In anticipation of Truth and Reconciliation Day, I read this week for the first time the book 21 Things You May Not Know About The Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality by Bob Joseph, published in 2018.
This book edited by Magali Guilbault Fitzbay and discussing the different strategies of inclusive, feminist, and nonbinary writing is exceptional and gets my very strong recommendation!
I sometimes tweet when interesting things happen. Today, I was given the
opportunity to hear American President Barack Obama speak for the first time in
Montréal. It was my first time hearing him
Girth is the first book by Tara McGowan-Ross, a Mi'kmaw poet and philosopher who lives in Montréal, and who I met in the Creative Writing at Concordia University.
> Politics is pervasive. Everything is political and the choice to be "apolitical"
is usually just an endorsement of the status quo and the unexamined
life.—Rebecca Solnit
I've been hearing the word apolitical