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  • Why Are All of My Exes White?

    Why Are All of My Exes White?

    “What’s your type?” Depending on who’s asking, I have one of two responses: “I don’t really have a type,” or “How’s your dad been lately?” EXHIBIT A Joshua (2014): caucasian,...

    Why Are All of My Exes White?

    “What’s your type?” Depending on who’s asking, I have one of two responses: “I don’t really have a type,” or “How’s your dad been lately?” EXHIBIT A Joshua (2014): caucasian,...

  • How Growing Up “Ghetto” Redefined What Success Looks Like For Me

    How Growing Up “Ghetto” Redefined What Success ...

    Susanne and I were sitting on her veranda one morning after working out outside together. She’d made us Americanos and we sipped on them as our conversation graduated to heavier...

    How Growing Up “Ghetto” Redefined What Success ...

    Susanne and I were sitting on her veranda one morning after working out outside together. She’d made us Americanos and we sipped on them as our conversation graduated to heavier...

  • You can take the child out of the residential school... But you can’t replace what the Qallunaat stole while she was there

    You can take the child out of the residential s...

    *Qallunaat=Inuktitut for ‘white people’ (refers less to skin colour and more a state of mind) I’m in the same old coffeeshop I come to five days of the week to...

    You can take the child out of the residential s...

    *Qallunaat=Inuktitut for ‘white people’ (refers less to skin colour and more a state of mind) I’m in the same old coffeeshop I come to five days of the week to...

  • Stolen Sisters on the Highway of Tears

    Stolen Sisters on the Highway of Tears

    Maybe it’s the Native in me but I love camping — camping in the real sense of the word. Drive out well beyond city limits, hike a trail or portage for a...

    Stolen Sisters on the Highway of Tears

    Maybe it’s the Native in me but I love camping — camping in the real sense of the word. Drive out well beyond city limits, hike a trail or portage for a...

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Shop the earrings

  • Why do you bead?

    To heal, to share, to create, to fiddle about with too small beads with my too big fingers. But mostly, I make earrings to remind you (and me) there's a story behind everything and everyone we interact with.

  • Who can wear them?

    Anyone. Everyone. Their mama's and papa's too. Even if you're not Indigenous. By appreciating Indigenous culture, we have more room to expand and flourish in an institution that has long prevented us from doing so.

  • How do you create?

    On a felt beading mat with hours of time, a distorted needle I'm too lazy to replace, and an idea gifted to me from wherever ideas come from.

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