This month we give some background to Québec’s most recent piece of Islamophobic legislation, Bill 62, and hear about different facets of state-backed racism, from Islamophobia to anti-blackness. Featuring:

-- "Open for me my heart" poem by Farha Najah at the January vigil for the anti-Muslims murders of Azzeddine Soufiane, Khaled Belkacemi, Aboubaker Thabti, Abdelkrim Hassane, Mamadou Tanou and Ibrahima Barry, in Ste Foy, Québec

-- speech by Fatima Ahmad, a niqabi woman and second year student in Education at McGill, on Bill 62

-- historian and sociologist Houda Asal, author of Se Dire Arab au Canada, on the history of Islamophobia, from the TREYF Podcast "What the hell is going on in Québec"

-- Mubeenah Mughal, mother of three and former organizer with Accommodate This!, on Islamophobia from the era of the Bouchard Taylor Commission

-- Robyn Maynard on the state's perpetuation of anti-black racism in the launch of her new book, “Policing Black Lives"

-- songs by Shadia Mansour and Yuna