I wrote this piece at the invitation of Katarina Stenbeck to accompany an exhibit she curated in Copenhagen at the Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Slow Violence). I want to thank Katarina for reaching out to me to include my work in the show. —– In Métis legal-governance traditions, we draw on the nehiyaw (Cree) legal principle of… Read More
Grief
My sweet and gentle grandmother died two months ago. I got the call from my mom on the morning of April 7, just before I was about to meet some friends for lunch. I had a dream early on in the morning of the 7th, a dream that had strongly informed me she had passed.… Read More
Encyclopedia of exhaustion: the D-DIC
Welcome to this encyclopedia of exhaustion! It is a new series wherein we will cover clusters of behaviour and ideology in anti-colonial/decolonial spaces which exhaust communities striving to dismantle structural violence. Our inaugural post is on that especially fun complex: the D-DIC! What is the D-DIC? It’s a shorthand for the Decolonial Dudebro Industrial Complex.… Read More
allow yourself
What I wish (for you) is to disentangle their hooks from my flesh. Finally let go, let it fall, let it soar. You are not their past. You were and are a jumble of bones and stories moving through time and space, and as you walk down the cobblestone streets, I want you to pause,… Read More