In spring 2010, a group of Ryerson University students made a short documentary, Shadeism, for a class project. Within weeks of sharing online, it received thousands of views and hundreds of responses.

The film discusses shadeism -- discrimination based on skin tone within a given community. Bringing together diasporic women from Toronto's South Asian, African, Caribbean and South American communities, it provides insight into a discrimination that exists throughout the world but goes largely unreported. Now, director Nayani Thiyagarajah and her colleagues are in post-production for a feature length documentary, Shadeism: Digging Deeper, intended for release in 2015.

In a society that likes to proclaim equality, especially between different races, combatting white privilege is still a really valuable outlet for your activist energy. If you’re looking for a campaign to support, try the UnFair campaign. With the tag line “it’s hard to see racism when you’re white,” you can be sure the campaign will focus on unearthing uncomfortable realities. It’s a poster that can actually get through to your “racism is a thing of the past!” friends, or help your mom understand some of her long-held discriminatory behaviour.