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The Blogs We Write

  Reading Blog Soundtrack: “This is a Fire Door Never Leave Open” and “Left and Leaving” by The Weakerthans I had never blogged before this term.  I practically broke into a cold sweat at the idea of our individual blogs and class blogging.  I love to write.  I sometimes feel that “drive to inscribe” that […]

Unsettling Experience: encountering the IRS through “Speaking to Memory”

In Unsettling the Settler Within  Paulette Regan writes, “Reconnecting reason and emotion – head and heart – is integral to an unsettling pedagogy” (12).  For me, walking into the “Speaking to Memory: Images and Voices from St. Michael’s Residential School” exhibit was an unsettling experience.  It was unsettling emotionally.  It was also a reminder of the […]

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