EPISODE · Jan 21, 2020 · 17 MIN
S4 E2 Rebecca Thomas
from Book Me · host Book Me
Season 4, Episode 2 The Legacy of Residential Schools. Reflecting on her personal history, I’m Finding My Talk, award-winning spoken-word artist, Mi’kmaw activist and former Halifax poet laureate Rebecca Thomas discusses the importance of reclaiming cultural language and how she strives to broaden perspectives of indigeneity. A response poem to Rita Joe’s I Lost My Talk, both I’m Finding My Talk and I Lost My Talk are available through Nimbus Publishing as companion children’s books.
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Season 4, Episode 2 The Legacy of Residential Schools. Reflecting on her personal history, I’m Finding My Talk, award-winning spoken-word artist, Mi’kmaw activist and former Halifax poet laureate Rebecca Thomas discusses the importance of reclaiming cultural language and how she strives to broaden perspectives of indigeneity. A response poem to Rita Joe’s I Lost My Talk, both I’m Finding My Talk and I Lost My Talk are available through Nimbus Publishing as companion children’s books.
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