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resisting? What strengths and resistance can you identify in her story? If we situate the girl and the present policy within the context of colonialism, poverty, racism, and discrimination among others, how is this policy, in reference to her, shaped by

occurrences provided the foundation for current issues affecting young Indigenous women. These incidents—residential school and the consequent involvement with the foster system—have bred racism along with the stereotypes and assumptions attached to Indigenous

patriarchy, racism, and other discriminatory structures ( Bergmann and Ossewaarde 2020 ; Walters 2016 ). There remains a stubborn process of making girls—particularly girls of color and other socially marginalized girls— invisible in public discourse and in

have been affected by interlocking systems of oppression such as sexism, classism, and racism. Womanism seeks to understand these linked systems of oppression rather than merely opposing patriarchal ideologies ( Collins 2000 ; Crenshaw 1989 ; Phillips

-oriented nonviolent technologies. As Fairbairn and Black (2015) point out, these organizations focus not only on individual safety strategies but also on addressing intersecting systemic issues underlying cyberviolence, such as racism, homophobia, and sexism

transition, feeling its way from white minority rule and authoritarianism toward democracy and a commitment to ending poverty, inequality, racism, and the oppression of women. This article provides valuable insights about how Raewyn's ideas traveled

access and recruit young Indigenous girls, making them readily available to pimps and johns given the “racism and sexism in Canadian culture that has allowed Indigenous women to be devalued and viewed as disposable sexual objects.” He suggests that

-line of what looks like an anti-racism demonstration. In subversively invoking typical features of a Bollywood film, the director has Khanum literally falling into Laila’s lap in the post-demonstration teargas-infested chaos. Khanum’s boldness and Laila

, she identifies contradictory parts of her life which is not uncommon for girls who must contend with the “matrix of domination” ( Collins 2000: 18 ) where racism, classism, sexism, and other forms of oppression intersect. Girls facing these challenges

. While it presents the group that nurtures Shaun as uncharacteristically agreeable, it projects a nightmarishly bleak and dystopian 1980s. The narrative, focusing in its second half on brutal racism, is, in these scenes, anything but nostalgic. However