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Pathy Foundation Fellowship programming takes place across Turtle Island and the world, and is headquartered on unceded Lnu’k (Mi’kmaq) land, Wabanaki Confederacy territory, as well as unceded sites of meeting and exchange among Anishinaabeg and Haudenosaunee peoples. These territories are governed and influenced by their own unique treaties, histories, and present-day contexts. The Pathy Fellowship recognizes that land acknowledgements are only a small part of disrupting colonial structures. “Canada” is a settler-colonial state, built on stolen land, pursued and formalized through ongoing attempted assimilation and violence against Indigenous Peoples across Turtle Island. As a youth leadership and community development program, we recognize that the social justice and change we seek to address are by-products of centuries of colonization and global systems of inequality.

We are all Treaty Peoples. What is your relationship to the land?

The term “alumnx” has recently begun to be used as a gender-neutral alternative reference to graduates, in place of the terms “alumnus” (single male graduate), “alumna” (single female graduate) and “alumni” (both multiple male graduates and multiple male and female graduates). This term is starting to be used by scholars, activists and an increasing number of journalists, and is beginning to make inroads among the general public. It is used in a similar way to the term “Latinx” (which replaces “Latino” and “Latina”), with the intention of moving beyond gender binary and expressing inclusivity and appreciation for the intersecting identities of people, enabling inclusivity for people who are Two-Spirit, trans, queer, agender, non-binary, gender non-conforming or gender-fluid. As a program committed to the values of social justice, inclusion, and anti-oppressive practices, the Pathy Foundation Fellowship has adopted this term to reflect these values and our attitude of acceptance of and welcome to all people.

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