This session will explore how injustice and inequality are shaped through social, political, spatial, and environmental processes in both local and global contexts. Presenters will examine systemic marginalization, from water inequities in Brazil to long COVID disparities in Canada, and explore the impacts of territorial stigma, racial identity, and sociopolitical environments on health and wellbeing. Together, these studies will offer new insights into how geography can inform critical discussions of equity, resilience, and justice.

• 1:00 PM
  A Political Ecology of Wellbeing: Contextual understandings of “wellbeing” in a case study of water inequities in Rio de Janeiro
  Rodrigo Curty Pereira, University of Waterloo

• 1:15 PM
  Black youth identity and belonging in Southwestern Ontario
  Zakara Stampp, Western University

• 1:30 PM
  Territorial stigma and mental health outcomes among Black youth in the Greater Toronto Area
  Eyram Agbe, Carleton University

• 1:45 PM
  “It brings economic pain, emotional stress, and havoc in the household”: The lived experiences of long-COVID management among racialized immigrants and racialized non-immigrants in Ontario’s Peel Region
  Andrea Rishworth, University of Toronto Mississauga

• 2:00 PM
  Progressive politics’ impact on sexual minority suicidality and substance use: a Retrospective Study Using Linked Administrative Data in Ontario
  Antony Chum, York University