Land Acknowledgement

I live in so-called Canada, on land that was stolen from Indigenous Peoples who lived here for thousands of years before colonization. The city I live in, “Toronto”, has been the traditional land of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinabek, Algonquin, Haudenosaunee, Odawa, Chippewa and Huron-Wendat peoples and is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Metis peoples.

The random lottery that is birth has assigned me the identity of white, CIS, straight woman and because of this I’ve had little trouble fitting into, and benefitting from, the hetero-normative, Euro and Christian-centric, and ablist worldview that I’ve been conditioned to see as “normal”. I’m trying to untangle myself from the many systems designed to keep people that look like me up, while pushing black, brown, Indigenous, disabled, poor, fat, trans, LGBTQ+, women and so many others down. I see all humanity, and therefore all injustice, as interconnected.

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