The prestigious 2023 Agnes Benidickson Tricolour Award was given to Laura Devenny, ArtSci ’23, Nishana Ramsawak, PhD ’24, Samara Lijiam, ArtSci ’23, and Jane Mao, MEd ’23.
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Nicole Osayande was surrounded by Black and South Asian students while attending C.W. Jeffreys, a high school in a northwest Toronto neighbourhood with a diverse population. Activism and advocacy were routine, part of an everyday effort to change negative attitudes about the teens she mingled with every day.
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For years, Black artists have been criticized for fashion choices that are now celebrated in the mainstream. Fatou Tounkara, ArtSci’21, is challenging that narrative.
She’s president of the Queen’s Student Diversity Project (QSDP), a club created in 2017 with the aim of increasing and promoting diversity on campus.
“For Black History Month, we wanted to create an event to celebrate Black culture, Black identities,” Tounkara told
The Journal.
“As you know, last year was a very hard year for the Black community, and so what we wanted to do is a more lighthearted event where we can still celebrate Black culture and also highlight the issues that Black people face but in a fun way,” she said.
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This article contains words from the video “Black Women Dating at Predominantly White Institutions,” but is by no means a comprehensive summary of the diverse scope of its content.
Nicole Osayande, ArtSci 21, launched her YouTube channel and digital community, Black Beauty Tech, this week. Her first full video, titled “Black Women Dating at Predominantly White Institutions,” is a roundtable conversation featuring seven Queen’s students. In the video, the group of women discuss their experiences as Black women in Queen’s dating and hookup culture.
“[Black Beauty Tech] is essentially a space for me to talk about everything I love Blackness, beauty, and tech but it’s also to create a space for Black women to be authentically themselves in the tech space,” Osayande told The Journal.