In summer the berries ripen Deep purple We drive and drive and drive In the melt-through-glass heat Legs stuck to vinyl seats The stale smell of cigarettes and dirt And years on the highway Through parts of town where houses have windows Smashed in by bats Not balls We move furniture for women Kicked out… Read More

City planners and politicians seem to dream about being able to build things from scratch, to have everything about where, why, how, when and with what a city is built within their control. By and large, this isn’t possible, but every so often you encounter a place where that is precisely what happened within living… Read More

One of my heroes, Madeleine Redfern, posted this video on Twitter this morning. Watching it brought a whole lot of emotions to the surface for me. It speaks so eloquently and powerfully to issues that I have struggled with as a Metis woman in Academia. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDWlMX2ToSc&feature=youtu.be As I conduct fieldwork, these issues have become even… Read More