Follow-up: An Interview with Frances Widdowson

This is a follow-up to Frances Widdowson Dedicates Her Life to Denying Residential Indian School Survivors, Then Calls Herself the Victim, published earlier today. The original piece noted that Widdowson had been reached for comment but did not respond in time for publication. Shortly after it went live, she did. What followed was an extended exchange in which Widdowson made her case, I made mine, and we went around and around in a loop that felt, by the end, almost geological in its repetition. I am publishing the full conversation here, lightly edited only to correct my own speech-to-text errors, because I think it speaks for itself. The final three messages she sent speak for themselves in particular. I will let you read it first, and then I will say one thing at the end. The Exchange Me: Hello Frances, I would like to know if you would want to comment on this story before I publish it. Widdowson: Sure. Thanks for asking. Regards, Frances. Widdowson: The question is whether the…