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Last episode, I mentioned that in London, Ontario, in 2019 a 9-year-old named Lyla Wheeler had launched a petition to rename her street, currently called Plantation Road. This episode, Lyla, now aged nearly thirteen, and her mom Kristin Daley recount the reasons why Lyla campaigned for this name change, how the neighbours reacted, what happened when the wider world heard about it, and why the street\'s name is still Plantation Road.
\\nI hope you will not be deterred from campaigning for different, better words.
\\nContent note: the episode contains references to enslavement of Black people and a brief description of the Canadian residential school system.
\\nThis is an instalment of the Telling Other Stories series, about renaming.\\xa0Find out more about this episode and get extra information about the topics therein at theallusionist.org/supplantation, where there\'s also a transcript.
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