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ships passing
Contending with death. It creeps up. The finality I expected is not final at all. We see you in the mall, shopping for Christmas gifts. Standing in line with us for coffee. When I curl up in the quilt you made, I forget that you passed away beneath one just like it, only a few … Continue re...
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Contending with death. It creeps up. The finality I expected is not final at all. We see you in the mall, shopping for Christmas gifts. Standing in line with us for coffee. When I curl up in the quilt you made, I forget that you passed away beneath one just like it, only a few … Continue re...
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John A MacDonald: Son of Glasgow, Father of Genocide – a Métis woman’s reflection
Originally posted on A Thousand Flowers:Glasgow City Chambers flew the Canadian flag over the weekend Guest Post by @ZoeSTodd Yesterday, Canada and Scotland both rejoiced at the 200th birthday of John A. MacDonald (I refuse to apply the honorific ‘Sir’). A jaunty conference on his legacy, funded ...
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Originally posted on A Thousand Flowers:Glasgow City Chambers flew the Canadian flag over the weekend Guest Post by @ZoeSTodd Yesterday, Canada and Scotland both rejoiced at the 200th birthday of John A. MacDonald (I refuse to apply the honorific ‘Sir’). A jaunty conference on his legacy, funded ...
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New year: more scholars to check out
I could probably post Indigenous scholars for you to check out every week, and still not have time to cover all the amazing, ground-breaking work that Indigenous thinkers are producing inside and outside the academy. I’ll keep trying. I’m going to try to post three scholars a week, wh...
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I could probably post Indigenous scholars for you to check out every week, and still not have time to cover all the amazing, ground-breaking work that Indigenous thinkers are producing inside and outside the academy. I’ll keep trying. I’m going to try to post three scholars a week, wh...
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A film to watch on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and some organizations to support
I have been back home since November 13. In that time, more Indigenous women have been murdered in Canada. I am staying in the lower mainland in British Columbia. I am directly confronted with the physical reality of horrific nightmares like Robert Pickton’s years of murdering Indigenous wo...
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I have been back home since November 13. In that time, more Indigenous women have been murdered in Canada. I am staying in the lower mainland in British Columbia. I am directly confronted with the physical reality of horrific nightmares like Robert Pickton’s years of murdering Indigenous wo...
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Untitled
Nothing much to say, other than I came home two weeks ago to be with family because my step-mom’s cancer progressed quite aggressively. In October, she opted to terminate treatment. I am ever grateful to her doctors for respecting her self-determination to choose that. So, I made the choice...
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Nothing much to say, other than I came home two weeks ago to be with family because my step-mom’s cancer progressed quite aggressively. In October, she opted to terminate treatment. I am ever grateful to her doctors for respecting her self-determination to choose that. So, I made the choice...
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Indigenous Thinkers to check out
I want to keep aggregating links to work by Indigenous scholars, elders, activists and teachers. When I find the time in my busy dissertation schedule I will post them here. As a Métis person from Alberta, Canada, my knowledge is skewed towards North American Indigenous thinkers, however I welcom...
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I want to keep aggregating links to work by Indigenous scholars, elders, activists and teachers. When I find the time in my busy dissertation schedule I will post them here. As a Métis person from Alberta, Canada, my knowledge is skewed towards North American Indigenous thinkers, however I welcom...
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An Indigenous Feminist’s take on the Ontological Turn: ‘ontology’ is just another word for colonialism
Personal paradigm shifts have a way of sneaking up on you. It started, innocently enough, with a trip to Edinburgh to see the great Latour discuss his latest work in February 2013. I was giddy with excitement: a talk by the Great Latour. Live and in colour! In his talk, on that February night, he...
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Personal paradigm shifts have a way of sneaking up on you. It started, innocently enough, with a trip to Edinburgh to see the great Latour discuss his latest work in February 2013. I was giddy with excitement: a talk by the Great Latour. Live and in colour! In his talk, on that February night, he...
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Cities are our camps: relationship, reciprocity, and urban land-based pedagogy — post-review redux
Cities are our camps: relationship, reciprocity, and urban land-based pedagogy Zoe S. Todd and Daniel Morley Johnson Amiskwacî, nestled in the bend in the North Saskatchewan River, which was home to multicultural bands from Indigenous nations for thousands of years, is today known by its settler-...
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Cities are our camps: relationship, reciprocity, and urban land-based pedagogy Zoe S. Todd and Daniel Morley Johnson Amiskwacî, nestled in the bend in the North Saskatchewan River, which was home to multicultural bands from Indigenous nations for thousands of years, is today known by its settler-...
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Creating Citizen Spaces through Indigenous Soundscapes
Here is a piece that Spacing Magazine published last week on their website. http://spacing.ca/national/2014/10/01/creating-citizen-spaces-indigenous-soundscapes/
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Here is a piece that Spacing Magazine published last week on their website. http://spacing.ca/national/2014/10/01/creating-citizen-spaces-indigenous-soundscapes/
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So what does a fat girl eat? Click here for a photo that will blow your mind!
Things that annoy me: assumptions people make about your diet and health when you are not thin. Do we assume all thin people eat well, have good cholesterol, their sugar is well-regulated and they have no markers for chronic illness? Of course we do. We’ve been trained to assume thin=health...
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Things that annoy me: assumptions people make about your diet and health when you are not thin. Do we assume all thin people eat well, have good cholesterol, their sugar is well-regulated and they have no markers for chronic illness? Of course we do. We’ve been trained to assume thin=health...
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So if we’re Scotland’s ‘cousins’, what of that pesky issue of colonialism? A Métis response to the Globe and Mail
On the weekend the Globe and Mail ran this piece on Scottish independence, exhorting our ‘Scottish cousins’ to heed the so-called lessons of Quebec and stay in the glorious, benevolent Union. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/editorials/an-open-letter-to-scotland/article2057...
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On the weekend the Globe and Mail ran this piece on Scottish independence, exhorting our ‘Scottish cousins’ to heed the so-called lessons of Quebec and stay in the glorious, benevolent Union. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/editorials/an-open-letter-to-scotland/article2057...
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There’s this funny thing your brain does to cope when you’ve had your heart broken or faced a sharp trauma–it tries to protect you from being hurt again. And in so doing, it breaks your rootedness, the feelings you had that are woven into the fabric of towns and cities. It’...
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PhD Self-Care: food
There was a time when I was just so exhausted from the PhD process that I couldn’t bring myself to cook. It doesn’t get discussed a lot, but the pressure of living abroad and doing a PhD can be overwhelming at times. For me that meant whatever joy I once found in cooking was quickly &...
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There was a time when I was just so exhausted from the PhD process that I couldn’t bring myself to cook. It doesn’t get discussed a lot, but the pressure of living abroad and doing a PhD can be overwhelming at times. For me that meant whatever joy I once found in cooking was quickly &...
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Indyref
Scotland votes in its Independence referendum on 18 September. I’m rooting for a yes vote, but having watched the Quebec referendums as a kid, I know it’s likely to be a close vote.
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Scotland votes in its Independence referendum on 18 September. I’m rooting for a yes vote, but having watched the Quebec referendums as a kid, I know it’s likely to be a close vote.
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you are loved you are love you are love [the journey is rough]
Walking down the street, she could feel the sunlight creeping through the damp elm leaves, cascading onto her face as she walked from shadow to shadow. The feel of last night’s rain rising up to meet hot prairie sun. The grinding sound of baby stroller wheels meeting gritty sidewalk came up...
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Walking down the street, she could feel the sunlight creeping through the damp elm leaves, cascading onto her face as she walked from shadow to shadow. The feel of last night’s rain rising up to meet hot prairie sun. The grinding sound of baby stroller wheels meeting gritty sidewalk came up...
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