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Exploring the experiences of racialized residents in two Toronto neighborhoods

Exploring the experiences of racialized residents in two Toronto neighborhoods

Racialized residents in Jane and Finch and St. James Town neighbourhoods identified structural and systemic barriers to accessing, using, and navigating greenspaces, the study finds. Park Perceptions and Racialized Realities is a community-based participatory research project that explores the experiences of racialized and Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC) in public greenspaces. The research,

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Toronto greenspaces create structural, systemic barriers for racialized residents

Toronto greenspaces create structural, systemic barriers for racialized residents

Racialized residents could face structural and systemic barriers to accessing, using and navigating Toronto’s greenspaces, say the authors of a new report led by York University. The report, “Park Perceptions and Racialized Realities: Exploring the experiences of racialized residents in two Toronto neighbourhoods,” offers several recommendations toward making the city’s public greenspaces more welcoming to

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Lessons learned from facilitating critical audience engagement with the celling sex film

Lessons learned from facilitating critical audience engagement with the celling sex film

“Because at the end of the day, whether I’m trading my body for sex, or my mind for like a university degree, or I’m trading my ability to play soccer to be a professional soccer player, I’m still just trading what I can do, and what I can do well for the world. But the

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The home and adolescent girls' sexual wellbeing during COVID-19

The home and adolescent girls' sexual wellbeing during COVID-19

How does the home impact adolescent girls’ sexual wellbeing? What kinds of norms about sex and sexuality exist in the home? How has the quality of sexual relationships and wellbeing changed by being home more often due to COVID-19 stay-at-home orders? These are the questions that CGS-M recipient, Leah Coppella, is exploring in her MA

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Sarah Flicker

Sarah Flicker

Professor York Research Chair (Tier2) in Community-Based Participatory Research Credentials PhD Social Science and Health, University of TorontoMPH Maternal & Child Health and Epidemiology, University of California, BerkeleyBA (Honours) Medical Anthropology, Brown University Research Keywords Adolescent Sexual & Reproductive Health; Community-Based Participatory Research; HIV/AIDS; And Community Development. Contact Information 4700 Keele StreetToronto, ON M3J 1P3 416 736 2100

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Examining intersections of youth, pedagogy, sexuality, and technology

Examining intersections of youth, pedagogy, sexuality, and technology

How can sex, relationships, and health education pedagogies meaningfully address the role new media plays in young people’s relational lives? How can these pedagogies also take an intersectional and holistic lens to young people’s seemingly individual experiences of sex, gender, relationality, and violence? These are the research questions that have guided Dr. Alanna Goldstein’s work

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Transnational Perspectives on COVID-19’s Impact on Youth Sexuality, Risk and Relationships

Transnational Perspectives on COVID-19’s Impact on Youth Sexuality, Risk and Relationships

Principal Investigator: Sarah Flicker. Funding: SSHRC New Frontiers Research Fund. Term: 2021-2023. The project brings together an international and interdisciplinary team of scholars with expertise in participatory methods, sexuality, and global health research. The project’s multi-method, multidisciplinary, and multi-site research will examine how COVID-19 is redefining risk and re-forming youth sexuality in Australia, Canada, and

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Re-Search for Re-Creation: Youth Making with Place to Catalyze Change

Re-Search for Re-Creation: Youth Making with Place to Catalyze Change

Principal Investigator: Sarah Flicker. Partner: Sketch Working Arts. Funding: SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant. Term: 2021-2023. The project aims to build on and actualize the knowledge and learning surfaced and generated by Sketch Working Arts' Making with Place youth artist researchers, to disseminate key stories and findings, and identify pathways forward for the Sketch agency, and

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Community-based participatory research

Community-based participatory research

Principal Investigator: Sarah Flicker Funding: York Research Chair Term: 2020-2025 The overarching goal of the research program is to improve the sexual and reproductive health outcomes of youth communities with a special emphasis on those communities that experience heightened vulnerabilities as a result of historic and ongoing structural and interpersonal violence. Focusing on improving structural,

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Engaging community stakeholder groups in health research

Engaging community stakeholder groups in health research

For more than a decade, Professor Sarah Flicker has been engaged with various community stakeholder groups and allied practitioners in health equity research. In line with her combined roles as York Research Chair (Tier2) in Community-Based Participatory Research and Environmental Arts and Justice Coordinator, Flicker actively extends her capacity-bridging approach with urban and rural racialized youth and women in conducting

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