Photo of Gitxsan Dancers at the Coastal First Nations Dance Festival at the UBC Museum of Anthropology As you all know, I sort of lead a double life. I’m full time freelance writer, but I’m also a full time 4th year anthropology student at
Whenever I’m in London, I make it a point to visit my place of worship. Nope, it’s not St. Paul’s Cathedral, or Westminster Abbey. They’re lovely, but as an Atheist (gasp!) my admiration for English churches doesn’t go much further than the exquisiteness of their
I’ve been writing as long as I can remember. When I was in Kindergarten, it was little stories. Then it progressed into poems, next, letters to Green Peace, (Thanks to my mom for indulging a 7 year whale-loving activist), then it was personal essays, and
I like to think of myself as a fairly principled person. I know the difference between right and wrong, I believe in the golden rule, and each day, I strive to become a more empathetic, self aware human being. These are the things that define
Explaining the dynamics of my family has always been, trying shall we say. I never really understood why people were so hell-bent on defining what family is, or why they were so consumed with appropriating labels. But as I matured, I realized that for the
There are about 20-30 different academic definitions of the word “culture”. But it’s really more than just a word. It’s a word that conjures up all sorts of images, emotions, opinions and beliefs. From the 15th century until as recently as the late 1900′s, it