Michaela MacMurchy

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Socioeconomic status – the measure of someone’s work experience and their individual or families economic and social position in relation to other people’s. While reading Cassi’s story and Meg’s story about realizing their socioeconomic status, I came across a familiar normative narrative that I could relate to in my story Read more…

It was a hot and sunny day in Regina, Saskatchewan. I was biking to school in a t-shirt and basketball shorts with my light blue SkullCandy headphones on, blasting music, biking to the beat. I arrived at the front of the school and locked my bike to the bike rack, Read more…

It was another cold Friday in Regina, Saskatchewan. I was outside at recess with my friends, playing in the snow, chasing each other around. “Hey Michaela, do you want to come to my house after school?” My friend asked me. “Yeah, sure! I’ll just have to tell my mom!” I Read more…

Whiteness is often tied up with racism, which makes sense to me since white colonizers are the original cause of racism. Obviously not everybody who is white is racist, but there is definitely a good portion who are. However, people also try to play off racism as something they are Read more…

One day, in my grade ten year of high school, I was scrolling through the Instagram application on my phone. My friends were around me and we were laughing at all of the posts under the ‘explore’ tab. As we were sitting in our homeroom class, eating food as we Read more…

Sitting at the tables in my high school library, I was doing some beading for my Indigenous Studies 30 class, with my best friend by my side. Everyone was enjoying themselves as they threaded beads through the paper and fabric. My pattern was a maple leaf, the most well-known symbol Read more…