Righting History Scholars Fellowship
We are providing $500 (per person) for individuals interested in researching and creating an educational resource for an anti-colonial education platform, called Righting History (RH). This platform is created by the climate justice organization, Shake Up The Establishment. These educational resources are meant to be tools for critical inquiry, collective healing, and political imagination, and will live on our website/be promoted across our platforms with full credit to their creators.
This year's theme is Lessons from Movements Before Ours: Sharing Stories Necessary for our Future.
We welcome educational resource proposals that explore:
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Lessons and tactics from movements for racial, gender, economic, and environmental justice
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Theories and modes of organizing informed by Indigenous sovereignty, abolitionist organizing, disability justice, queer/trans liberation
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Strategies to address polarization, disinformation, facism and propaganda
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Links between historical movements and today’s struggles for equity and systemic change
Educational Resource Format Options:
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Article (approx. 750 - 2500 words with in-text citations and references list)
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Zine (5-10 pages long, with 200-word artist statement and references list)
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Video (5-10 minutes long, with 200-word summary and references list)
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Podcast (15-30 mins long, with 50-100 word description and verbatim transcript with in-citations and/or references list)
Note, we ask applicants to share examples of past work in the format they choose within our application form, as we want to ensure you have the skills to execute this successfully and to minimize revisions needed for this to be publish-ready in the short timeframe.
Expectations and Timeline:
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Submit a proposal for the resource you want to create in one of the formats listed above via the application form by October 30, 2025
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Successful applicants will be short-listed to be contacted by November 5, 2025
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Work on completing your resource from November 5 - November 25, 2025
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We provide revisions, as needed, for you by December 5, 2025
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You finalize your resource for publishing by December 20, 2025
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We will publish the final resource on the Righting History website and promote it widely throughout our networks by January 31, 2026
Compensation: $500 per Scholar, maximum of 3 chosen total.
Eligibility
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Open to anyone in Canada
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We especially welcome Indigenous, racialized, immigrant, woman, gender-deverse and 2SLGBTQ+ facilitators as well as youth (18-35) with lived experiences to participate given our theme and focus
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Priority consideration for Toronto and Greater Toronto Area–based applicants due to our funding
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AI Policy
Using generative AI for this work is not permitted beyond light assistive tools for grammar/spellcheck. At our team's discretion, we may run submissions/work suspected of AI use through AI-detection services, and this may impact judging and selection at our discretion.
Contact
Questions? Email rh@shakeuptheestab.org (subject: RH Scholars 2025).
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