Programming note: We will be dark on Monday, September 30, for Canada’s National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. You can learn more about Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women here, and find resources, as well. You can also find information on the Residential Schools Missing Children Community Support Fund here. 

 

And if you live in the Toronto area, you can check out Rez Comedy, the first original Indigenous stand-up comedy movie. It opens Friday, October 4, at Imagine Cinema’s Carlton theater. That aliens joke is solid. Few things are as healing as a good laugh.

 

Rez Comedy poster 

 

 

Charles Fox recounts the effort and ceremony to repatriate the remains of Samuel Flying Horse, Fannie Charging Shield, and James Cornman, all of whom died at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania more than a hundred and thirty years ago. The Carlisle Indian Industrial School was the first federal, off-reservation boarding school in the US. Canada has instituted a day for truth and reconciliation, but in the US, we haven’t even taken that step, even as Native communities are going through the process of returning their lost brothers and sisters to their homes. We can’t change the past, but we can ask ourselves what we can do to better honor it. Returning the victims of residential schools to their tribal lands is just one step on the road. (Indian Country Today)

 

“Adult gap years”, aka sabbaticals, are on the rise, but they aren’t a cure-all for work-related burnout. I would love an extended break—from my day job, at least—but I know myself well enough to know, if I figure out how to live without the 9-5, I’m just not going back. And I am trying to pay off my student loan! Maybe once that goal is reached, my reward will be a sabbatical. (Popsugar)

The People’s Choice Country Awards were last night. The fashion is predictably tacky but fun. I genuinely like Kelsea Ballerini’s Cavalli, though. That is a GREAT dress. (Go Fug Yourself)

Anna Delvey was eliminated from Dancing with the Stars, and she was pretty snide and rude in her exit interview. Here’s the thing, Anna Delvey isn’t interesting. Con people rarely are. They’re smoke and mirrors, and once the illusion is broken, there’s nothing left. Time to let this one go, I think. (Celebitchy)

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