An "Uppity" Memoir and Some "Cheeky" Tips: On What it is Like For Me to be a Woman of Colour at a University Whose Structure is Still Predominantly White and Eurocentric in its Focus

Michelle La Flamme is a doctoral student at the University of British Columbia in the Department of English. She has been involved in the women's community in Vancouver for over a decade as an activist and performer. For the last three years she has been teaching in Vancouverââ¬â¢s Downtown Eastside for the Women's Humanities Year which brings humanities education to women who face multiple barriers to achieving an education. She has taught in Germany and the Netherlands in the areas of race theory, literature and film and these elements are also at the core of doctoral thesis. Her work has been published by UBC Press, Sister Vision Press, West Coast Line, and Kola, and recently appears in RedWire, Canadian Literature, and thirdspace.