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Author: âpihtawikosisân
Inclusion in crisis: a discussion
tânisi nitôtêmitik! I know I don’t post here all that much anymore, but since I’m trying to wean myself off social media to make space for more work offline, I may start up again. Canada is the guest of honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair this year, and into 2021, and due to COVID has…
Defund the Police: EDMONTON
EDIT: An even more functional tool has been developed by Black Lives Matter YEG. You can fill out their form and put in your postal code, and the letter will be mailed to the mayor AND your ward’s city councillor, please pass this along! https://www.blmyeg.com/news/defund-eps-letter-template tânisi nitôtêmitik, The following is a template letter developed by…
A Lodge Within Her Mind
Bored? Feeling a bit down? My new Métis futurist short story is available at the Center for the Arts in Society at Carnegie Mellon University as part of their social distancing “Decolonized Futures” series: https://mailchi.mp/6385dadee6d7/spring-2776457?e=df600323a1 Here’s the link to the full story: https://www.cmu.edu/cas/events/social-distancing/vowel-lodge-within-her-mind.html
Settling on a Name: Names for non-Indigenous Canadians
(This is the [slightly modified] second chapter of Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit Issues In Canada. With blessings from my publisher, Portage & Main Press, I have chosen to republish it here in full, because I am finding myself being drawn into debates around the term “settler”, and I think…