Reading the Migration Library (RML) publications were exchanged –and even created—at an end-of-semester zine party put on by the Social Justice Community of Practice (CoP) at Emily Carr University. It was a fun making-time that resulted in the publication of one of the CoP’s reports into a colourful artist book/zine (download):
- Dr. Banafsheh Mohammadi with Dr. Amel Aldehaib and Ece Arslan (2025), The Social Justice Community of Practice Report, Spring 2025, Emily Carr University, with Hyein Lee (book structure) and Lois Klassen (zine maker), Vancouver: Light Factory Publications.
The report includes two cogent summarizes of current geopolitical conflict zones (Sudan and Palestine) from presentations by experts with current lived-experience. In the first Dr. Amel Aldehaib (with Dr. Magnolia Pauker) offered a summary of the current conflict in Sudan from a feminist perspective. Aldehaib described the work of Goodness Radiance, a women-led service that they co-founded and whose ground-level humanitarian work is now stymied by violence targeted at human rights defenders. There is now increased need for international intervention toward a durable resolution to the conflict, the report explains. In the second presentation Dr. Ghada Ageel, whose family home in Gaza was recently destroyed by bombing, offered a synopsis of the international laws, declarations, and assumptions that have led to the current attacks on and displacement of Palestinians. Another third event described in the report was a presentation on a multilingual student empowerment project that took place before the pandemic. Tara Wren and Debora O presented its work to “[challenge] the systemic forces that perpetuate social inequality within our community.”
Dr. Mohammadi concludes the report with and appeal for less encumbered institutional events that offer a free exchange of information about oppression and justice work. They write that the success of this community of practice,
speaks to the need for more anti-racist events in a world seized with racism, Islamophobia, right-wing fascist politics, and suppression of liberatory student movements.”
Dr. Mohammadi was present at the zine-making celebration and exchanged the book they made, EAT THIS, for a copy of Directions to BUSH Gallery (Tania Willard and Leah Decter). Mohammadi is currently writing and researching the productive use of RAGE. EAT THIS takes up this theme. From it,
There’s a genocide in Palestine and a war and flood in Sudan and more genocide in Myanmar and women confined to their small places. All not because of Trump or some other dude you want to blame. YOU, dear white complacent person are to BLAME. So prepare for the BLOW. And the fall that follows the BLOW. The postcolonial anticolonial feminist RAGE is coming for you. And, it WORKS.”
