))
Episode 1: Life in Saskatoon and Moving Stories
Manage episode 294101619 series 2935009
Contenido proporcionado por ConnectR Youth Champions: Dany Muembo & Sienna Waskewitch, ConnectR Youth Champions: Dany Muembo, and Sienna Waskewitch. Todo el contenido del podcast, incluidos episodios, gráficos y descripciones de podcast, lo carga y proporciona directamente ConnectR Youth Champions: Dany Muembo & Sienna Waskewitch, ConnectR Youth Champions: Dany Muembo, and Sienna Waskewitch o su socio de plataforma de podcast. Si cree que alguien está utilizando su trabajo protegido por derechos de autor sin su permiso, puede seguir el proceso descrito aquí https://es.player.fm/legal.
Today we kick things off on the ConnectR Podcast, introducing listeners to our two hosts, Dany and Sienna, and some background leading up to their lives in Saskatoon. It was the Moving Stories project that brought us together and we talk a little about the impact that this wonderful initiative has had on our lives, as well as that of the greater community. We talk about feelings of disconnection in our younger years, what it was like to arrive in Canada after moving around Africa, growing up as an outsider in your own town, and how unaddressed wounds take time to heal. For both of us, engagement with our past has opened worlds before our eyes, initiating acceptance, inner work, and progress on so many levels. Today's conversation also covers our earliest experiences of racism, feelings of pain, and how whiteness has been framed historically. To end things off, we look at some of the progress that has been made in Saskatoon and celebrate these steps that we want to build on! For us, this podcast is about growing the dialogue on important subjects, while allowing a multiplicity of experiences and positions to blossom, so make sure to subscribe and stay tuned for all we have in store for you in the exciting upcoming episodes!
Key Points From This Episode:
- How our hosts, Sienna and Dany, met on the Moving Stories project!
- Healing, connection and finding things around us that make us feel good.
- Arriving in Canada and adjusting to new cultural norms in Saskatoon.
- Growing up in Saskatoon and a disconnection from identity and heritage.
- The life-changing experience of a historical letter and how this led to standing up and being heard in public.
- Childhood memories of whiteness and the experience of this in Africa.
- Learning about slavery and the disturbing history of racism in the Americas.
- The motivation to learn and use the qualification to disprove the legacy of racism.
- Race relations in Saskatoon; positivity around diversity that is present in the city.
- Hopes for more conversations where differences of opinion are acceptable.
- The place of education in the process of opening and enlightening young minds
- Motivations for starting this podcast; jumpstarting important conversations!
Tweetables:
“Some of our struggles, as different as they can be, we also had such similar pain that we felt, and that we all resonated and connected on that.” — @SiennaLenae [0:01:34]
“Growing up in the early 2000s here, I just wasn't able to see myself anywhere and I inherited a lot of stereotypes very quickly.” — @SiennaLenae [0:09:02]
“I was able to gain a voice and I realized how strong that made me feel.” — @SiennaLenae [0:14:55]
“I used to also wish I was white, when I was a kid.” — @DanyMuembo [0:17:16]
Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
4 episodios
Compartir
