The Land of Ghost and Glory
CW: NSFW Themes In the discourse on identity and sexual orientation, a fascinating interplay emerges when one positions Indigenous philosophies side by side with Queer theory — Little Bear’s description of Aboriginal philosophy and paradigms offers a profoundly inclusive worldview, characterised by...
REVIEW: I’m Just Waiting for Something to Happen
The Ivory-billed Woodpecker was a remarkable and charismatic bird, once inhabiting the southeastern United States, particularly in bottomland hardwood forests and swamps. It was a beautiful black beast — with white wing patches, and a vivid red crest. Due to logging, land...
Analysis: Hatching From Trauma
CW: Child abuse, Canadian Residential Schools, Racism Some truths are too brutal for prose and require a different language. One of metaphor and nightmare, where a black lizard can crawl into a child’s mouth and lay eggs. Gregory Scofield’s “Cycle...
Walking the Red Road
The sun breaches the horizon on a spring Manitoban morning in 1996, in Winnipeg, the Heart of the Continent, where my journey begins, painted on a canvas of contradiction. Winnipeg — a Cree word meaning “murky water” according to Artibise — resides near the...