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(45sec preview) BEFORE THE RECKONING: CALLING OUT "PRETENDIANISM" IN 2005 🌾⚡

Long before mainstream broadcasters and investigative documentary crews began sifting through birth certificates and genealogical archives, true grassroots urban Indigenous creators were in the trenches living the reality of identity erasure.

Back in 2005, while mainstream Canadian institutions falsely celebrated manufactured icons as the "first digital media pioneers," I wrote Sudden Aboriginal—an angst-fueled, satirical counter-narrative confronting performative identity, blood quantum politics, and institutional gatekeeping in real time.

We didn't wait for permission from colonial award committees then, and we don't wait for them now.

📖 EXCERPT FROM "SUDDEN ABORIGINAL" (2005):

"Sudden Aboriginal why do you hate me?

Sudden Aboriginal all I really do is envy you!

Sudden Aboriginal you are lucky!

I wish I had the chance to walk in your shoes!

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