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Winnipeg has been trying.
Recently, I was sent to photograph professional-level hockey. It was a low-key, media-only event. They checked our IDs and vaccination cards at the front door and I headed to the media gallery to photograph.
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Recently, I was sent to photograph professional-level hockey. It was a low-key, media-only event. They checked our IDs and vaccination cards at the front door and I headed to the media gallery to photograph.
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A few minutes in, a security guard walked into the media area and asked for my ID. Annoyed because I had photos to make and limited time, I told him that my ID had been checked at the door already, but he persisted. I showed him my ID to get him off my back.
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I thought he would check everyone else’s ID too (there was a freelancer without a media badge beside me) but he walked away. I later asked other journalists if they had been questioned by security for being there. They hadn’t.
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In journalism school we were taught to keep the personal separate from the professional, and to not become part of the story. However, this seems like the right time to break that rule. #BlackintheNewsroom
As a Black queer journalist, I’ve dealt with racism and homophobia in the workplace, ranging from endless micro-aggressions to blatant discrimination. Here are a few of my memories of working while Black in Canadian media.
The time when during a J-school lecture about minorities, my white instructor thought it was okay for her to say the word “nigger.” She didn’t say n-word, she said nigger.
