Naveen Girn

“In illustrating and problematizing notions of forward progress maintaining the status quo vis-à-vis inertia and benevolent Canadian multiculturalism this symposium disfigures identity itself as a central concept that must also be unpacked. The identity of the individual or group whether projected, assumed, subverted, resisted, parodied, or any combination of techniques or other, disrupt hegemonic discourses that seek to ideologically and at times physically confine, constrain, and fix identities for racialized migrant groups and by extension people of colour.”

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