Courageous Conversations: Complaint, Diversity and Other Hostile Environments

(Begins at 2:03) Courageous Conversations is sponsored and hosted by UCalgary's Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion www.ucalgary.ca/equity-divers...
In this lecture, Dr. Ahmed will bring together stories about making complaints by academics and students of colour to show how universities remain hostile environments despite or even through official policies on diversity and inclusion. She explains why doors keep coming up in stories of complaint with specific reference to the “diversity door.” People of colour are assumed to enter that door, which is often shut by appearing to be open. The lecture explores how those who complain become strangers or suspects, “persons to be interrogated.” Complaints about hostile environments are made in hostile environments.