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Title: Interview with confidential participant 002
Description: A McMaster student of psychology and social work discusses the importance of mental health awareness and the difference between mental health and mental illness. The participant discusses different tools for building mental health awareness, including online resources, workshops, lived experience and conversations with peers. They also speak about cultural stigma and taboo surrounding mental illness and how mental health education continues to be taught from a colonial perspective.
Subject: Activism, Anti-colonialism, Mental health, Social work

Title: Interview with Raagini Appadurai
Description: Raagini Appadurai shares her experience with racism, coming as an immigrant from India at a young age, and her growing love for activism and ant-racism movements. As an educator, she speaks about confronting powers, gaining knowledge, and pursuing social equity, and how she solidly stepped into the field of activism in her high school years, providing a stable platform for herself and her peers to speak about matters pertaining to social justice.
Subject: Activism, Anti-colonialism, Anti-racism, Ethnicity, Race

Title: Interview with Louange
Subject: Activism, Colourism, Digital activism, Fat activism, Inclusion, Intersectionality

Title: Interview with Margaret McPhail
Description: Margaret McPhail talks about her experience as an activist, through her role as a secondary school teacher and staff member at the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation (OSSTF/FEESO). She also describes her role on the International Women's Day Committee and with Organized Working Women.
Subject: Activism, Education, Feminism

Title: Interview with Carla Neto
Description: Carla Neto speaks about her work as a social activist at Women's Habitat, working in a variety of positions for over 24 years and helping vulnerable women and children get the support they need. The focus of the interview is immigrant women and how Carla continues to assist these women.
Subject: Gender, Housing, Immigration, Sexuality, Violence, Women

Title: Interview with Lauri Sue Robertson
Subject: Accessibility, Activism, Community, Disabilities, Diversity, Leadership

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