Upcoming Events
Ice cream social - February 6th 12:30pm in the grad lounge
EDI Journal Club- If you are interested, please fill out this when2meet, so we can schedule a day that works for everyone, and put your email down here for our journal club list.
Monthly meet up- First meet up will be March 6th at 4:30
If you want to get involved with the planning of future physibility events, come to our monthly meet-up, sign up for our organizational email list, or send us an email!
PAST EVENTS
Mental Health Awareness Event
Come learn about how mental health impacts grad students and what we can do to help improve the mental health health of ourselves and those around us. We will have a brief introduction to grad student mental health, then we will complete the Identify, Assist, Refer Training (takes about 30 minutes), then we will discuss the IAR Training and what we think we can do to support those around us.
Friday April 28, 2023
2:30-4:00PM EST
Grad Lounge, MP 110
Snacks and coffee/tea will be provided
Bring a laptop or tablet to complete the IAR Training!!
Virtual Social Group
This is a space where folks come together to take a break from work, drink some coffee, or eat lunch with others in the department while working from home.
Tuesday Social Group:
1:00PM-2:00PM EST
Meeting ID: 932 3026 4987
Thursday Social Group:
12:00PM-1:00PM EST
Meeting ID: 970 2892 6492
Podcast Club
Like a book club, but a lower time commitment. Every two weeks, we will discuss a small collection of podcasts and videos about a topic related to equity, diversity, and inclusion. Please contact us with suggestions for topics or media! These conversations will likely be uncomfortable at times, but having these uncomfortable conversations with compassion and respect is how we will all grow, learn, and empathize.
Topic: The FIFA World Cup: Qatar 2022
Time: Thursday December 15th 4:30PM EST
Meeting ID: 848 5989 0068
Passcode: physpod
Media: CANADALAND: Hoisted on their own Qatar (44 mins)
How FIFA corrupted the World Cup (13 mins)
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Topic: Neurodiversity
Time: Wednesday November 16th 3:30PM EST
Meeting ID: 836 8225 5944
Passcode: physpod
Media: The Loudest Girl in the World - Ep. 5 (45 mins)
Oh, That's Just My Autism - Ep. 10 (30 mins)
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Topic: Disability
Time: Wednesday November 2nd 3:30PM EDT
Meeting ID: 836 8225 5944
Passcode: physpod
Media: Why Don't We Care About Disabled People?
Do All Disabled People Think The Same?
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Topic: Is Perfect the Enemy of Good?
Time: Wednesday October 19th 5:00PM EDT
Meeting ID: 848 5989 0068
Passcode: physpod
Media: Sandy and Nora: Hurt vs Harm Curating Our Organizing Spaces
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Topic: Residential Schools
Time: Tuesday July 13th 4:00PM EDT
Meeting ID: 88903138513
Media: Front Burner: Confronting the Dark Side of Canadian History (23 mins)
Front Burner: Stories from the Kamloops Indian Residential School (23 mins)
Content warning: The Kamloops podcast contains graphic depictions of violence and suicide
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Topic: White Terrorism in Canada
Time: Tuesday June 29th 5:00PM EDT
Meeting ID: 88903138513
Media: CANADALAND: White Terror and the Media (36 mins)
The right perspective? YouTube, radicalisation, and Rebel Media
(11 mins)
Content warning: The video contains references to extremely racist and hateful rhetoric.
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Topic: Thirty Meter Telescope
Time: Tuesday June 15th 5:00PM EDT
Meeting ID: 88903138513
Media: Unexplainable: The hunt for a new Pluto (16 mins- relevant content starts at 16:15)
Why Native Hawaiians Protesting Giant Telescope on Mauna Kea Aren't Going Anywhere (10 mins)
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Topic: Trusting Science
Time: Tuesday June 1st 5:00PM EDT
Meeting ID: 88903138513
Media: Factually: Why Trust Science? (67 mins)
Quillette: How COVID-19 Has Exposed Short Falls of Scientific Peer Review (23 mins)
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Topic: Living with a Chronic Illness
Time: Tuesday May 18th 5:00PM EDT
Meeting ID: 88903138513
Media: Self-Helpless: Living With a Chronic Illness (89 mins)
The Invisible Diaries: What is a Spoonie? (36 mins)
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Topic: Gendered Artificial Intelligence
Time: Tuesday May 4th 5:00PM EDT
Meeting ID: 88903138513
Media: Science Weekly: Do smart assistants need a feminist reboot?
(Part 1 and Part 2 - total 37 mins)
The Documentary Podcast: The Digital Human : Subservience (27 mins)
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Topic: Body Liberation
Time: Tuesday April 13th 5:00PM EDT
Meeting ID: 88903138513
Media: Food Psych Episode #248 (90 mins)
Content warning: This podcast episode discusses disordered relationships with food and body.
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Topic: #StopAsianHate
Time: Tuesday March 30th 5:00PM EDT
Meeting ID: 88903138513
Media: TryPod (90 mins)
TryGuys Doc (70 mins)
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Topic: Non-Monogamy
Time: Tuesday March 9th 5:00PM EST
Meeting ID: 86071047677
Media: Settler Sexuality (55 mins)
Myths about Monogamy (18 mins)
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Topic: The Monetization of the BLM Movement
Time: Tuesday February 23rd 5:00PM EST
Meeting ID: 85250989084
Media:
Still Processing: Kaepernick (36 mins)
P&G Equality. Justice. Action. campaign
Statement and ads at the bottom of the page.
Further reading/watching for Black History Month:
So You Want to Talk About Race
We recommend supporting Black-owned bookstores such as A Different Booklist.
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Topic: Differential Grading Policies
Time: Tuesday February 9th 5:00PM EST
Meeting ID: 86071047677
Media:
Tea for Teaching: Differential Grading Policies (20 mins)
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Topic: Social Media and Social Division
Time: Tuesday January 26th 5:00PM EST
Meeting ID: 85250989084
Media (whatever you have the interest/time for):
Pod Save America: Tweets and Reconciliation (82 mins)
Politics Podcast: What Led to the Attack on the Capitol (70 mins)
The Social Dilemma (on Netflix) (94 mins)
A free summary video:
A Real Doctor Watches "The Social Dilemma" (27 mins)
A critique:
Should You Watch The Social Dilemma? (13 mins)
Content warning: The Social Dilemma and the related videos briefly discuss self-harm and suicide.
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Topic: Transgender Representation
Time: Tuesday December 15th 5:00PM EST
Meeting ID: 84260108632
Media:
My Non-Binary Life: Stories About Us (23 mins)
Why Elliot Page Coming Out as Trans is a BIG DEAL! (7 mins)
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Topic: University as a First-Generation Student
Time: Tuesday December 1st 5:00PM EST
Meeting ID: 82799504576
Media:
First Gen Journey: Returning to Science with Gio (32 mins)
How to College: First Gen (any episode, for further listening)
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Topic: Student Mental Health
Time: Tuesday November 17th 5:00PM EST
Meeting ID: 83388959242
Media:
Hello PhD Episode 93: The Grad Student Mental Health Crisis and What You Can Do About It (50 mins; conversation about the topic starts at 10:30)
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Topic: US Election
Time: Tuesday November 3rd 5:00PM EST
Meeting ID: 86302140365
We have decided to try something new and won’t be discussing a specific podcast. Instead we will be discussing more broad questions about the impact of the US elections (in Canada, US, and abroad), the rise of extremism (globally, not just in the US), the rise of disinformation, and how different groups are impacted differently by elections. We encourage everyone who will be joining us to find a podcast, video, or article about the topic, so that you can come having engaged with content related to the topics. We’ve provided a list of relevant podcasts and videos, in this Google Doc, for a starting place if you would prefer not to search for one yourself.
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Topic: Anti-Asian Racism in Canada
Time: Tuesday October 20th 5:00PM EDT
Meeting ID: 84644076485
Media:
The Secret Life of Canada: Chinatown (28 mins)
'Yellow Peril': How the pandemic is fuelling anti-Chinese racism (20 mins)
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Topic: Scholar Strike for Black Lives
Time: Tuesday October 6th 5:00PM EDT
Meeting ID: 96415822836
Media: Black Tax and the Invisible Labour of Black Women in the Academy
(91 mins)
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Topic: The Indian Act
Time: Tuesday September 1st 5:00PM EDT
Links that were discussed during the meeting.
Meeting ID: 93731734444
Media:
The Secret Life of Canada: The Indian Act (45 mins)
The Indian Act: What to do with it (32 mins)
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Topic: Can you Divorce the Art from the Artist?
Time: Tuesday August 18th 5:00PM EDT
Meeting ID: 94141921760
Media:
Love the Art, Hate the Artist (10 mins)
Sorting it Out: J.K. Rowling and Transphobia (60 mins)
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Topic: Ableism
Time: Tuesday August 4th 5:00PM EDT
Meeting ID: 97906146186
Media:
Getting Curious with JVN: What is Ableism? (56 mins; see CW below)
Confronting Ableism (19 mins)
Content warning: Sexually explicit language after 39:00 in Getting Curious Podcast. This content is about sexuality and dating with a physical disability and does not discuss violence, but may not be appropriate for all audiences and may be uncomfortable for some, so we will focus our discussion on the first 39 minutes of the podcast.
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Topic: Cancel Culture
Time: Tuesday July 21st 5:00PM EDT
Meeting ID: 95453102031
Media:
AsapSCIENCE: Liberals vs. Conservatives - from 26:05 (23 mins)
Black Girl Nerds: The Cancel Culture Episode - to 25:30 (25 mins)
On the Media: The Trouble with Cancel Culture (17 mins)
Content warning: sexual violence - In the second half of the Black Girl Nerds podcast (after 25:30), the hosts discuss their opinions on specifics of the #MeToo movement.
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Topic: Pride Month
Time: Tuesday July 7th 5:00PM EDT
Meeting ID: 98757147778
Media:
Stonewall Forever (22 min)
The Sound of Pride (43 min)
Additional Info:
Timeline of Canadian LGBTQ+ History
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Topic: White Fragility
Time: Tuesday June 23rd 5:00PM EDT
Meeting ID: 98558281392
Media:
Colour Code: Ep. 8 Eggshells (47 min)
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Topic: Black Lives Matter and anti-Black racism
Time: Wednesday June 10th 3:00PM EDT
Links that were discussed during the meeting.
Meeting ID: 91771108690
Media:
Code Switch: A Decade of Watching Black People Die (22 min)
Trevor Noah on George Floyd, Amy Cooper, & Racism in Society (18 min)
Colour Code: Ep. 8 Eggshells (47 min)