tawāw nitotēmak, Honey Constant nitisīyikasо̄n, nēhiyaw-iskwēw о̄ma niya. Welcome friends, my name is Honey Constant. I am a Plains Cree woman from Sturgeon Lake First Nation in Saskatchewan, Canada. I am a woman of the Great Plains and I think one of the biggest misconceptions of the prairies is that there is nothing but flat… Read More Where the Prairie Meets the Sky: nēhiyaw-iskwēw о̄ma niya
Language can be beautiful, but it’s also clumsy, a burden. Whenever I write it’s like trying to pin down something that never had a form to begin with. Trying to explain movement in perfect stillness, looking for the connection. Looking for thin places. — Sophia Mirashrafi… Read More ink and stone: thin places // Sophia’s #TheIsolationJournals prompt response
To introduce myself in Cree was a big step for me and, in some way, I felt like an impostor. But I know a lot of us are struggling to learn our language or reconnect to culture.… Read More wāhkōhtowin: I am a Plains Cree woman, and I want to speak Cree.
I read this book at the Right Time. I was in my final year of high school, clumsily grappling with a few of life’s biggest and most ancient questions with just enough arrogance to think that I was getting close to real answers. — Sophia Mirashrafi… Read More shatter a story: a line from a book // Sophia’s #TheIsolationJournal prompt response
But it’s never the jewels and treasure I’m interested in. I’ve always been drawn to the artefacts without shine: ordinary small things, the things that somebody would have used every day. I wrote my letter to a stranger from history who could answer that little voice in my head at the museum. – Sophia Mirashrafi… Read More to whomsoever first owned this spindle // an initial #TheIsolationJournal prompt response from Sophia Mirashrafi
Honey Constant talks beading, indigenous archaeology, and sharing her voice with others.… Read More An Interview with Honey Constant: Plains Cree Archaeologist, Plains Cree Maker
Myth is a wave we ride, a wake we create, a lee in which we rest, and the water in which we swim. How can the work of the Pre-Raphaelites help us recreate myths of beauty, adventure, and imagination?… Read More let us welcome new myths so they can welcome us // Pre-Raphaelite art, body acceptance, and adventure
Myth is a wave we ride, a wake we create, a lee in which we rest, and the water in which we swim. How can the work of the Pre-Raphaelites help us recreate myths of beauty, adventure, and imagination?… Read More let us welcome new myths so they can welcome us // reflections on Pre-Raphaelite art, beauty, adventure, and imagination
This is for anyone who loves adventure but is struggling with an eating disorder, disordered eating, body insecurities, or shame about their appearance: I see you. I’ve been you. I love you.… Read More connecting adventure with body acceptance, part 1
I hope to see you at the Instagram live #spreadlovenotcorona festival tomorrow night. … Read More this week’s festival + awesome anthropology resources
