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- Cultivating a community of care at SFU Surrey and beyond
- Celebrating 20 years of SFU in Surrey
- Bringing ArtsLIVE to SFU Surrey
- Sustainability in the heart of Surrey's city centre
- It’s all about CO-OPeration: My experience with SFU Co-op
- Renewing our commitment to reconciliation and decolonization
- Reconnect and recharge this summer
- Community on Campus: SFU Surrey's 20th Anniversary Recap
- 2021
- Supporting one another and raising awareness on sexual assault
- Why Bell Let's Talk Day matters to me
- International Women's Day: Celebrating the Strong Women in My Life
- The Glass Half Full: The Challenges of 2020 & The Promise of 2021
- Moving forward: Next steps for anti-racism dialogues at SFU Surrey
- Honouring the 215 lives lost
- Walking together towards inclusion
- Summer message from Steve Dooley
- Welcome back to campus!
- Honouring the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
- Introducing The Journey Here: a new podcast from SFU Surrey
- Holiday greetings, a look back on 2021 and hope for 2022
- 2020
- Let's talk about mental health and well-being
- Lift Each Other Up on Pink Shirt Day
- 2020 Homeless Count in Surrey
- Surrey campus vibe is alive-and-strong during COVID-19
- It’s Long Overdue - Moving The Dial on Racism & Discrimination
- Thank You President Petter for 10 Amazing Years
- Welcoming Joy Johnson, SFU's 10th President
- Get to know Steve Dooley, Executive Director of SFU's Surrey Campus
- In case you missed it: Fall 2020 Campus-wide meeting
- The fight against COVID-19: Surrey researchers at their best!
- Season's greetings from Steve Dooley
- 2019
- Community Perspectives on Living with HIV and where we go From Here
- Celebrating International Women’s Day at SFU’s Surrey Campus
- OppFest at the Surrey campus
- New campus building expands SFU Surrey campus
- Pink Shirt Day
- Power of Partnerships: Surrey Schools
- Welcome to Fall 2019
- SFU Surrey and Orange Shirt Day
- World Mental Health Week
- Health-related research and innovation is thriving in Surrey
- SFU Surrey students changing the world in 2019
- Podcast: The Journey Here
- Season 1
- Ep. 1 | Joy Johnson: Leading with Compassion and Care
- Ep. 2 | Kue K'nyawmupoe: Connecting and Serving Communities
- Ep. 3 | Doug Tennant: Empowering Leaders with Diverse Abilities
- Ep. 4 | Kathleen Burke: Igniting Community Leaders
- Ep. 5 | Rochelle Prasad: Sparking the Leaders of Tomorrow
- Ep. 6 | Bailey Mumford: An Advocate for Housing and Belonging
- Ep. 7 | Matt Hern: Supporting Community Development through Worker Co-operatives
- Ep. 8 | Joanne Curry: Engaging Our Campus and Community
- Ep. 9 | Michael Heeney: Building Surrey's City Centre
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Black History Month book recommendations from Fraser Library
For the duration of February, the Fraser Library hosted an in-person display to mark Black History Month. We reached out to some of the librarians to share some of their favourite book and movie recommendations to learn more about the stories, histories, and experiences of Black Canadians, which you can access all year round:
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
"Told through multiple perspectives across decades, I recommend The Vanishing Half as it tackles the complex issues of racial identity, bigotry, suppression, and the lasting influence of decisions and desires." (Borrow the book)
— Melissa, Librarian for Faculty of Education
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
“It's sprawling and funny and smart.” (Borrow the book)
Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
“Genre-defying harrowing tale of Cora's escape from slavery.” (Borrow the book)
Get Out, directed by Jordan Peele
“These two words, and what they allude to, are permanently seared into my brain.” (Learn more)
— Holly, Librarian for Faculty of Applied Sciences
Old Dog by Teresa Cárdenas Angulo
"I read this book a long time ago when I was much younger, but it is one of the few books that remain engrained in my life. I recommend this book because it gives a sense of hope from an attempt to escape and overcome oppression." (Borrow the book)
— Richard, User Services & Engagement Librarian at Fraser Library
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi
"I recommend reading Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me because it is poetic and unsettling in its perceptive articulation of White supremacy’s impact on Black bodies, and how this impact is sustained through policy and institution. This insight is framed in a deeply moving account of Coates’s own experience that he shares with his son, who was 15 at the time." (Borrow the book)
Feel Free: Essays by Zadie Smith
"I also recommend Zadie Smith’s Feel Free: Essays, because Smith’s abilities as a novelist—her cleverness and wit, her skill at drawing unexpected connections, her understanding of both joy and despair—are on full display in this wonderful and extensive collection of essays." (Borrow the book)
— Matt, Librarian for School of Interactive Arts and Technology and Publishing