2021

‘Three people fainted on the first day’

The day after, I went swimming with a couple of my friends. I remember seeing crabs, small fish, and shellfish all over the beach. The only smell I remember is…

‘It was no longer something on the horizon that was coming to get us. It was in our live reality. That almost made me feel validated in some sick way’

I worked at a concession stand at the beach in a little hut. I think there was just one big fan in the whole little hut for us to be…

‘Nature is powerful and it doesn’t care if there’s a town there’

This was 2021, the year after COVID. Things were starting to open up again and I planned a trip with my friend Amelia from high school to stay at her…

‘It was like walking into a sauna’

It's an old building with really, really old windows, and they don't close properly. So in the winter, there's a draft. In the summer, there's hot air coming in through…

My hopes for Indigenous rights and allyship in the year 2021

The years of 2019/2020 felt like a regression in Indigenous rights and sovereignty. That is not to say that As we move into the year 2021 of the Gregorian calendar,…