Nishnaabe & White. Canadian & USian. She/Her. Mother. Queer and Polya. Mid-30s. BA in Public History & Amerindian Studies. Archivist. Star Wars fan. Communist.
Jan 6, 2022 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
So, I have thoughts as an #Indigenous person about the first two chapters of #TheBookOfBobaFett and I can't keep them in. I don't want to spoil people, so this is your warning to click away now. Another note: I am just one Anishinaabe woman and represent only myself. 1/
I have long loved Tuskens, ever since KotOR. People who know me well know that I've long threatened to write Tusken fanfic. So when I say that I loved the humanization of the Tuskens in BoBF (and The Mando), know that it's from a long-standing Tusken fandom 2/
Jan 6, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
I haven't talked about it much on here, but last year my partner of several years died after struggling with Long Covid for a year. They had an early case of Alpha in 2020 and their lungs never fully recovered. They were on oxygen for the rest of their life and died at 40. 1/
They also died a week before my mother died, in a hospital less than a mile from the one in which my mom lay dying on a high pressure O2 machine. Her death came not from Covid, but from severe side effects of chemoradiation for her lung cancer 2/
Jan 6, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
"Remote learning is bad for a child's mental health."
Fuck, you know what's bad for a child's mental health?
* Yet another fucking global catastrophe that the adults /could/ do something to mitigate but refuse
* Said global catastrophe existing alongside other global catastrophes
* Living in a supposedly first-world country where access to mental health services is severely limited by a lack of universal healthcare AND a shortage of providers due to the scarcity model
