Pandemic Parents: Our First Year
As the babies born in the pandemic begin to celebrate their first year of life, let us pause and reflect. We are the parents of the strong-hearts who stepped forward into uncertainty to remind us [...]
Pandemic Parenthood
I am a Pandemic Mama. At first this title made me sad, angry, and resentful. But now, nine months into motherhood during a global health crisis, I wear it like a badge of [...]
Indigenous Gift Giving Guide
The winter giving season is almost upon us and this year we have no shortage of reasons to treat ourselves and our loved ones. When we buy from local Indigenous creators and makers, we are [...]
I Sang You Down from the Stars
A love letter from an Indigenous mother to her new baby Drawing from Indigenous creation stories and traditional teachings and illustrated in dazzling watercolours, I Sang You Down from the Stars is a tribute [...]
From the Roots Up: Surviving the City Vol. 2
Dez and Miikwan's stories continue in this sequel to Surviving the City. Dez's grandmother has passed away. Grieving, and with nowhere else to go, she's living in a group home. On top of everything [...]
Surviving the City
Winner of the Indigenous Voices Award, alternate format and an In the Margins Top Fiction Novel for 2020 Tasha Spillett's graphic novel debut, Surviving the City, is a story about womanhood, friendship, colonialism, and [...]
Raising the Revolution
Parenting in a time of protest doesn’t mean you’re sitting on the sidelines. The revolution wakes you before the sun comes up. It asks you a million questions a day. The revolution wants kisses for [...]
He Cried Out for His Mama
He cried out for his mama. I can’t get this out of my head. When I saw it, another public execution of a Black person, I was holding my phone in one hand and my [...]
Descendants
To remember- We are not descendants of slaves. We are descendants of royalty, of scientists, of artists, of prophets, of medicine people, of philosophers, of architects. We are descendants of great and noble People, who [...]
Revolution
and here i stand in a body that comes from bodies wars have been waged upon fortified by generations of sung prayers preparing to bring forward new life this is my revolution [...]
