These diverse and creative products are an outcome of an innovative youth engaged participatory action research project that examined spaces of encounter between Indigenous and racial minority girls and young women, age 12 to 18 years.   The program employed Indigenous and Taiko drumming, discussions, and digital media workshops to give voice to girls’ experiences of living in a relatively homogenous, mid-sized city like Victoria.

Special Thanks to: Grace Salez and MediaNet, Surrounded by Cedars, University of Victoria Graduate Students Society, University of Victoria Student Union, Marie Cooper, Elder with the Saanich First Nations and the University of Victoria Elders’ Council, Louise Milburn, Aboriginal Cultural Awareness and Healing, SD 61, Gayle Nye, Uminara Taiko Drummers, CFUV, University of Victoria Clearihue Computing Lab, Pink Sheep Media, Dept. of Women’s Studies and School of Child and Youth Care, University of Victoria, Dr. Jo-Anne Lee, Dr. Sandrina de Finney, Dr. Veronica Pacini Ketchabaw, Principal Researchers, University of Victoria,  and Research Facilitators: Nish Khanna, Ashley Jacob, Melanie Matining, Tracy Ho, and Manjeet Birk, Executive Director of Antidote.

We’re Just Sayin’ In the Summer: Gurl Solidarity Media Program is a 5 day media program and research initiative with in collaboration with the Department of Women’s Studies.  Today is the last day of our media program.  : ( sniff!  It’s been such an amazing experience so far.  Through this media program we are working with over 20 gurlz to learn new skills and empowering all of us to use these mediums to tell their our unique stories.  This has been a really great opportunity because we get such few opportunities as racialized girls and women to tell our stories and to have them heard in different formats.  I am really excited because all of these amazing gurlz will now be part of our antidote community and hopefully really soon you will see them sharing their skillz on our blog.