So, today I offer to you affecting films about community, homelessness, working together. This film, “Give Me Solace”, is by my cousin, Savanna Todd. She made the film as part of the ‘Housing Matters Media Project in BC’s Lower Mainland (on unceded Coast Salish Territory). This second film, ‘they want no people between them and… Read More

Here is a really relevant section of the TRC Report for us to watch this week. Thank you, Coty, for participating in the #ReadTheTRCReport project. And thank you to the overwhelming support we have received from people across the country to help make this report accessible in different formats.

I have worked hard over the last few years to really engage critically but from a place of love with this city. I moved away to pursue a PhD because, well, you cannot do all your degrees in the same place and be taken seriously in the academy. Or so they say. In either case,… Read More

This morning I had the great pleasure of speaking about our #ReadTheTRCReport on CKCU (Ottawa)’s Friday Special Blend with Bob LeDrew and Susan Johnston. The interview starts at the 43:30 mark. http://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/player.raw.html?id=22574&token=l%3C%3F9Y%7CO%25%3F%3A%26E%60a%2F9%5E%5B%5C%25%7D~_%22%7D%3Aw%5ElLll-t.acoUpexHFOI4a%25%7C

(and one last one, for good measure) (oh, what the heck: a few more)

UPDATE (11 June): WE HAVE FILLED ALL SPOTS FOR THE REPORT READING PROJECT BUT ARE STILL INVITING INDIGENOUS PARTICIPANTS TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE RECOMMENDATION READING PROJECT. (contact us if you would like to participate) Update (12 August): Some spots have opened up again, so please contact us if you can read something and have it… Read More

Edit, May 25, 2016: as the first anniversary of this post creeps up, I’ve added ‘white’ to the title so that it’s clear that this is about critiquing white supremacy in the Edmonton (indeed–Canadian and international) art scene. And critiquing those who benefit from it, uphold it, and violently suppress those trying to dismantle it.… Read More

I am a white passing Métis woman. I look white. You probably read my body and my speech as white. I have been working in middle class contexts for so long that I can pass through your conferences and halls with ease. I look like I belong. I can pretend I care about your stories from… Read More

My old body was holding space it was the shadow the foreshadow as rain gathers pace rolling down mountains and hillsides so too does the spirit of a woman ready to shed her fears and traumas like the raucous shout of a crow I am loud and fat and strong and bounce off of mountainsides… Read More