The 'Beyond The Boards Summit'' on Friday and Saturday is designed to tackle a root cause identified at the heart of racism, sexism, homophobia, discrimination and exclusion.
“I can relate to being an outsider. I was teased on the ice for many years about being shacked up with Graham James. People walked on pine cones around Sheldon or didn’t include him.”
“To get to the root, we have to start peeling off all of those layers,” Fowler told CP. “What spills out from hypermasculinity are those things — racism, homophobia.“One of the outcomes of hypermasculinity that kind of brought us to this point is sexism. And in our data, sexism just stunk everywhere, but the players themselves didn’t identify it as sexism. That’s just the nature of the culture of men’s ice hockey.
“Each topic, or part of culture that we’re trying to get at, that will determine who the audience is as we move forward. This particular audience will be really around what Dr. Fowler’s talking about and it will be incredibly uncomfortable and intentionally so. It needs to be.”Bill Proudman, a co-founder of White Men As Full Diversity Partners and who has worked with the NHL, is among the summit’s presenters. New federal sports minister Carla Qualtrough is also scheduled to speak Friday.
Kennedy takes a one-issue-at-a-time approach. He wants people leaving the summit feeling ready to change, and not overwhelmed.
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