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5 activists on the alarming impacts of the pandemic on BIPOC women


This International Women’s Day, experts point to the urgent need for an intersectional feminist recovery plan.
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This International Women’s Day, experts point to the urgent need for an intersectional feminist recovery plan
Posted: Mar 05, 2021 7:09 PM ET | Last Updated: March 8
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In the past 12 months, Canadians lives have changed in the wake of the pandemic, but endless statistics show that Indigenous, Black, and other racialized women have been hit the hardest. After years of the chronic underfunding of First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities, Indigenous women and girls are experiencing higher rates of financial insecurity and heightened levels of anxiety over domestic violence. Although Black women make up only five per cent of Toronto s population, they account for 16 per cent of the city s COVID-19 cases. Women with disabilities are feeling more socially isolated and, in Ontario, trans women a ....

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