N'dadibaajim: I tell a story. This conversation brought together two published memoir writers, Ernestine Hayes and Kaitlin Curtice, along with Demita Frazier, one of the co-founders of the Combahee River Collective whose interview was included in How We Get Free, Joy Henderson who is working on her own memoir of growing up in Toronto's Regent Park neighbourhood, and photographer Jenessa Galenkamp. This conversation includes the books we read, but also reflects on the process and purpose of memoir-writing and the complexity of identity as a constant state of evolution and rebuilding.

In the book, Bad Indians Book Club, the flash fiction that precedes the chapter includes a young man wearing a tshirt by Johnnie Jae that has an image of Sasquatch, who the Ojibwe know as Sabe, and the phrase "live laugh lurk." For the Ojibwe, Sabe represents the teaching of Honesty, which is more than truth-telling. The word often translated as honesty is gwayakwaadiziwin and it has to do with living our lives in a way that aligns with our actions. James Vukelich writes that it breaks down to: observe how I live and the truth will come of it. This is memoir, the unburdening of the truths of our lives and the hope that the things we say align with it.

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