I encountered Richard Wagamese ba shortly after I found my father, which was in my late 20s. My mother had moved us down south after they separated and I was raised with my maternal family, Ukranians who had come to Canada as refugees. They loved me, but I was the...
How did it become May already? Refusing Patriarchy. The theme for this month went through several iterations, originally I was thinking about Mother's Day and the various ways that we mother that go far beyond a binary that is so comforting to some and so alienating for others. Then I...
What are the conditions our communities need to see the Milky Way? This is the question that Chanda Prescod-Weinstein poses near the end of her book The Disordered Cosmos. I hadn't meant to include a book on astro/physics when I created April's topics, and indeed when I first thought of...
Discussing Memoir with Kaitlin Curtice, Joy Henderson, Demita Frazier, Jenessa Galenkamp, and Ernestine Hayes Last month we talked about history and what stood out to me is the gaps. The gaps in Black history where Indigenous peoples should be and the gaps in Native Studies where Black people should be. ...
stop writing about Indiansshe told me againonly louder as ifI was hard of hearingyou have to allow authorstheir subjects, she saidstop writing aboutwhat isn’ t in the text which is just our entire history excerpt from graduate school first semester: so here I am writing about Indians again, Cheryl Savageau...
