I’ve been working on this project for the last few months. As I move through England and Scotland, I can’t help but feel that I carry with me all the generations of my very diverse family with me. And I feel, very strongly, that in some ways I’m here to ‘speak back to Empire’, or… Read More
‘Revitalization’ as colonialism
You know what? I have a bone to pick. Revitalization. Regeneration. Gentrification. These are rather mild and innocuous terms for what is, really, just a palatable way to express extant colonialism and oppression in a country built on the exploitation and theft of Indigenous lands. My family, on my Dad’s side, has been continuously pushed… Read More
Courtney Chetwynd — Splitting the Difference
My friend Courtney has a show up at the Yellowknife Artist Run Community Centre, running until December 23. You can listen to her discuss the show here — the work references northern landscapes, fracking, Indigenous cosmologies. Basically, it’s amazing. If you’re going to be in Yellowknife between now and December 23, I urge you to… Read More
