signal boost: Gwen Benaway's Deep Dive into Interpersonal/Community Repair

GwenBenaway is a trans girl, Annishinabe/Mètis writer, and poet who just won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Holy Wild

Her essay on calling in, calling out, finding justice and repairing the ways we hurt each other is very thought provoking. It includes graphic details of child abuse, child-welfare-agencies and transmisia, which is why I’ve quoted so much here

Repair

( 350 words )

What would it mean if we said “I’m sorry” more to each other? If we were braver to face injustice, not just the injustice that we experience but the injustice that we do to others? If we made space for everyone to be held in their precarity: victims, perpetuators, and bystanders?