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In this paper four critical scholars/ activists reflect on the complex institutional and public responses to recent white supremacist events on Canadian campuses and the equity discussions they have affected. Specifically, we interrogate practices, which reify and reinsure positions of dominance and human/social hierarchy in four ways. To begin, (1) we interrogate freedom of speech and freedom of expression positions, as well as the reliance on critique of neoliberalism to supplant analyses of racism and colonial logics, to identify their role in preserving white fragility. Next, (2) we provide a local media analysis of academe's responses to white supremacy on campus to trace the discursive moves that obscure institutional racism. Following these contextual scaffoldings, (3) we explore the ways equity projects within institutions remain projects protecting and preserving whiteness while exploiting the politics of identity. Finally, (4) we carefully reflect on the various modes of inclusion in the academy, which produce racialized scholars(hip) to be complicit in the reproduction of racial thinking, alongside and occluded by institutional narratives of equity and progress. Critical questions are raised regarding the possibilities, complicities and complexities of achieving equity and transformation in the academy, as well as the role of racialized scholars(hip) in this work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the process of critical reflection on the development and implementation of a strategy to provide more appropriate access and barrier-free services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, transgender, intersex, queer, questioning, 2-Spirited, and allies (LGBTTIQQ2SA) populations at a community-based early psychosis intervention mental health program in Toronto. There is a long history of mental health assessment and diagnostic issues for LGBTTIQQ2SA populations that have been associated with the medicalizing of difference and the pathologization of gender and sexual orientation. The experiences of people of diverse gender identities, gender expressions, and sexual orientations have resulted in unique mental health service needs, requiring affirming and appropriate services that do not participate in the reproduction of Othering through labeling and stigmatization. The strong relationship between institutionalized oppression, school victimization, discrimination, LGBTTIQQ2SA-directed violence, and mental health issues highlight the complexities that demand critical reflection and reflexivity in order to transform mental health services beyond discursive or rhetorical changes. This article explores a summary of the findings and achievements in this journey toward transformation as well as lessons learned, recommendations for similar initiatives, and questions for future research and practice. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]