july 1 🇨🇦

Happy Canada Day! First things first: I love my country. I love living here. I was lucky that my parents settled here in the early 1970s instead of the United States, England, or other places their siblings, relatives, and friends ended up. I like who I am and a lot of the best parts of me radiate with an innate Canadianness, by which I mean if I didn't grow up here, they wouldn't, and that would suck. That said, this country has problems. It is a settler colonial state, after all. Evil, immoral, and vicious things were done —— by people, on purpose —— to build ("build") Canada and we really need to come to terms with that shit politically, spiritually, and reconciliatorily. I know that's not a word but it should be, because we talk a big game about reconciliation but the last time I checked, Indigenous folks in this country experience significant disparities in re: quality of life than non-indigenous folks, which is systemic and deeply rooted in colonialism and that shit echoes…