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How Kent Monkman creates new conversations about art and Canada's past [2025 HIGHLIGHTS]

from Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud

This year, on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, the group chat gathered to talk about Kent Monkman, Kent Monkman is having a profound impact on the way we understand Canada’s past – and the histories of Indigenous peoples.  Riley Yesno, Susan Blight and Marion Newman celebrated Kent Monkman, whose gender-fluid alter ego, Miss Chief Eagle Testickle is now the subject of an opera in development. They spoke with Elamin around the time parts of that opera were being performed in Montreal.  

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