Content Warning: Residential Schools //

content warning: residential schools //

as Orange Shirt Day / The National Day of Truth and Reconciliation nears [September 30] I want to give a bit of context to those internationally who might not know that this day is.

Orange Shirt Day was started by Phyllis Webstad and others in 2013. This is a day to reflect and promote reconciliation, as well as uplift and support the victims and communities impacted by the Canadian residential school system. This is also the origin of the Every Child Matters movement.

The National Day of Truth and Reconciliation, as it's known by the Canadian government, was only formed as an official national day in 2021 after 200 unmarked graves were discovered on the property of the former Kamloops indian residential school that same year. Currently there are estimated thousands of graves on residential school properties; many of which have not been properly addressed.

Kivalliq Hall was the last residential school in Canada and closed in 1997. This is not some far-off distant history thing, many people alive today were sent to residential schools as children.

If you want to give support, consider donating to the Indian Residential Schools Survivor Society, or Orange Shirt Day. The IRSSS does fantastic work, offering counselling and numerous support lines - including one for 24/7 crisis support. I'd also like to mention Reconciliation Canada, as they also do good work.

This is a small personal anecdote here, but I'd like to recommend checking out Indian Horse; a novel by the late Richard Wagamese that follows the life of a boy going through the residential school system. There is also a film adaptation by the same name. This book [and its film] offers valuable education on the dark history that is residential schools.

I'm always happy to have additional links and educational material added to my posts, so please do not hesitate to add onto this. thank you.

The Rook and Rose Trilogy is really a case of knowing what women want:

Shawl full of knives

Loving found family

Secret superhero identity

Hot vigilante boyfriend

Kitten (given to you by the hot vigilante boyfriend)

Derossi Vargo will say "I don't care about anyone, I only do things for my own gain because I'm a selfish man and all I desire is power," while he is pushing himself to the brink of death to save his friends, his town, and everyone inside its walls and I love that for him

Iascat: You have to apologize to them, Vargo.

Vargo: Fine! But I must warn you that this might make me a better, nicer person and that is NOT the man you fell in love with!

birthday boy got poisoned :(((

Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde #2) - Heather Fawcett