Summer 2021

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HERIZONS SUMMER 2021 VOL. 35 No. 2

NEWS

TURKISH WOMEN PROTEST VIOLENCE TREATY WITHDRAWAL. 6

by Dario Sabaghi

ABUSE SURVIVOR CALLS FORJUSTICE SYSTEM OVERHAUL. 7
by Doreen Nicoll

WHY I’M A FEMINIST: MEGHAN WHITE . 9
by Victoria Bailey

 

FEATURES

RITA WONG: THE POETRY OF WATER. 14

To enter Rita Wong’s oeuvre of poetry is to take a journey through histories of
resistance—at once specific to the West Coast, and at once global and transnational.
Her activism in support of Indigenous nations as land protectors and water-keepers is
integral to her belief that poetry is a public discourse, with the capacity to affect and
create communities.

by Jane Shi

 

FEMALE FRIENDSHIPS. 18

How Our Bonds Are Bound by the Political Landscape

From the Middle Ages to the current era of social media, friendships among
women have always been rooted in the broader world context. And while the bonds
of sisterhood have withstood centuries of suspicion and criticism, female friendships
today reveal a shifting landscape in which genuine connections are more important than ever.

by Andi Schwartz

WHEN KINSHIP WAS COLONIZED . 24
Métis Families and the 60s Scoop

Allyson Stevenson talks about her new book, Intimate Integration:
A History of the Sixties Scoop and the Colonization of Indigenous Kinship, a
timely examination of how Indigenous and Metis families were torn apart
during years of child apprehensions known as the 60s Scoop.

by Stephanie Cram

MUSIC . 29

Theory of Ice by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson; Anywhere but Here by TiKA
Reviews by Rosie Long Decter 

BOOKS . 30

Uncle: Race, Nostalgia, and the Politics of Loyalty by Cheryl Thompson;
Like a Boy but Not a Boy: Navigating Life, Mental Health, and Parenthood Outside the Gender Binary by andrea bennett;
Hello. This is Jane. by Judith Arcana;
People You Follow by Hayley Gene Penner;
Butter Honey Pig Bread by Francesca Ekwuyasi;
Mothers, Mothering, and COVID-19: Dispatches from a Pandemic, edited by Andrea O’Reilly and Fiona Joy Green;
Burning Sugar by Cicely Belle Blain;
So You’re A Little Sad, So What? Nice Things to Say to Yourself on Bad Days and Other Essays by Alicia Tobin;
Notes on a Silencing by Lacy Crawford; Small Courage: A Queer Memoir of Finding Love and Conceiving Family by Jane Byers; Sex Work Activism in Canada: Speaking Out, Standing Up, edited by Amy Lebovitch and Shawna Ferris;
What Hurts Going Down by Nancy Lee.

 

FILM REVIEWS . 38

Beans, directed by Tracey Deer, reviewed by Dipti Gupta;
Coded Bias, directed by Shalini Kantayya, reviewed by Maureen Medved.

COLUMNS

INJECTING INDIGENOUS RIGHTS INTO HEALTH CARE . 5

by Lianne C. Leddy

ANTI-BLACK RACISM IS A TEACHABLE MOMENT. 11

by Cheryl Thompson

BLAMING VICTIMS SO NOT FINE 28

by Kate Sloan

INEQUITIES BOOST COVID FATALITIES . 40

by Manjeet Birk