“I believe we will win.”
Sandy Hudson
Sandy is an activist, public intellectual and creative with a talent for inspiring others to imagine just futures. Unapologetically committed to refreshingly honest public discourse, she is also a compelling educator.
Hope and a commitment to possibility keep her in the fight for a better world.
Projects
Sandy & Nora Talk Politics
Sandy co-hosts one of Canada’s most popular political podcasts alongside close friend and author Nora Loreto. Through weekly, unscripted discussions, Sandy and Nora use wit and humour to make radical political thought accessible.
Defund the Police
Through her work with Black Lives Matter, Sandy is leading a campaign to encourage others to rethink how we provide safety and security services in society. We can provide safety and security without anti-Black, anti-Indigenous militarized forces.
Wildseed Centre
A brick-and-mortar space, the Wildseed Centre for Art & Activism is a vessel that seeks to nurture Black creation in Canada. Canada lacks sustainable Black-owned spaces that support activism, art, education and generative capacity. Black space matters.
Black Lives Matter - Canada
Sandy is co-founder of Black Lives Matter - Canada. BLM is resolutely committed to the abolitionist struggle for Black liberation.
Black Legal Action Centre
Sandy co-founded the Black Legal Action Centre, a non-profit legal aid clinic delivering free legal services to low- and no-income Black Ontarians.
Books
Until We Are Free
Sandy is co-editor and contributor to this 2020 bestselling anthology. Until We Are Free: Reflections on Black Lives Matter in Canada is a volume that describes the latest developments in Canadian Black activism, organizing efforts through the use of social media, Black-Indigenous alliances, and more.
Race & Racialization
Edited by Drs. Tania Das Gupta, Grace Edward Galabuzi, Carl James, Roger Maaka and Chris Andersen, Sandy contributed the final chapter to this seminal academic textbook on race, racism, and racialization, published in 2020.
New Framings on Anti-Racism & Resistance
Focusing on futurist approaches to anti-racism, Sandy contributed the opening chapter to this academic philosophical anthology. Published in 2017.
Selected Writing
Washington Post
The nefarious political agenda behind Ontario’s war on university fees.
-2019-
The Kit.
These Podcasts Will Expand Your Understanding of Racism.
-2020-
Toronto Star
How Ontario can really end carding.
-2015-
FLARE
Women of Colour Have Been Warning Us About MRAs for Years.
-2018-
Maclean’s
We must defund the police. It is the only option.
-2020-
Chatelaine
What Would It Mean To Defund The Police?
-2020-
Huffington Post
Defunding The Police Will Save Black And Indigenous Lives In Canada.
-2020-
Now Magazine
Black Futures Month: Torontonians imagine a city without Anti-Blackness
-2018-
Selected Press
Newsweek
Sandy Hudson, the founder of BLM Canada told Newsweek…“you see the impact of that history today in the way that police continue to view and treat Black and Indigenous people as people to be patrolled, to be surveilled.”
Toronto Life
“Janaya Khan and Sandy Hudson spearheaded a radical new civil rights movement that shines a harsh light on anti-black racism. The brains behind Black Lives Matter Toronto”
New York Times
“People in the U.S. might be surprised, or not, to learn that racism doesn’t respect the imagined line of the 49th parallel,” said Sandy Hudson, 30, a graduate student at the University of Toronto and a founder of the chapter.”
Complex
Black Lives Matter Toronto’s Sandy Hudson on Canada’s Very Real Systemic Racism
Refinery29
The 29 Game-Changers Who Got Us Through 2020.
CBC News
Anti-[B]lack racism protests reignite calls to defund police
Quill & Quire
Bestsellers: BLM essay collection Until We Are Free resonates amidst civil-rights revolution.
In Action
