These Days, Upon Us ALL.

Couple of articles here too, with thanks to the Globe and Mail for highlighting these voices:

https://globe2go.pressreader.com/article/281728389147735

https://globe2go.pressreader.com/article/281784223720196

I find myself considering the parallels between erasures - especially of late, given the recent 'scandal' to rock Parliament. The tried and true argument that "we didn't know" that runs through this moment ( and the various forms of pushback that insist "it wasn't that bad" or "it didn't happen" or "show me the proof") are the voices of those invested in the status quo: in the continued silencing of those voices that speak truth to power, and to the system of settler-colonialism that permeates every aspect of the dominant culture in this country.

I wonder at the blindness. I wonder at the cruelty. I wonder at the refusal to listen, let alone acknowledge our continued collective culpability ... for so many things. And to actually ACT - to expect and insist that those in power do better - seems more difficult by the day.

Time to think and consider (yet again): What more can we each do to create lasting change here? This is a question that has motivated me for many years, and motivated the work I did for my MFA. It will continue to motivate me to try to do better, to be a better neighbour and be in genuine relation.