Monthly Archives: May 2020

Eva Holland: “Fear is essential”

May 21, 2020Arts, Health, Life, SportsEva Holland, Fear, Nerve, Outdoors, Travel, WritingMartin Bauman

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In 2015, writer and Outside magazine correspondent Eva Holland was forced to confront the question: what happens when the thing you fear the most comes true? The daughter of a mother who lost her own parents young, Holland long feared the same would happen to her. Then, on a camping trip in northwestern British Columbia, … Continue reading Eva Holland: “Fear is essential” →

Dr. Erynne Gilpin: “Knowledge is relational”

May 14, 2020Environment, Health, Life, Nature, Politics, SportsErynne Gilpin, Indigenous Womxn Climb, Land-Based WellnessMartin Bauman

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A co-founder of UATÊ // STORIED LEARNING, a vehicle for community-led knowledge mobilization through film and storytelling, Erynne Gilpin is a Victoria-based educator, birth doula, bead worker, and activist. The creator of Indigenous Womxn Climb, she is interested in Indigenous resurgence through “embodied governance, insurgent healing, and land/water-based wellness.” “Knowledge is really interconnected with everything … Continue reading Dr. Erynne Gilpin: “Knowledge is relational” →

Eternity Martis: “I had to survive”

May 7, 2020Arts, LifeAuthors, Campus Life, Eternity Martis, Race, They Said This Would Be Fun, WritingMartin Bauman

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Eternity Martis found that as a Black student at a mostly-white university, she learned more about “what someone like me brought out in other people than who I was.” From blackface to racial slurs, she chronicled it all in her debut memoir, They Said This Would Be Fun. A blend of personal stories and in-depth … Continue reading Eternity Martis: “I had to survive” →