Since the establishment of the Canadian colonial state on Turtle Island, White settlers have used language acts and Othering as key tools for the oppression of Indigenous peoples. Through the application of these discursive tools that reframe Indigenous identities, the Canadian state has manipulated the dynamics of settler-Indigenous relations for its own benefit.
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For those of us who are Black, Indigenous, or otherwise visibly racialized, what does it mean to find ourselves when we are situated in and shaped by a profoundly racist society? Based in part on the experience of living through the Freedom Convoy’s occupation of so-called Ottawa, I explore the notion of finding oneself as a liberatory practice and an act of resistance.
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