Shree Paradkar Race

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Recent work

• Shree Paradkar: Scholar Strike 2022: Why professors and students will hit the streets in a show of resistanceOpinion · Toronto Star · Mar 20, 2022
• Shree Paradkar: Why I’m saying bye-bye to ‘BIPOC’ this yearOpinion · Toronto Star · Dec 11, 2021
• Shree Paradkar: Canadian media failing Diversity 101 and you are paying the priceOpinion · Toronto Star · Nov 26, 2021
• Shree Paradkar: Attacks on journalists show news media decisions on covering the far-right are also workplace safety decisionsOpinion · Toronto Star · Oct 4, 2021
• Shree Paradkar: University of Toronto hiring scandal is tainting the Tax Court – and it seems nobody is to blameOpinion · Toronto Star · Sep 23, 2021
• Shree Paradkar: Racist? Moi? Federal leaders miss mark with superficial approach to systemic racism in English debateOpinion · Toronto Star · Sep 10, 2021
• Shree Paradkar: Mini-skirt memes, burqas and warlords: What gets missed in Afghanistan’s graveyard of clichésOpinion · Toronto Star · Aug 20, 2021
• Shree Paradkar: Canada’s ban on direct flights from India is a sucker punch in the gut to thousands of CanadiansOpinion · Toronto Star · Aug 15, 2021
• Shree Paradkar: Sneering at Ontario’s anti-racist math curriculum reveals a straight line to what people valueOpinion · Toronto Star · Jul 24, 2021
• Shree Paradkar: Soccer penalty kicks are unfair — a Black man is not allowed to missOpinion · Toronto Star · Jul 12, 2021
• Shree Paradkar: Kola Iluyomade, a fierce advocate for Black children, left an indelible mark on Ontario’s education systemOpinion · Toronto Star · Jul 8, 2021
• Shree Paradkar: For an immigrant like me, the meaning of Canada Day keeps evolving. This year, what is there to celebrate?Opinion · Toronto Star · Jun 30, 2021
• Opinion | ‘All of us are very afraid’: TDSB staffers describe culture of fear after board suspends a student equity adviser who shared resources on Palestinian human rightsOpinion · Toronto Star · Jun 22, 2021
• Shree Paradkar: Anti-Muslim hate exists not because of bad people, but because good people view Muslims as undesirableOpinion · Toronto Star · Jun 10, 2021
• Opinion | Toppling of Egerton Ryerson statue doesn’t end colonial atrocities, but signals an end to celebrating themOpinion · Toronto Star · Jun 7, 2021
• Shree Paradkar: Kamloops residential school discovery challenges the myth of The Good Canadian — againOpinion · Toronto Star · Jun 2, 2021
• Shree Paradkar: The surprising bonds that link Palestinian, Black and Indigenous liberation movementsOpinion · Toronto Star · May 30, 2021
• Shree Paradkar: Canada’s refusal to waive intellectual property rights on COVID-19 vaccines should be a crime against humanityOpinion · Toronto Star · May 15, 2021
• Shree Paradkar: Michaëlle Jean faces mounting pressure to boycott U of T after law school’s hiring fiascoOpinion · Toronto Star · May 5, 2021
• Shree Paradkar: Golfers taking a swing at the province’s decision to shut them down are exposing the cluelessness of their cocooned worldOpinion · Toronto Star · Apr 28, 2021
• Shree Paradkar: As diasporic Indians reel from double pandemic, individuals rush to helpOpinion · Toronto Star · Apr 25, 2021
• Shree Paradkar: How George Floyd’s murder and Ontario’s botched plans to police the pandemic shine a light on police brutality as a public health issueOpinion · Toronto Star · Apr 24, 2021
• Shree Paradkar: He talks of ‘decolonizing Canada,’ so why is Justin Trudeau still supportive of the ultimate symbol of coloniality?Opinion · Toronto Star · Mar 9, 2021
• Shree Paradkar: Inaugural poet Amanda Gorman lifts our gaze to what can beOpinion · Toronto Star · Jan 21, 2021
• Shree Paradkar: Erin O’Toole’s dumping of Derek Sloan over $131 donation sidesteps an existential reckoning the Conservative party really needsOpinion · Toronto Star · Jan 19, 2021
• Shree Paradkar: Hey CBC, journalist Ahmar Khan’s actions didn’t harm your reputation. Your own actions didOpinion · Toronto Star · Jan 15, 2021
• Shree Paradkar: How white supremacy is delivering a one-two punch on both sides of the Canada-U.S. borderOpinion · Toronto Star · Jan 13, 2021
• Shree Paradkar: Knock down anti-Black racism in medicine, two powerhouse advocates tell health-care sector in new CMAJ articleOpinion · Toronto Star · Jan 11, 2021
• Shree Paradkar: Why calls to label white supremacists terrorists could backfire on their targets insteadOpinion · Toronto Star · Jan 8, 2021
• Shree Paradkar: Thousands of white people who rioted at the U.S. Capitol were reclaiming white supremacyOpinion · Toronto Star · Jan 6, 2021
• Shree Paradkar: 2020: A year that marked a new awakening — and reignited the last century’s battle for civil rightsOpinion · Toronto Star · Dec 29, 2020
• Shree Paradkar: Suck it up? Vicious online abuse of talk-show host Supriya Dwivedi a reminder of dangers for women in the public eyeOpinion · Toronto Star · Dec 1, 2020
• Shree Paradkar: No need to heave a sigh of relief at Trump’s loss when moral panic over race is on full display hereOpinion · Toronto Star · Nov 29, 2020
• Shree Paradkar: From witch to bitch: The cuss words have shifted over the centuries, but the ugliness towards women remains a constantOpinion · Toronto Star · Nov 23, 2020
• Shree Paradkar: Asking why racialized people vote for a racist like Donald Trump is a blinkered questionOpinion · Toronto Star · Nov 3, 2020
• Shree Paradkar: For racialized voters, the U.S. election is a choice between the terrible and the terrifyingOpinion · Toronto Star · Nov 2, 2020
• Shree Paradkar: Where’s a gotcha satirical film like Borat to go when the once hidden ugliness is now on the surface?Opinion · Toronto Star · Oct 28, 2020
• Shree Paradkar: Controversies at U of T Law, York University highlight escalating suppression of moderate voices criticizing IsraelOpinion · Toronto Star · Oct 24, 2020
• Shree Paradkar: University teachers’ association calls for rare censure of U of T administration over law faculty hiring scandalOpinion · Toronto Star · Oct 15, 2020
• U of T orders ‘impartial review’ of human rights program hiring fiascoOpinion · Toronto Star · Oct 13, 2020
• Shree Paradkar: A push to end white supremacists targeting Muslims will need more than polite lettersOpinion · Toronto Star · Oct 5, 2020
• Shree Paradkar: At U.S. presidential debate, Donald Trump stood at the combustible nexus of white privilege and white fragilityOpinion · Toronto Star · Oct 1, 2020
• Shree Paradkar: Black voices are still largely absent from mainstream media. It’s time for the industry to take a hard look at itselfOpinion · Toronto Star · Sep 28, 2020
• Shree Paradkar: Pressure mounts on U of T law faculty as Amnesty, National Council of Canadian Muslims seek investigations into alleged inappropriate influenceOpinion · Toronto Star · Sep 21, 2020
• Shree Paradkar: Scandal-hit U of T law school internal emails contradict dean’s new email to staff over key hiring decisionOpinion · Toronto Star · Sep 17, 2020
• Shree Paradkar: Back-to-school anxiety for the comfortable is just a taste of what sending children to school has been like for the marginalizedOpinion · Toronto Star · Sep 13, 2020
• Shree Paradkar: Arrests at Six Nations’ Land Back Lane protests against a Caledonia housing development show the ugly face of colonial violenceOpinion · Toronto Star · Sep 10, 2020
• Shree Paradkar: ‘They were out to fire me’: Ryerson staffer honoured for anti-racism work accuses university of anti-Black racismOpinion · Toronto Star · Aug 21, 2020
• Shree Paradkar: Why a ‘good enough’ Kamala Harris is simply not good enoughOpinion · Toronto Star · Aug 14, 2020
• Shree Paradkar: Are we OK living in a society where (yet another human rights report shows) police are key drivers of racism against Black people?Opinion · Toronto Star · Aug 10, 2020
• Shree Paradkar: By finally speaking out about white privilege Oprah Winfrey has riled the racistsOpinion · Toronto Star · Aug 5, 2020
• Shree Paradkar: Pandemic’s impact lays bare the world’s inequality and injusticeOpinion · Toronto Star · Aug 4, 2020
• Shree Paradkar: Voluntourism by charities like WE is based on faulty ideals of feel-good white saviourismOpinion · Toronto Star · Jul 30, 2020
• Shree Paradkar: ‘It took a pandemic for the country to see what was already broken.’ New report offers economic recovery plan with feminist spinOpinion · Toronto Star · Jul 27, 2020
• Shree Paradkar: Stephen Lecce says a new law allowing non-teachers to be directors of education will fight racism. Here’s why that’s nonsenseOpinion · Toronto Star · Jul 20, 2020
• Shree Paradkar: Who can use the N-word? Who stands for O Canada? A young teacher’s woes over equity workOpinion · Toronto Star · Jul 19, 2020
• Shree Paradkar: As Ontario school boards hunt for leaders, the TDSB gets bold on a key question: Who selects the director?Opinion · Toronto Star · Jul 17, 2020
• Shree Paradkar: ‘Why am I being treated this way?’ Between the pandemic and city bylaws, massage parlour workers are strugglingOpinion · Toronto Star · Jul 9, 2020
• Shree Paradkar: Ottawa trustee censured over treatment of Black teen. Her colleagues want her gone, but they’re powerless to fire herOpinion · Toronto Star · Jul 4, 2020
• Shree Paradkar: Dear brown people: I’m about to wash some dirty linen in public. Consider this an overdue act of tough loveOpinion · Toronto Star · Jun 27, 2020