Gavin Fitch

In this post I will be discussing the similarities and differences in the stories we shared of our earliest or most profound memory of racism. i) Normative narratives After lots of consideration I found three stories that portrayed some normative narratives quite well. In Jorah’s blog story titled “Volumes” Jorah notices that there is a […]

When I was 11 years old I started competitive dance. I’ve had never seen gender as a barrier for any reason. My local dance club at this point only had one male competitive dancer, me. This led to a lot of bullying in and out of school. The kids my age and older thought dance […]

I never realized I was better off economically than anyone else. In fact the realization never came to me until I met one of my friends. This friend helped open my eyes to the economic struggles that some people face. This friend was new in our school and he and I where at my house […]

In history class during my grade 12 year political debates where always raging. Keep in mind we are in small town Saskatchewan. I remember one vividly, It started out by identifying where you stood politically on a piece of paper. Keep in mind it was not real political parties or anything. We had already organized […]

                When I hear people say that “we are all treaty people” the first thing that comes to mind is that they are acknowledging that we all live on treaty land and they acknowledge the troubling and miserable history of this land, land built on tumultuous relationships. I think as a person with Indigenous and […]

It is 2:15, we are all gathered in our large school gym. Two people dressed in feathers of various colours come into the room. I cannot be helped but to think this is not normal attire for a formal presentation. “What are they doing?” A question thrown out by many of my fellow students echoing […]