UTC ‘Anti-Black racism is a crisis’: U of T scholar imagines a freer society Robyn Maynard, a PhD candidate at U of T's Women and Gender Studies Institute, has studied – and participated in – social movements committed to Black and Indigenous liberation for more than a decade (photo by Stacy Lee Photography) For scholars and activists like Robyn Maynard, our current reckoning with anti-Black racism is long overdue – and not just in the United States. The protests that erupted around the world following George Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police last year also served to raise awareness of anti-Black racism and structural inequities in Canada, a country that has long celebrated its multicultural approach.