Resources
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Lesson Plans
This package is designed to equip your elementary students with an understanding of the June 6th terrorist attack on the Afzaal family in London, Ontario. This package asks students to examine and interrupt their own unconscious biases and form real allyship with those on the receiving end of anti-Muslim hate. This package provides tools for students to combat Islamophobia as it occurs in their schools. It includes 40-minute lesson plans for each grade.
A series of resources, curriculum guides and Book reccomendations to help fill the gap in educating about the experiences and history of Muslims all over the world.
A set of digital resources, online courses, workshops, videos and infographics that have been catered to educate, and engage, with administrators, educators, students and parents through an anti-racism and diversity lens.
Web-available resources focusing on Islam, Islamic history and recognizing contributions to the arts and sciences from Muslims.
Islamic Heritage
A participatory archive that is uniquely designed to document and share the history, lives, and experiences of Muslims across Canada.
Photographer Faisa Omer juxtaposes the fear and joy of being a Black Muslim woman in Edmonton
The Sisters Project combats negative stereotypes of Muslim women by showcasing the diverse stories of women across Canada, while also creating a space of inclusion and belonging for all self-identifying Muslim women to embrace and celebrate their unique identities
1001 Inventions is an award-winning international science and cultural heritage organisation that raises awareness of the creative golden age of Arabic Science.
Islamophobia
This package is designed to equip your elementary students with an understanding of the June 6th terrorist attack on the Afzaal family in London, Ontario. This package asks students to examine and interrupt their own unconscious biases and form real allyship with those on the receiving end of anti-Muslim hate. This package provides tools for students to combat Islamophobia as it occurs in their schools. It includes 40-minute lesson plans for each grade.
A series of resources, curriculum guides and Book reccomendations to help fill the gap in educating about the experiences and history of Muslims all over the world.
The Islamophobia Research Hub is a community-engaged, change-making initiative to combat Islamophobia. Based at the York Centre for Asian Research at York University, the Hub's central role is to produce cutting-edge analyses of Islamophobic praxis and build innovative solutions.
This resource: encourages individuals who use it to explore Islam and Muslim Cultures in order to appreciate the diversity of Muslim peoples and communities truly, examines the multiple and intersectional nature of Muslim identities and seeks to deepen an understanding of the historical and present-day manifestations of anti-Muslim racism.
A set of digital resources, online courses, workshops, videos and infographics that have been catered to educate, and engage, with administrators, educators, students and parents through an anti-racism and diversity lens.
Aligned with the Ontario Curriculum expectations in subject areas such as Health, Social Studies and Language, META has created and curated resources anchored in Dr. Gholdy Muhammad’s Equity Framework.
The Challenge Islamophobia Project offers lessons and resource to teach all of us to rethink what we know about Islamophobia.
This resource provides some ideas on how to address the recent attack on Canadian Muslims in the classroom
Web-available resources focusing on Islam, Islamic history and recognizing contributions to the arts and sciences from Muslims.
A series of web-available resources on Islamophobia that you can use in your classroom.
Powerful Videos you can use to explore the Muslim experience around the horrific events that took place on Jan 29, 2017
January 29 is a date where the Muslims in Quebec and the rest of Canada will forever mourn. This is why a group of Muslim organizations, including the Quebec City mosque came together to launch The Green Square Campaign.
Black and Muslim
Young Somali men are being killed at an alarming rate in Toronto and nearly half of their cases dating back more than a decade have gone unsolved.
To explore the scope and content of the available work about Black Muslims in Canada, a systematic review was done that focused on available published, unpublished, and grey literature.
This toolkit is designed to nurture healthy. thriving children who are joyful, curious and engage the world with confidence and pride in their Black and Muslim identities.
Spotlights various Black Canadian Women, and the amazing work they are doing.
LGBTQ+ and Islam
An attempt to find a mutual understanding between proponents of Pride month & Muslim communities in an Ontario context.
Curated list of various resources for parents of 2SLGBTQI+ Muslim Youth
I am enough is a public awareness campaign that shares and highlights stories of strength, resilience, and love – of queer and trans Muslims in Canada.
Salaam Canada is a volunteer-run national organization dedicated to creating space for people who identify as both Muslim and queer and trans.
This resource is for young Muslims who want support around their various complicated identities, from religion to sexual orientation and gender identity.