Zool Suleman, Editor, Rungh
Critical Reflections on Asian/South Asian Culture Making (1990s -2020s) through a Rungh lens
Zool Suleman is the Editor of Rungh and the Executive Director of the Rungh Cultural Society. He co-founded Rungh in 1991. He has been involved in a variety of capacities with the Canada Council for the Arts, Heritage Canada, Province of BC (arts and culture), and the City of Vancouver (immigration and arts/culture). His writing has been published in Ankur, Fuse, Parallelogram, the Vancouver Sun, the Vancouver Observer, and the National Observer. He has been a member of various arts Boards in Vancouver including the Vancouver Folk Music Festival, the Vancouver East Cultural Centre, and the Pacific Music Industry Association.
Enakshi Dua, Professor. Chair of the Race Equity Committee, School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies, York University.
AsianCrit or Critical Race Theory? Thinking How to Theorize anti-Asian racism in relation to anti-Black racism and Indigeneity
Enakshi Dua is a Professor in the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at York University. She teaches critical race theory, anti-racist feminist theory, post colonial studies and feminist theory. She has published extensively on theorizing racism and anti-racism, racism in Canadian Universities, equity policies and anti-racism policies. Her notable publications include Scratching the Surface: Canadian Anti-Racist Feminist Thought, The Hindu Woman’s Question, From Subjects To Aliens: Indian Migrants, The Racialisation of Canadian Citizenship, Decolonising Anti-Racism, Theorizing Anti-Racism: Linkages in Marxism and Critical Race Theories and The Equity Myth: Race, Racialization and Indigeneity in Canadian Universities.
Rita Wong, Poet-Scholar, Emily Carr University of Art and Design
Decolonizasian Revisited: Centring Relations with Indigenous Communities and Lands
Rita Wong is a poet-scholar who attends to the relationships between water justice, ecology, and decolonization. She has co-edited an anthology with Dorothy Christian entitled Downstream: Reimagining Water, based on a gathering that brought together elders, artists, scientists, writers, scholars, students and activists around the urgent need to care for the waters that give us life. A recipient of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and the Asian Canadian Writers’ Workshop Emerging Writer Award, Wong is the author of several books of poetry, including most recently current, climate (Wilfrid Laurier UP 2021).