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My City is a Bigot
I am a white passing Métis woman. I look white. You probably read my body and my speech as white. I have been working in middle class contexts for so long that I can pass through your conferences and halls with ease. I look like I belong. I can pretend I care about your stories from … Conti...
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I am a white passing Métis woman. I look white. You probably read my body and my speech as white. I have been working in middle class contexts for so long that I can pass through your conferences and halls with ease. I look like I belong. I can pretend I care about your stories from … Conti...
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my old body
My old body was holding space it was the shadow the foreshadow as rain gathers pace rolling down mountains and hillsides so too does the spirit of a woman ready to shed her fears and traumas like the raucous shout of a crow I am loud and fat and strong and bounce off of mountainsides … Cont...
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My old body was holding space it was the shadow the foreshadow as rain gathers pace rolling down mountains and hillsides so too does the spirit of a woman ready to shed her fears and traumas like the raucous shout of a crow I am loud and fat and strong and bounce off of mountainsides … Cont...
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open letter to the arts community: doing art in a respectful, accountable, reciprocal way
An amended letter I sent out to an organization being established that wants to address Indigenous arts in my hometown. Identifying information removed so that the letter can speak to broader issues of how Indigenous art in Canada is still being assessed according to eurocentric metrics that shap...
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An amended letter I sent out to an organization being established that wants to address Indigenous arts in my hometown. Identifying information removed so that the letter can speak to broader issues of how Indigenous art in Canada is still being assessed according to eurocentric metrics that shap...
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guest blogging
I have been invited to be a guest blogger for the anthropology blog Savage Minds for the month of May. I will be interviewing Indigenous/POC scholars to discuss what it is like to work within our respective disciplines, and will query the convergences and divergences between Indigenous thinking/s...
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I have been invited to be a guest blogger for the anthropology blog Savage Minds for the month of May. I will be interviewing Indigenous/POC scholars to discuss what it is like to work within our respective disciplines, and will query the convergences and divergences between Indigenous thinking/s...
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white knuckles
you know, I know edmonton, partially, through my Métis family. I know it through the way it marginalized and marginalizes Indigenous bodies. I know it through the cracks in its veneer, through the ugliness of how police treated and treat Indigenous men and women. I know it through the roughness a...
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you know, I know edmonton, partially, through my Métis family. I know it through the way it marginalized and marginalizes Indigenous bodies. I know it through the cracks in its veneer, through the ugliness of how police treated and treat Indigenous men and women. I know it through the roughness a...
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‘Decolonial Dreams: Unsettling the Academy Through Namewak’, a forthcoming essay in ‘The New [New] Corpse’
In November, editor Caroline Picard at Green Lantern Press in Chicago invited me to contribute an essay to her forthcoming volume The New [New] Corpse, which is being published in conjunction with an exhibit of the same name that was shown at Sector 2337 Gallery in Chicago in the autumn of 2014. ...
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In November, editor Caroline Picard at Green Lantern Press in Chicago invited me to contribute an essay to her forthcoming volume The New [New] Corpse, which is being published in conjunction with an exhibit of the same name that was shown at Sector 2337 Gallery in Chicago in the autumn of 2014. ...
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YOU SHOULD BE READING THESE PIECES
I like the idea of ‘follow friday’, borrowed here from the Twitter realm. Today I want to direct you to some of the influential pieces and thinkers I have been steered towards since I wrote my Ontology blog post back in October. These women are all writing critically about posthumanis...
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I like the idea of ‘follow friday’, borrowed here from the Twitter realm. Today I want to direct you to some of the influential pieces and thinkers I have been steered towards since I wrote my Ontology blog post back in October. These women are all writing critically about posthumanis...
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Spin 2.0
Last year my sister took a time-lapse of me spinning at Spanish Banks. https://zoeandthecity.wordpress.com/2014/06/18/spin-baby-spin/ Today she took one of me spinning out here in the lower mainland, on unceded Katzie First Nation land. Sometimes a girl just wants to spin in the sunshine.
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Last year my sister took a time-lapse of me spinning at Spanish Banks. https://zoeandthecity.wordpress.com/2014/06/18/spin-baby-spin/ Today she took one of me spinning out here in the lower mainland, on unceded Katzie First Nation land. Sometimes a girl just wants to spin in the sunshine.
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the city beyond your gaze
I am taking a break from Twitter to focus on my writing and other projects. However, before I leave the platform completely, let me share one of my last Twitter essays.
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I am taking a break from Twitter to focus on my writing and other projects. However, before I leave the platform completely, let me share one of my last Twitter essays.
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news
Thank you so much for all the notes and conversations that you have shared with me throughout the winter and into the spring. I am so delighted to have met so many anthropologists and scholars and activists through my little blog. I have some exciting news: beginning 01 July I will be takin...
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Thank you so much for all the notes and conversations that you have shared with me throughout the winter and into the spring. I am so delighted to have met so many anthropologists and scholars and activists through my little blog. I have some exciting news: beginning 01 July I will be takin...
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While I stand here on this Earth
Some days, the only way you can respond to the comedy of errors is through poetry:
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Some days, the only way you can respond to the comedy of errors is through poetry:
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Re-imagining anthropology as if Indigenous people practice it (FYI: we do!)
Anthropology needs Indigenous people, but Indigenous people do not need Anthropology. There is no reciprocity in that equation. I think we need to start at this very point in order to re-imagine the discipline. Not through ethnography. Not through open-access publishing (though these are importan...
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Anthropology needs Indigenous people, but Indigenous people do not need Anthropology. There is no reciprocity in that equation. I think we need to start at this very point in order to re-imagine the discipline. Not through ethnography. Not through open-access publishing (though these are importan...
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Fish as witness: human-fish relations in the context of colonial dispossession
Last week I had the great pleasure of presenting a paper on fish, people, colonialism and trickster-fish at the World of Matter symposium held at Concordia University, in Montreal, Canada. The symposium was titled: “World of Matter: Extractive Ecologies and Unceded Terrains“. The symp...
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Last week I had the great pleasure of presenting a paper on fish, people, colonialism and trickster-fish at the World of Matter symposium held at Concordia University, in Montreal, Canada. The symposium was titled: “World of Matter: Extractive Ecologies and Unceded Terrains“. The symp...
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Racism in Canada: Mainstream Media edition
This is a short post because I am on such a stringent dissertation deadline. BUT. I am so outraged by the difference between how Canadian media is portraying two recent, tragic fires that killed children on the prairies that I am posting my twitter essay about it here. The first fire, on Makwa Sa...
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This is a short post because I am on such a stringent dissertation deadline. BUT. I am so outraged by the difference between how Canadian media is portraying two recent, tragic fires that killed children on the prairies that I am posting my twitter essay about it here. The first fire, on Makwa Sa...
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sorrow be gone
TW: discusses gendered violence, sexual assault, physical assault Conversations with dear friends. Vulnerable spaces to open up to things we cannot allow to roam in our academic Gladiator rings. A space to feel with the heart, body, mind and spirit. Space to say what cannot be said with the stilt...
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TW: discusses gendered violence, sexual assault, physical assault Conversations with dear friends. Vulnerable spaces to open up to things we cannot allow to roam in our academic Gladiator rings. A space to feel with the heart, body, mind and spirit. Space to say what cannot be said with the stilt...
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