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Title: Interview with Paul Harpley
Description: Paul Harpley, environmental scientist and wildlife painter, describes growing up in Scarborough in the 1960s and his time at Scarborough College first in the 1970s. He shares memories of public transport, his grandparents' cabin at the mouth of Rouge River and Scarborough's urban development. Harpley reflects upon UTSC's impact on his personal life, his environmental activism and his career in natural heritage.
Publisher: Stories of UTSC

Title: Interview with Saarah
Description: Sarah discuss her personal experiences as a Muslim woman, her activism, her study of Canadian indigenous history, and her practicum experience in Toronto women's and refugee shelters.
Publisher: Stories from Scarborough

Title: Interview with Alexandra Flynn
Description: Professor Alexandra Flynn speaks on her personal experience growing up in Indigenous communities and learning to become an Indigenous ally. She also notes the importance of actively integrating Indigenous knowledge into education while also touching upon the ways in which she tries to promote Indigenous knowledge in her City Studies courses.
Publisher: Stories from Scarborough

Title: Interview with Deb Parent
Description: Deb Parent reflects upon her experience in feminist activism. Deb discusses her journey in identifying herself as a lesbian and coming out in the late 1960s. Deb also mentions how she crossed paths with, and became involved in, organizations such as Gays of Ottawa and the Rape Crisis Centre and the profound impact these organizations have had on her life and her view of the importance of incorporating one's own perspective when helping others address oppression. In particular, Deb reflects on her takeaways of self-empowerment, intersectionality, and community from her involvement in initiatives such as the Take Back the Night March and her role as an instructor of Wen-Do self-defence classes.
Publisher: Stories from Scarborough

Title: Interview with Martha Friendly
Description: Martha Friendly discusses her career and involvement in childcare and research advocacy. She speaks on her role in the development of child care research, activism, and policy in Canada and Internationally. She expands on the history and evolution of child care theory, research, funding and resources, activism, politics and policy in the context of Canada, as well as comparatively in the United States, and internationally. She explains how child care research is impacted by governments, politics, and policies. Martha also mentions how child care research shows child care impacts society in many different ways. She elaborates on its role in the economy. Martha also discusses how social attitudes and perceptions on child care have shifted over time, including her own understandings and beliefs. She speaks on social reform regarding child care and its origins dating back to World War II and the women's movement.
Publisher: Stories from Scarborough

Title: Interview with Carolyn Ferns
Description: Carolyn Ferns talks about her position as the policy and government relations coordinator at the Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care. She expands on the liberatory view of education involved in the realm of early childhood education and how it can be improved through politics and public policy. Carolyn discusses collaboration with other childcare organizations when working on initiatives surrounding the provincial budget and Childcare Worker and Early Childhood Educator Appreciation Day. In doing do, Carolyn also touches upon the ways in which these childcare organizations interact with and are impacted by the federal and provincial government.
Publisher: Stories from Scarborough

Title: Interview with Kathy Grant
Description: Public historian and founder of the Legacy Voices Institute, Kathy Grant briefly discusses her academic history, military career and her inspiration to become a Historian: her father, Owen Rowe. Kathy describes her father's life, education, military career, and activism. She speaks about her father's involvement in the West Indian Domestic Scheme (1955–1967) and his collection of historical materials that document the black community. Kathy also describes the Domestic Scheme in detail and comments on the work of other activists, including Donald Moore.
Publisher: Stories from Scarborough

Title: Interview with Nesha Haniff
Description: Nesha Haniff speaks about her book "Blaze a Fire" and how it weaves together class, gender, race, and multiple other aspects to portray the stories of 28 Caribbean women. Nesha briefly touches upon the process of creating "Blaze of Fire", primarily in regards to her connection with her publisher, Sister Vision Press. She talks about her ambition for "Blaze of Fire" to serve as a high school teaching tool that allowed students to reconsider their view of women. Nesha remarks that "Blaze of Fire", which was published in the late 1980s, was ahead of its time in terms of the integration of gender studies into the classroom.
Publisher: Stories from Scarborough

Title: Interview with Fatah Awil
Description: Fatah Awil speaks about the non-profit organization Urban Alliance On Race Relations in regards to their work on race relations and creation of training sessions across Ontario. Fatah describes his position as a program coordinator of the Diversity Youth Fellowship, which encourages and supports youth from Muslim, Black, Tamil and Filipino groups to become politically involved by providing them with internship opportunities in City Hall. As a previous fellow of this program, Fatah discusses the impact of the Diversity Fellowship both on the fellows that are involved in this program and for their communities as these fellows bridge the gap between their communities and city counsellors and the Mayor. He talks about the support that the Alliance has been providing and the advocation work it has done during COVID-19 for minorities working in high-risk jobs such as nurses, as well as how it has impacted their social activism.
Publisher: Stories from Scarborough

Title: Interview with Craig Heron
Description: Craig Heron, as a former professor of working-class history at York University, highlights the link between activism and history. Craig discusses how the New Left has contributed to his political involvement in protests for the democratization of the university as a UofT student and later involvements in strikes as a faculty member at York University. Lastly, Craig touches upon his initiatives as the President of Toronto Worker’ History Project, especially in regards to the production of community plays that he wrote surrounding different historical themes such as the Russian Revolution and the Winnipeg General Strike.
Publisher: Stories from Scarborough

Title: Interview with Karen Aboud
Description: Karen Aboud talks about her experience as an active UTSC student, both academically and in her extracurricular activities. She discusses topics ranging from her professors and classes to her involvement in student council and rallies. As a student from the first graduating class of Scarborough College in the 1960s, Aboud relays the impression she got of the layout of Scarborough in the early years of the College.
Publisher: Stories of UTSC

Title: Interview with Leon Tsai
Publisher: Stories from Scarborough

Title: Interview with Judith Wahl
Publisher: Stories from Scarborough

Title: Interview with confidential participant 002
Description: A McMaster student of psychology and social work discusses the importance of mental health awareness and the difference between mental health and mental illness. The participant discusses different tools for building mental health awareness, including online resources, workshops, lived experience and conversations with peers. They also speak about cultural stigma and taboo surrounding mental illness and how mental health education continues to be taught from a colonial perspective.
Publisher: Stories from Scarborough

Title: Interview with Raagini Appadurai
Description: Raagini Appadurai shares her experience with racism, coming as an immigrant from India at a young age, and her growing love for activism and ant-racism movements. As an educator, she speaks about confronting powers, gaining knowledge, and pursuing social equity, and how she solidly stepped into the field of activism in her high school years, providing a stable platform for herself and her peers to speak about matters pertaining to social justice.
Publisher: Stories from Scarborough

Title: Interview with Brandy Jensen
Publisher: Stories from Scarborough

Title: Interview with Louange
Publisher: Stories from Scarborough

Title: Interview with Margaret McPhail
Description: Margaret McPhail talks about her experience as an activist, through her role as a secondary school teacher and staff member at the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation (OSSTF/FEESO). She also describes her role on the International Women's Day Committee and with Organized Working Women.
Publisher: Stories from Scarborough

Title: Interview with David Pereira
Publisher: Stories from Scarborough

Title: Interview with Lauri Sue Robertson
Publisher: Stories from Scarborough

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