In this piece, Corinna Fitzgerald – Assistant Dean (Student Life and Learning) at Queen’s University, reflects on what it means to be an accomplice, instead of an ally to a cause.

The Human Rights and Equity Office has chosen to adopt I-EDIAA in response to the expressed needs of equity deserving communities at Queen’s.  The first “I”, for “Indigenization”, is separated from EDIAA with a hyphen to foreground responsibilities to honour obligations to Indigenous communities which are separate and distinct from equity and inclusion efforts.