This is the story of a girl who lost her shadow. She would spend most of her life searching for this shadow. She lost it as a…
A letter to Nanaimo
WARNING: This blog contains mention of sexual abuse Dear Nanaimo, I am writing this letter to inform you, the city I have grown to love and the…
Getting to Tomorrow: Nanaimo dialogues speech
June 16 – I am deeply grateful to be gathered here with you here on the traditional and ancestral territories of the Snuneymuxw First Nation. My name…
We have a lot of work to do and a lot of love to spread
My name is Annie and I am Cree from La Ronge in Northern Saskatchewan. I left there when was 8 because I was sick with Tuberculosis and…
OAT “Therapy” and me
I live in Nanaimo, also known as the unceded territory of the Snuneymuxw First Nations. It’s a city that goes by many other names: “The City with…
The Abyss
Unending darkness on unending night. Each way I turn, above me and below. Threatening to rebirth my greatest fears, But still I do not run from the…