Our research team at Sunnybrook is using this Virtual Storytelling Space to collect stories about experiences of racism, oppression, and forms of colonialism at Sunnybrook. We invite all Sunnybrookers to share a story or stories about their experiences of racism, discrimination and effects of settler colonialism at the hospital. You may share your story online from a place and time that works for you. Your stories will be securely protected and used for research purposes. You also have the option of sharing your story with others through this website but only if you consent. We explain how you may share your story in the “Protecting your Data” page.
HAVE YOU EXPERIENCED OR WITNESSED :
Anti-Black, anti-Indigenous
racism or forms of colonialism?
Other forms of racism,
oppression, and discrimination?
In hospitals, racism, oppression, and colonialism can show up in different ways. It can sometimes look like discrimination, microaggressions, and exclusion. People who face these situations might not always recognize them as forms of racism, colonialism, or oppression. Other times, people find support and protection from discrimination, microaggressions, and exclusion.
Why is Telling Stories Important?
Our Storytelling Space provides an opportunity for you to think about some of these experiences in any way that makes sense to you. For example, you may be able to reflect on some of the following questions and more:
What is the Virtual Storytelling Space?
Our Virtual Storytelling Space provides an opportunity for you to share some of your experiences in any way that makes sense to you. For example, you may be able to reflect on some of the following questions and more:
We want to hear from ALL Sunnybrookers!
Participation in this study is open to all Sunnybrookers–-those who work, volunteer, or learn at Sunnybrook, or are involved in a Sunnybrook affiliated group or advisory panel. Eligible Sunnybrookers include:
If you are unsure about your eligibility, please contact Research Coordinator Oshan Fernando by email at oshan.fernando@sunnybrook.ca.
“Share stories, fill cold nights with the warmth of your connections, your relationships; hear each other and be made more. That is the power of storytelling”
"When the storyteller tells the truth, she reminds us that human beings are more alike than unalike... A story is what it's like to be a human being-to be knocked down and to miraculously arise. Each one of us has arisen, awakened. We do rise."