Note from Andrea: Today we’re excited to bring you a very special guest post by Rachel Bryant. This post was previously published on her blog (https://rachelbryant.ca), and she has graciously given us permission to repost it here! Enjoy!
Rachel Bryant is a is a Settler Canadian researcher who divides her time between the unceded territories of the Mi’kmaq and Wolastoqiyik peoples. She is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English at Dalhousie University in K’jipuktuk/Halifax and the author of The Homing Place: Indigenous and Settler Literary Legacies of the Atlantic (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2017). She spends most of her time in Menahkwesk/Saint John with her partner and their two babies.