“For Stonechild, practices of personal wellness are integral to fighting white supremacy and healing from intergenerational trauma. “If you want to be doing this work, you should be talking about social justice issues while you’re practicing self-care,” she shares. “That’s the thing—why are we not making wellness accessible to the people who need it most?”
“Sunlight filters through seawater, casting marbled, wavering patterns on the sandy floor. All around you, the ocean at low tide spreads out; beautiful and featureless, reflective, inhospitable. As you look over your shoulder, a virtual reality headset pressing on your orbital bone, you realize three women surround you, moving through the water in fluid, looping motions.”
“I wasn’t, in my adolescence, able to recognize Gabriola’s wild strangeness as beauty. The island’s crater-like sandstone beaches are lined by dramatic arbutus trees that undulate upwards, shedding papery red bark at the slightest touch. The beaches’ otherworldly rock formations, created by rain and tide against soft sandstone, appear as mushroomy shapes and honeycomb networks of tiny holes; the resulting coastline looks very much like the surface of the moon.”
“Does anything epitomize the human fascination with death and violence better than the concept of the perfect crime? In “Skull Practice,” his recent show at Wil Aballe Art Projects, Vancouver artist Scott Billings used 3D printing, robotics and computer-assisted design to examine this cultural conceit in frighteningly clinical detail.”
As a magazine contributor, Genevieve is responsive, thoughtful, and professional. As a writer, she is talented and inquiring, with a clear and compelling voice. I’ve had the pleasure of working with Genevieve for several years in her role as a contributing writer to SAD Mag. She approaches stories with genuine curiosity and insight, and her finished work always surpasses our expectations, no matter how high we set them.
“Jeska Slater worked with one young man for eight months before he finally spoke. A trauma survivor dealing with homelessness, he had started attending the art-making events and workshops Slater was putting on through her organization for Indigenous youth, Young Artist Warriors. She later found out he was fluent in three languages: Anishinaabe, English, and French.”
I had a visceral reaction reading [Genevieve’s] essay on fashion seen through the lens of an identity crisis. The writing transported me into the author’s need for protection during a time of loss. We wanted a strong, original storytelling voice that would stay true to the theme of the contest, and we found it in a powerful, unexpected piece.