Author: ceno byte

March is Women’s History Month (in the US). I’m posting articles featuring important women. I’ve been missing her a lot lately. This should be the time of my life when we can finally see eye-to-eye. When I apologize for the bullshit I put her through and she sits back and

March is Women’s History Month (in the US). I’m taking this opportunity to write about women who’ve inspired me. There was really little more than native grass and dust in the most of the province when my grandmothers were born – one in southwest and one in central Saskatchewan. They

March is Women’s History Month (in the US). I’m taking this opportunity to write about women who’ve inspired me. There was really little more than native grass and dust in the most of the province when my grandmothers were born – one in southwest and one in central Saskatchewan. They

March is Women’s History Month (in the US) These are some of the women who have made a difference in my life. There is one woman I remember looking up to my whole life. I mean, I remember the sensation of just looking at her and thinking “wow”. From the

March is Women’s History Month (in the US) These are some of the women who have made a difference in my life. When I asked my Auntie Jo how she’d met my uncle, she said “I had just started teaching [in the tiny Saskatchewan hamlet my mum’s family is from],

March is Women’s History Month I’m making a series of posts about women who’ve made a difference in my life. I remember going to a friend’s stagette party (it was the first stagette to which I had been invited, other than my aunt’s bridal shower at which my mother, much

March is Women’s History Month (in the US). This is a series of posts about important women. Do you have a friend who’s been part of your life for as long as you can remember? It’s a crazy, wonderful relationship. Almost like siblings, but you *choose* to stay close. Through

March is Women’s History Month (in the US). I am doing a series of posts about women who’ve made an impression on me. You have probably never heard of Gwen Jacob. This is unfortunate. In the early 90s, Ms. Jacob fought in the Canadian court system for equal rights. It

March is Women’s History month (in the US). This is a series of posts about women who have made an impression on me.   Anne Frank never had the chance to become a woman. But what she wrote as a young lady brought history to life.  Her book did what textbooks

March is Women’s History Month (in the US) I’m posting about women who are important and/or who have inspired me. One of the insidious and vicious consequences of the Canadian government’s colonial history and crimes against humanity in its treatment of Aboriginal peoples is an inherited racism that seems insurmountable

March is Women’s History Month (in the US). I am doing a series of posts about women who have inspired me. I remember exactly where and when I first encountered this woman. It was 1977, and I was at Granny’s house watching Sesame Street. I lived in “northern” Saskatchewan, right

March is women’s history month (in the US). I’m making a series of posts about women I think are pretty important. It may be your mum, or your grandmother, or your great-grandmother, but for about half of our country’s population, they left everything they had behind in a land which

March is women’s history month (in the US). I’m talking about some of the women who have inspired me. Today’s woman is Simone de Beauvoir. She was a French philosopher, social theorist, political activist, and writer. Although her works in social theory and philosophy are striking, important, and accessible works,