Stories from Palestine, Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee lands, and the Afro-Carribean disaspora In his book Why Indigenous Literatures Matter, which is a kind of guidepost for this entire project, Daniel Heath Justice writes about how our stories help us learn how to be human, how to be good people, good relatives,...
graphic novels, sequential art, it's all just comic books to me. I don't read nearly enough fiction. And what fiction I do read is rarely graphic in nature. I mean I used to read comic books. I grew up on Archie and Veronica, as an adult I read The Maxx...
Remarks from International Women's Day event, given March 7 2021 to the Peel Labour Council. One day Nanabush was walking along the shoreline. He was hungry. And he was lazy. So he looked for a way to get food without working too hard. He saw some ducks. He liked roasted...
January newsletter Foundations, Why Indigenous Literatures Matter by Daniel Heath Justice After the Civil War the United States had a decision to make about who they would be. This happens regularly in nations, they form and reform their collective identity and the afternath of the Civil War was one such...
https://soundcloud.com/patty-wbk/1492-landback-lane-and-the-colonial-playbook-with-dr-robyn-bourgeois You’re listening to Medicine for the Resistance. This episode was recorded on Thursday, October 22 which is the day that an important court decision was brought down regarding 1492 Landback Lane. We start with an update from Karl Dockstader of One Dish One Mic, a journalist who is on...
https://soundcloud.com/patty-wbk/learning-and-burning You're listening to Medicine for the Resistance Patty: So Joy, how are you doing? How are you because we are here in the midst of COVID, you've got kids, and you talked a little bit about the challenges of that. And you've also talked about the racial aspect of...
https://soundcloud.com/patty-wbk/the-racist-history-of-agriculture-with-dr-sarah-taber You’re listening to medicine for the resistance. Kerry Sarah, tell us about what you do because it's such an incredibly unique space. I think it's so important that you let you know the world know, or at least our audience know, what it exactly is that you do. Patty: ...
These are my remarks to the special Regional Council meeting on policing in the Niagara Region on July 23, 2020. You can view the entire meeting here. You can listen to my conversation with Matt Holmes of iHeart radio at 610 CKTB This article from the St. Catharines Standard mentions...
https://soundcloud.com/patty-wbk/possibilities-with-robyn-maynard Patty: So we're here with Robyn Maynard, who wrote the book Policing Black lives. And this is a really neat follow up to our last week's conversation with Desmond Cole and it's also just really timely with everything that's happening and all the conversations that are going on. Robyn: ...
https://soundcloud.com/patty-wbk/going-home-with-angela-gray Kerry: It's an interesting space here in Niagara as we are creating because there are a lot of biracial children here. So what we're finding and it's been my travels as well, that I've got a lot of parents who are white, who have Black children don't understand, but...
