i acknowledge my place of work is within the ancestral, traditional, and unceded territories of the tmixʷ (Syilx okanagan), snʕickstx tmxʷúlaʔxʷ (Sinixt) and ɁamakɁis (Ktunaxa) peoples, as well as many other diverse Indigenous persons, including the Métis.

what's with the lower case writing? language is inherently malleable. the aim is to challenge my own perspectives, invite new ways of seeing, and disrupt convention through the written word. 

dr. linda manyguns uses lower case as a political act, only using capital letters to acknowledge the Indigenous struggle for recognition. i align with her and others like e. e. cummings, bell hooks, and adrienne maree brown, who play with form and ~ as manyguns states ~ "reject the symbols of hierarchy" wherever possible.