In this Timelines Talk, Punjabi Sikh writer and organizer Harsha Walia delivers a lecture exploring the legacies of displacement and dispossession that have shaped present-day “Vancouver.”
In this Timelines Talk, Punjabi Sikh writer and organizer Harsha Walia delivers a lecture exploring the legacies of displacement and dispossession that have shaped present-day “Vancouver.”
Harsha Walia is a Punjabi Sikh writer and organizer who has been an unpaid organizer in migrant justice, anti-capitalist, feminist, abolitionist, and anti-colonial movements for the past two decades, including through grassroots collectives such as No One Is Illegal, Defenders of the Land, and Anti-Capitalist Convergence. Her day gig is in an anti-violence service provider organization supporting survivors of gender-based violence. She is the award-winning author of Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism (2021) and Undoing Border Imperialism (2013), and co-author of Never Home: Legislating Discrimination in Canadian Immigration as well as Red Women Rising: Indigenous Women Survivors in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.
