When I went to visit my Jehovah’s Witness parents a month or so ago, I told them that I was fighting for and doing my best to protect the land. They told me I shouldn’t bother since this was all foretold in the Bible and everything will be soon destroyed in Armageddon anyway. I’m so glad I left that religion decades ago, but depressed that so many people don’t believe a healthy planet is worth fighting for. #ExJW #armageddon #ClimateCatastrophe #LandDefender #JehovahsWitnesses
Northern Nights is a proposed horror/dark fiction anthology in the vein of previous anthologies of Canadian speculative fiction — Northern Stars (Hartwell & Grant, eds.); Northern Suns (Hartwell & Grant, eds.) — and the 5 volume Northern Frights series (Don Hutchison, ed).
Black glassy lakes. Dark woods. Ancient pines and maples. Abandoned highways. Ghost towns. Preternatural light. The Midnight Sun. Uncanny valleys. An indigo sky spiked with bright white stars. The darkening garden. The sting of the whooshing north wind. The killing cold. A cry in the dark. It’s another night in the Canadian north. Night and all its torments.
OPENS: Oct. 1, 2023
CLOSES: Dec. 1, 2023
Anticipated publication date: Fall 2024 https://undertowpublications.com/northern-nights-anthology #CallForSubmissions #CanLit #SpeculativeFiction #anthology #WritingCommunity #ShortStories #horror
My most recent publication has just dropped: a CNF piece in About Place Journal called “The Silent Madness of Whales.” https://aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-more-than-human-world/communion/shantell-powell/ #whales #CNF #SpermWhales #ClimateChange @e7abd6b4 #SeaLife #Nuliajuk #SpeculativeNonfiction #IndigenousFuturism #Inuit #IndigenousCreatives #WritersOfMastodon #AuthorsOfMastodon #ecology
My dad intentionally did not get me status. He hid from me that we are Mi’kmaq until about fifteen years ago when I found out his sister is Mi’kmaw. He was trying to save me from what had happened to him and his siblings, and you know, maybe he did. Because I was never taken away and incarcerated in one of those loathsome residential “schools”. The last residential school closed three years after I graduated university. He only opened up to me about his mom being Mi’kmaw a year ago. I know almost nothing about Mi’kmaq culture. The very little I do know comes from a Mi’kmaw elder who prepared me to go through a week of ceremony shortly after the lockdowns. Please consider donating to the Indian Residential School Survivors’ Society. You could also look through the #IndigenousMutualAid tag and find folks who can really use your help. #ResidentialSchool #genocide #Indigedon #OrangeShirtDay #IndigenousMastodon #TruthAndReconciliationDay https://www.irsss.cahttps://s3.c.im/media_attachments/files/111/154/495/079/333/849/original/6d80c44fa4f372a0.jpeg
Apple. China paint on porcelain tile. I miss painting these. They were quick, fun projects. And I always got a kick out of people reaching to touch them and then being startled that the apple is two-dimensional. #apple #ChinaPainting #PorcelainPainting #IndigenousCreatives #ArtistsOnMastodon
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The air is poison today so I wore my mask for my entire workout. I don’t know how firefighters do all that training with respirators on, but I’m possibly gonna find out. I wore a mask while running, biking, doing about 150 walking lunges, a heap of Nordic curls, knee raises, and a bunch of high crossbody box step-ups. I wore a mask yesterday for a 5km cross country hike. Wearing a mask while training is a heck of a handicap. I feel like I’m doing everything while carrying a sandbag. It’s a lot harder for me to regulate my breathing because the fitted piece going over my nose feels like it’s cutting off some of my nasal airways, and I end up sucking wind through my mouth instead. That’s not great for my asthma, but neither is this poison air. I just pace myself as best as I can. #RespiratoryDisease #Asthma #ClimateDiary #MaskUp #CanadaWildfires #Fitness
I dreamt that I stopped into the University of New Brunswick for something or another only to discover I would be back to school in one week, and that I would be living in residence. The thing was, I didn’t remember registering, and had no idea what I would even be studying. I hurriedly tried to get my shit packed, tried to see how I could bring my chinchillas, wondered if I could ask my parents for help moving to residence, etc. Then I realized I was on a busy campus and not wearing a mask, that my parents are too old to ask for that kind of help, and that being in school fulltime meant I wouldn’t make the deadline for finishing the first draft of my novel. #Dream #DreamLog #AnxietyDream
Rural central New Brunswick, deep in the Canadian Appalachians. View from the top of the hill from where I spent many of my growing-up years. I rode my ponies through those woods, toboganed down those long, steep hills, hiked and skied with my dogs and cats. No place I’ve ever lived can match this area for autumn colours. #NewBrunswick #FallColors #FallColours #JacobsLadder #Appalachians #HayField #Forest #Forests #Sky
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@3d552680 I woke up in the middle of the night to cops in my living room when I was in my 20s. It took weeks of trying before I was able to find out why they were in there. Apparently, the people in the apartment upstairs “heard a noise.” Whut.
My aunt Maisie and my cousin Sandy sometime in the early 70s. Maisie was my Dad’s sister and died about ten years ago. I’ve been told I take after her. It is because of her I found out I’m Mi’kmaw. My Dad never talked about being Mi’kmaw until a year ago. That’s one of the awful things residential schools do. He never enrolled me because he was afraid I might get put in one, too. The last one closed a couple of the are after I graduated university. my cousin Sandy grew up to be a professional hockey player. #Mikmaq #Mikmaw #indigenous #FamilyPhotos
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