I’m spending my last day in Washington watching independent theatre

A play in two acts. Like all great plays, it is a comedy read left to right and a tragedy read right to left

Here is our cat, who I miss a lot, offering a classic tummy trap. This is how bunny kicks happen

90% of archival documents research I am doing on representations of Indigenous peoples and Canada in the early modern period seems to be coming across openly racist and sexist texts. But sometimes it is worth it because you get to see fun maps, like this one that imagines Canada as a stegosaurus

I still miss my dog. His name is Marlowe and he has complicated feelings

My puppy is cute and I miss him

OMG! “I’ll get right on it” is number two in paperback fiction at McNally’s! Our book is on the same list as Vermette and Zilla Jones!

I’m re-reading Amber Dawn’s How Poetry Saved My Life, A Hustler’s Memoir and I am absolutely astounded by how much compassion and honesty she writes with. Arsenal press is a natural treasure

It makes me sad that people will dismiss this horrible statement as a “joke.” This is a white woman with a national platform commenting about killing more Indigenous people. This kind of “joke” normalizes ongoing violence against Indigenous peoples

I am assuming that international law must have changed between 2022 and today and I just missed the memo. After all, Trump was just nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize and would never use his own social media platform to confess to a war crime

I love how wild UdeM campus is. I have never seen an actual groundhog outside of a zoo before. They are like Hulk squirrels

Since I simply can’t process the whole political discourse right now, I am spending the afternoon attending Waitress at RMTC. I hope this will be apolitical, escapist musical

I’m doing a virtual talk @umanitoba.bsky.social in January!

I finally saw a Shakespeare play at The Globe. It felt like a weird rite of passage.