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Last week my beloved laptop met its demise. In spectacular fashion. The repair bill would be £1400 (about $2500 CAD), which is way beyond my means. I accomplish a lot with my little laptop — I blog, I edit and create film shorts, I record and edit music, I edit and create cartoons about loc...
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Last week my beloved laptop met its demise. In spectacular fashion. The repair bill would be £1400 (about $2500 CAD), which is way beyond my means. I accomplish a lot with my little laptop — I blog, I edit and create film shorts, I record and edit music, I edit and create cartoons about loc...
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millennial blues
As far as I know, nobody has examined the prevalent, cynical ‘oh my god Millennials are so entitled’ discourse with the anti-patriarchal, intersectional writing of non-white scholars and activists (or a, say, a class-based analysis of which millennials harbour delusions of grandeur). ...
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As far as I know, nobody has examined the prevalent, cynical ‘oh my god Millennials are so entitled’ discourse with the anti-patriarchal, intersectional writing of non-white scholars and activists (or a, say, a class-based analysis of which millennials harbour delusions of grandeur). ...
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(nomadic hearts)
Sometimes when I’m struggling with my writing/dissertation I try to change tacks and get other parts of my brain to work to shake cobwebs out. So while I write chapters this summer, I’ve also wound up with a bunch of impromptu songs. Here is one I wrote last month during a writing break.
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Sometimes when I’m struggling with my writing/dissertation I try to change tacks and get other parts of my brain to work to shake cobwebs out. So while I write chapters this summer, I’ve also wound up with a bunch of impromptu songs. Here is one I wrote last month during a writing break.
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What do you eat when you are in remission from an eating disorder?
The answer: food. I’ve tried ever restrictive diet out there: vegetarian, vegan, paleo, ‘whole foods 30′, gluten-free, dairy-free, sugar-free, low-carb. You know what they all had in common? They were love-free. Now I eat food. I eat things that strike my fancy. Some days I drin...
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The answer: food. I’ve tried ever restrictive diet out there: vegetarian, vegan, paleo, ‘whole foods 30′, gluten-free, dairy-free, sugar-free, low-carb. You know what they all had in common? They were love-free. Now I eat food. I eat things that strike my fancy. Some days I drin...
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The conditions of love
When you’re a tough woman (or man) it’s important not to let the inability of men (or women or whoever you desire!) to keep up with you start to erode your faith in love or humanity. The Universe is just making sure you meet your equal – and for women on the edge of new … ...
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When you’re a tough woman (or man) it’s important not to let the inability of men (or women or whoever you desire!) to keep up with you start to erode your faith in love or humanity. The Universe is just making sure you meet your equal – and for women on the edge of new … ...
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Imperfection
I wrote this song last fall. I know the pronunciation isn’t perfect. But that is what happens when you are trying to teach yourself nehiyawewin while living so far away from home — relying on iPhone apps, my Auntie’s Cree language children show and anything else you can get your...
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I wrote this song last fall. I know the pronunciation isn’t perfect. But that is what happens when you are trying to teach yourself nehiyawewin while living so far away from home — relying on iPhone apps, my Auntie’s Cree language children show and anything else you can get your...
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Body Positivity
Through the work of Gwyneth Olwen (YourEatopia) and Amber Rogers (Go Kaleo), I have been able to reclaim my body and heal from years of disordered eating (a strategy I used to internalise traumas I experienced as a woman — as an Indigenous woman). I cannot express how grateful I am for thos...
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Through the work of Gwyneth Olwen (YourEatopia) and Amber Rogers (Go Kaleo), I have been able to reclaim my body and heal from years of disordered eating (a strategy I used to internalise traumas I experienced as a woman — as an Indigenous woman). I cannot express how grateful I am for thos...
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it’s about misogyny
I’ve come a long way from the fragile woman I was at the height of my anorexia at the age of 19 — 117 pounds, bruises blooming across my hips from the unbearable violence of my backpack straps against my waist. Obsessively counting every calorie that passed my lips; salads without dre...
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I’ve come a long way from the fragile woman I was at the height of my anorexia at the age of 19 — 117 pounds, bruises blooming across my hips from the unbearable violence of my backpack straps against my waist. Obsessively counting every calorie that passed my lips; salads without dre...
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positive July
I noticed that I was getting overly cynical — fixating on petty conflicts, gossip, and other negative practices or dynamics that don’t add much to my life or to the lives of those around me. So I decided to try ‘positive July’. This month I will consciously make an effort ...
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I noticed that I was getting overly cynical — fixating on petty conflicts, gossip, and other negative practices or dynamics that don’t add much to my life or to the lives of those around me. So I decided to try ‘positive July’. This month I will consciously make an effort ...
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A day in the life of a Michif writer/nomad
I really love books and articles that discuss the habits of creative people. Since writing and making are usually quite solitary endeavours, it’s always exciting to catch a glimpse of how a creative person uses their time and also how they shape the spaces/environments within which they wor...
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I really love books and articles that discuss the habits of creative people. Since writing and making are usually quite solitary endeavours, it’s always exciting to catch a glimpse of how a creative person uses their time and also how they shape the spaces/environments within which they wor...
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Love is inherently decolonising – some thoughts on Junot Diaz’ ‘decolonial love’
Some really powerful, really beautiful things are currently being written about decolonial love. And I hope people continue to write about decolonising sex, decolonising relationships, decolonising gender roles, decolonising how we are conditioned not to express emotional vulnerability (as a matt...
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Some really powerful, really beautiful things are currently being written about decolonial love. And I hope people continue to write about decolonising sex, decolonising relationships, decolonising gender roles, decolonising how we are conditioned not to express emotional vulnerability (as a matt...
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tea
sitting over a cup of steaming tea, it’s impossible not to imagine all the cups of tea I’ve had in my lifetime. Cups of overly strong Red Rose tea mixed with a generous syrup of white sugar served in the deep green melamine cups my Grandma used to reserve for us grandkids. Tea mixed w...
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sitting over a cup of steaming tea, it’s impossible not to imagine all the cups of tea I’ve had in my lifetime. Cups of overly strong Red Rose tea mixed with a generous syrup of white sugar served in the deep green melamine cups my Grandma used to reserve for us grandkids. Tea mixed w...
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Summer summer simmer
Not a lot to post about other than my daily attempts to put dissertation text to paper. So rather than procrastinate here with words (save it for the thesis, Todd!), I’ll say it with flowers. Or pictures.
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Not a lot to post about other than my daily attempts to put dissertation text to paper. So rather than procrastinate here with words (save it for the thesis, Todd!), I’ll say it with flowers. Or pictures.
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Edmonton City Centre Airport/Blatchford: another Edmonton developer boondoggle
Okay. I have a bone to pick with people who were pro-conversion of the Edmonton City Centre Airport. Four years ago, you promised taxpayers that this green development would be world-class. You pooh-poohed the concerns of northerners — like my friends in the farthest reaches of the Northwes...
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Okay. I have a bone to pick with people who were pro-conversion of the Edmonton City Centre Airport. Four years ago, you promised taxpayers that this green development would be world-class. You pooh-poohed the concerns of northerners — like my friends in the farthest reaches of the Northwes...
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