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In the 1980's, the Unlearning Racism Workshops became quite popular in those days. So that
is when I met a lot of people of colour, and in particular mostly women of colour because
those are the workshops that I attended.
And that was just so exciting for me. I was so happy, I couldn't believe it. I thought
"Now I am home. Now I belong somewhere. Now I have people that inspire me and people who
empower me."
So I met a lot of good people, you know, like really I felt my heart felt, I thought I found
my home.
Then we started the first - I guess probably the first - Third World Women's Group in Vancouver.
And there were people like Lee Maracle, Carolyn Jerome, Linda Ng, just to name a few people.
That was really exciting times. They were pretty serious, I was kinda neverous. I was
a kid from the country, you know, didn't think I knew anything about politics. We would get
together and they would give me full sheets and we would study about Marxism, Lenninism,
Communism, Mao, Black Panthers, everything. And I am thinking "how am I going to learn
all this".
It was fantastic. But it wasn't without problems. I wouldn't say problems, but issues. We had
issues. And we had issues because there issues of classism in the group. There was issues
of *** orientation, there were issues about ableism. We actually had to keep on reminding
ourselves that the end goal is that we all have to stick together, we have to fight against
this white system.