What if, artist Kate Brown muses, we treated the environment as she treats her artwork—would we have polluted the very air we breathe if we’d truly understood that it is not empty, not nothing? Could we have dismissed it, destroyed it, knowing that air, oxygen, is tangible, like every corner of a canvas?
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She Speaks: Plastic straws and other distractions
To put it another way, the fervour around individual use of plastic straws makes it seem like we are the problem. But we are the solution. And guilt is a terrible motivator.
She Speaks: Politics, religion, money and ovaries
Maybe my body is a reflection of the world and this toxic disease is akin to the suffocating oceans and the blaze-engulfed Amazon.
She Speaks: I envision a community in Muskoka for women, forever
This is the vision I have for Muskoka. A dedicated space for women – not a shelter, not transitional housing, not rentals, but a land held in trust, and homes created by and for the women who wish to live there. Homes that belong to them. A sense of ownership, pride, stability, security, community, respect.
She Speaks: Yes, we really call you cidiots, but in an endearing way
I think I wish tourists understood that they are not seeing all the layers we live in, and I wish they wanted to. I wish they believed they had more to offer than money, or that more than money is needed.
She Speaks: Justice begins with a word
What does it do to a community or a group of people to see their loved one treated so inhumanely, to see themselves and their culture systematically destroyed?
She Speaks: Who Are You Really Mad At?
Every person has the opportunity to shift from blame and shame to courage and compassion. It’s become too easy to hand wash away the issues we face as a community – but the hard thing and the right thing are often the same.
She Speaks: Yes, we really call you cidiots, but as a term of endearment
There are people who have lived in this town their whole lives and haven’t been to one of the more upscale restaurants. There are homeless folks here who live in tents hidden from sight who’ve never stayed in Algonquin Park. There are people who haven’t taken the Portage Flyer, or one of the cruises, or seen a concert at the Algonquin Theatre.
She Speaks: Who are you really mad at?
We aren’t going to get rid of drugs. We shouldn’t want to get rid of people who are addicted.
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