Karen Balcom
@KarenBalcom
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History & Community Engagement at McMaster U, Settler, Parent, Feminist
Joined March 2013
Today I will be sharing how #HamOnt residents, social workers, community health care experts, nurses, doctors, & community orgs worked together to restructure the @cityofhamilton's Board of Health 👇🏿 https://t.co/zidACqZsJ8
@McMasterSocSci @McMasterU
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🎉Kick off your @supercrawl weekend with us! Join McMaster’s Office of Community Engagement for a pop-up of workshops, activities & community connections in downtown #HamOnt. Sept 12, 3–5:30PM @ One James North. ✨ RSVP & learn more: https://t.co/ZEV5UxHot9
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📣 Only two days left to vote in the AHA Elections! Hear Sherene Seikaly, our candidate for Vice President of the professional Division explain how & why the democratization of AHA is about Palestine, queer liberation, black liberation, class politics, and protecting immigrants.
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.@McMasterU is harboring hate. Profs take $$ from an anti-trans hate org -- and they know it. Read and share this important piece from @theSpec in #HamOnt: https://t.co/W4seojXAvR
@HCCI1 @EquityNetworkD @swaphamilton
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archived 12 Jul 2025 11:52:14 UTC
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Because media decided to sweep an assassinated Democratically elected lawmaker under the rug, I will post this.
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📢 Meet the 2025 Research Impact Canada Engaged Scholarship Award winners — including two winners from @mcmasteru! 🎉 Join @researchimpact's FREE webinar on June 26 to learn about their award-winning projects, which drive real-world impact. Register: https://t.co/sdmVhFGOtX
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The @McMasterU & @McMasterOCE community joins the Filipino(x) community in grieving & caring for each other after the tragic event at the Lapu-Lapu Day Festival. Statement of solidarity, signed by Directors Dr. @ajesusjoseph, Dr. @LeaRavensbergen, & Dr. @KarenBalcom
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@McMasterOCE joins the Filipino(x) community in grieving & caring for each other after the tragic event at the Lapu-Lapu Day Festival. Read our statement of solidarity, signed by Directors Dr. Ameil J. Joseph, Dr. Léa Ravensbergen, & Dr. Karen Balcom: https://t.co/vAGwpxwg9F
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Indigenous scholars & practitioners reflect on the C2UExpo theme, "Partners in Place." Grounded in the values of relationality reciprocity & respect for land & community. @MacEwanResearch @McMasterU
@KarenBalcom @ajesusjoseph
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Historian here you could call it happy tariff day or happy Great Depression day or you could call it late stage rapacious capitalism
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If you let the executive deport people to a foreign gulag just by pronouncing the word “terrorism,” then expect to be called a “terrorist” soon yourself.
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We're excited to announce that @SWAPHamilton was accepted into the @McMasterU's Community Engaged Research Days this month, March 27-28! 💕 @McMasterOCE @McMasteResearch #HamOnt
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The next Canadian Prime Minister should appoint Justin Trudeau as Ambassador to the United States.
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Sarah Jama's defeat sends a message to principled activists that theres limited spaces in electoral politics for us. Abandonment by the supposed "left" @OntarioNDP party hits the hardest. But politics don't end at elections. It's just the beginning. #onpoli
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McMaster course aims to fight the erasure of Black history in Latin America https://t.co/KnqWqsC3IW
@McMasterU @mcmasterhum @abldmcmaster @McMasterLAN
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As part of a class on Black Latin American and Caribbean history, a roundtable at McMaster University in Hamilton hears from Afro-Latinx scholars about race, culture, migration and diasporic identi...
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The #onpoli is over. Here on the Hamilton Mountain, residents voted for @VoteMonicaPC. Congratulations 👏🏿🎉 on your win and best wishes to you. #HamOnt #HamiltonMountain #HamOntMtn #OnElxn
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It's the final countdown 🗳️ Much 🧡 to everyone that has volunteered, donated, & voted for @KojoDampteyONDP Your dedication & participation is a testament to our will to care for one another & build a province where everyone can thrive abundantly. #HamOnt #onpoli #HamOntMtn
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Happy Election Day #HamiltonCentre! Shoutout to MP Matthew Green for dropping in with Grandad’s 💜💛 Thank you to our incredible volunteers who are spending the day pulling the vote. If you need a ride to your polling station, give us a shout! https://t.co/ix4Ur9kCJS
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Gooooood morning! It's a beautiful day to hit the doors with @KojoDampteyONDP, your Hamilton Mountain ONDP Candidate. We are just FIVE days from the election and you can still visit the advance polls and cast your vote for Kojo today! E-5 let's gooooo 🔥🔥 #hamont #onpoli #onelxn
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