Unbroken: Disrupting Toxic Colonialism with Angela Sterritt

Presented by SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement
Through the power of story, acclaimed journalist and author Angela Sterritt shares an invitation to disrupt colonial violence, specifically as it relates to the ongoing crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls and two-spirit peoples.
Angela Sterritt is an award-winning investigative journalist, TV, radio, and podcast host, and national bestselling author. She is from the Wilp Wiik’aax (we-GAK) of the Gitanmaax (GIT-in-max) community within the Gitxsan (GICK-san) Nation on her dad’s side and from Bell Island, Newfoundland on her maternal side. Sterritt worked as a television, radio, and digital journalist at CBC for more than a decade. She also hosted the award-winning CBC original podcast Land Back.
Her book Unbroken, published by Greystone Books, is part memoir and part investigation into the murders and disappearances of Indigenous women and girls. It became an instant national bestseller in May 2023. Unbroken was nominated for the Governor General’s Literary Awards, one of Canada’s oldest and most prestigious literary prizes. It was also nominated for the prestigious Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust award for best non-fiction book in Canada.
In 2024, Sterritt announced her second book, BREAKABLE, which will investigate how racism and colonialism cultivate harmful behaviors in men and how Indigenous men and communities are breaking cycles of unhealthy notions of masculinity. Greystone Books will publish Breakable in the spring of 2026.
Link to Unbroken: storestock.mas...
Moderator:
Ginger Gosnell-Myers is Nisga'a and Kwakwaka'wakw, whose 20+ year career challenging colonial systems is creating new pathways for radical change. She is the first Indigenous Fellow with the Simon Fraser University Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue, where she focuses on Decolonization and Urban Indigenous Policy and Planning. She played an integral role in making Vancouver the world's first official City of Reconciliation, which was an outgrowth of her work on the landmark Environics Urban Indigenous Peoples Study, the first comprehensive research of its kind in Canada.
Ginger’s goal is to re-define government policies and industry processes, creating new standards that meet commitments to UNDRIP and the TRC 94 Calls to Action. She has a chapter in Sacred Civics (2022) titled “Co-creating the cities we deserve through Indigenous knowledge”, and has delivered a TedX Talk - ‘Canadian Shame: A History of Residential Schools’. Ginger became Chair of the Board in February 2023.