I started writing this at 5:30 a.m. because as usual I couldn’t sleep. This is going to be a nerdy language post, so feel free to disregard if you aren’t obsessed with nêhiyawêwin (Plains Cree)! If you are a fellow nêhiyawêwin nerd, please leave all the comments and thoughts you have! nêhiyawêwin, like most Indigenous…
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Mitigating Exposure to Wildfire Smoke: What I’ve Learned So Far
Folks, we need to talk. I’m shut up in the house again, windows tightly closed, air-filters running, because the outside air quality is absolutely terrible. It’s “wildfire season”. Meanwhile, a neighbour is burning leaves in their back yard, apparently oblivious to the smouldering garbage smell already permeating the block. With all the recent concerns about…
Names and the White Possessive: Information for Creatives
In her 2015 work, The White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty, Aileen Moreton-Robinson (Goenpul from Minjerribah, Quandamooka FN) explores the way in which white nation-states (Australia, Canada, the United States, New Zealand) use racial logics to disrupt Indigenous territorial sovereignty explicitly through structures of colonial territorial possession. “The white possessive” is not simply the…
Springing into action
I am excited to announce that due to me getting serious about having a year of “saying no,” my schedule is finally starting to clear up. I’ve gone from doing an average of forty events a year to having just a handful in 2022. So what does this mean for my Patreon? Well, most importantly,…