{"id":2623,"date":"2020-06-27T15:51:49","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T19:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.cohds.com\/?p=2623"},"modified":"2025-06-11T14:21:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T18:21:49","slug":"rushdia-mehreen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/rushdia-mehreen\/","title":{"rendered":"Rushdia Mehreen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-kaegh92q-0f247445f537c7f21cfa55dd5360a60f\">\n#top .av_textblock_section.av-kaegh92q-0f247445f537c7f21cfa55dd5360a60f .avia_textblock{\nfont-size:40px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-kaegh92q-0f247445f537c7f21cfa55dd5360a60f '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock member_tagline'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p class=\"p1\">Affili\u00e9 chercheuse<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-1na74-97aeafef53f71afb4fdb64dd0cc878c0\">\n.flex_column.av-1na74-97aeafef53f71afb4fdb64dd0cc878c0{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-1na74-97aeafef53f71afb4fdb64dd0cc878c0 av_three_fifth  avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_one_full  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  column-top-margin'     ><style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-kaegkhpa-83e5489889ff56ee7f34df46356c3d5b\">\n.avia-image-container.av-kaegkhpa-83e5489889ff56ee7f34df46356c3d5b img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-kaegkhpa-83e5489889ff56ee7f34df46356c3d5b .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-kaegkhpa-83e5489889ff56ee7f34df46356c3d5b av-styling-no-styling avia-align-center  avia-builder-el-2  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '   itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" class='wp-image-6812 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-6812 avia_image ' src=\"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/rushdia-300x300.png\" alt='' title='rushdia'  height=\"300\" width=\"300\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" srcset=\"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/rushdia.png 300w, https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/rushdia-80x80.png 80w, https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/rushdia-36x36.png 36w, https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/rushdia-180x180.png 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-140zk-a281ff49a6f95782d655c2e931272c56\">\n.flex_column.av-140zk-a281ff49a6f95782d655c2e931272c56{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-140zk-a281ff49a6f95782d655c2e931272c56 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-3  el_after_av_three_fifth  avia-builder-el-last  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-kaegh92q-a4bd548fb113ac38bd4baec72f7092ab '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Rushdia Mehreen is a grassroots organizer based in Tiohti\u00e0:ke\/Montreal, on unceded Kanien\u2019keh\u00e1:ka territories. For over a decade she has been involved in various social justice struggles, including Palestine\/anti-colonial solidarity, the Quebec student movement, migrant justice, collective care and anti-racist organizing. She is currently a college teacher in a precarious capacity and a PhD student at Universit\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al. Over the past years, she has conducted research on the role of power dynamics in activism and has conducted interviews on life stories of activists and their experience of burnout. She is published in Briarpatch, Canadian Dimension, among other publications.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Life stories of anti-colonial, anti-racist activists<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This project aims to interview and document life stories of anti-colonial and anti-racist activists who are first generation immigrants, also settlers, on the unceded indigenous land, in the Tionni\u2019tiotiah:ke, Kanien\u2019keh\u00e1:ka territory (so-called Montreal) and elsewhere on the Turtle Island. The first generation immigrants, particularly those who arrived here early in their lives, like herself, are subjected to a particular type of discrimination and racism that leaves them hanging between their two homes, two realities, and not being able to identify completely with one or the other. As such the contrast of \u00ab\u00a0back home\u00a0\u00bb and the current realities, submerged in the context of Canadian colonialism provides for in depth stories interlaced by anti-racist and anti-colonial struggles. As part of this project, Rushdia intends to interview at least five anti-racist, anti-colonial activists, chosen via a snowball sampling. These activists would also be those who are not already in the media, who mostly do behind the scenes work that is often not recognized. The interviews would be posted on various media and transcribed to be published in popular magazines and also submitted to academic journals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Life stories of movement \u00ab\u00a0veterans\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The aim of this project is to document life stories of veteran activists involved in social justice work, principally in so-called Montreal. So much is to be learned from our fellow activists who have lived many seasons and flavours of activism and in so many different contexts. This project aims to sit down with these beautiful people to hear their stories and that of various ups and downs and how they prevailed. What lessons can the up and coming activists learn from their resilience and steadfastness. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,90,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-affilie-e-s","category-affilie-e-s-chercheur-euse-s","category-communaute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2623"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23510,"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623\/revisions\/23510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}