Dearest Education Graduate Students of Colour

Félicitations à Shelina Adatia pour la publication! Congratulations Shelina Adatia on your latest publication!

Adatia, S. (2021). Dearest Education Graduate Students of Colour. Education Graduate Students of Colour Counter-Narratives, 1(1), 1-4. https://www.egscuottawa.com/winter-2021.html

Racism in education starts early. In fact, it was in Junior Kindergarten where I, the only Muslim in Mrs. K’s class, learnt a lesson I will never forget: hell hath no cruelty like a group of four year-old white boys at recess. Sans compréhension du racisme ni des microaggressions, ces garçons m’ont présenté leurs effets néfastes sans aucune hésitation. In other words, what may have sounded like my name mispronounced, was a recurring microaggression LOUDLY pronounced. That was the start of my story of racism in education but THIS is my opportunity to rewrite that story for you and for future Education graduate students of colour. My name is Shelina, pronounced SHEH-lee-nah, and THAT is what I should have said, loudly and proudly, all those years ago. Instead, I cried in the girl’s washroom.