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Widdowson on Wokism and the failure of university tenure to protect

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Dr. Frances Widdowson was finally fired from her job as a tenured professor despite challenging prevailing narratives with a series of books including Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry: The deception behind indigenous cultural preservation; Native studies and Canadian political science: The implications of ‘decolonizing the discipline’; and Running the gauntlet: Challenging the taboo obstructing aboriginal education policy development. She was finally fired after defending CBC reporter Wendy Mesley, and after asking why purported graves at a former Indian Residential School had not yet been verified. In this interview Dr. Widdowson talks about the “aboriginal industry” and its underpinning in the concept of Wokism.

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  • Lloyd Robertson

    Lloyd Hawkeye Robertson is an Adjunct Professor of Psychology at the University of Regina. His main professional interest has been on the evolution and structure of the self.   He has also published on the psychological impacts of Indian residential schools, the use of a community development process to combat youth suicide, the construction of the (North American) aboriginal self, the concept of free will in psychotherapy, and male stigma as it affects men’s identity.  He is currently President of the New Enlightenment Project: A Canadian Humanist Initiative.

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