liberal policy conference in Windsor, Ont., where I knew only a handful of o...

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