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Visions of winnipeg This week’s feature story fits neatly into the somewhat nebulous goal we’re always striving for here at The Uniter - which is to tell stories about this city, of those who love it and who are working to make it better. Of those infamous five Ws, the who and the what of Winnipeg often intermingle, and in this feature piece, there’s a little more space to explore the nuances of this place. New visions for the city trail through this issue. In this week’s Critipeg, Sarah Jo Kirsch reviews a collection of truly supernatural conceptions of this city. Davis Plett profiles two events that offer necessary supplements to programming on a night designed to get Winnipeggers out into the city. Nuit Noire highlights the need for more art events planned by and for Black audiences. And Nuit Raunch brings what is often a personal experience into a slightly more public space with feminist porn screenings. Stories of locals working to improve Winnipeg for all citizens truly shine in the city section. This week, Alexandra Neufeldt talks to organizers who are rallying for better conversations around mental illness and Manitobans living with disabilities. On campus, Ryan Haughey has collected some advice for students who want to be writers. And even closer to home, for some, is the question of how changing cannabis legislation will affect those living on campus. As you flip through these pages (or click and scroll, per your personal preference!), I hope you enjoy meeting some people of Winnipeg and getting to know the various corners of the city they’re working to improve.

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Whose House? JEANNE's House

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Jeanne Randolph at her home in the Exchange District

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Psychiatrist, cultural theorist, author and performance artist Jeanne Randolph lives in an updated heritage building in Winnipeg’s Exchange District. “I am so delighted we found this place. 1 Nothing could pry me out of here. It’s just so great to live here, even though this is kind of standard yuppie.” Beside her trusty typewriter sits an empty bottle. “It’s an Irish whisky called Writers’ Tears, and it’s quite … it’s quite tasty.” Her preferred cocktail: martini, dry. Her preferred writing instrument: pencil. “I like to write with a pencil, because you can erase the bad stuff.” Born in West Virginia, Randolph grew up in Texas before bouncing through Georgia, 2 3 Illinois, New York and California. She first crossed into the Great White North in 1970. “I came to Toronto as part of the draft dodger era.” Her lungs, however, couldn’t stand the smog. “I did research: Winnipeg has the best air. You’d think Vancouver, but Vancouver gets these temperature inversions and kill off people that are weak like me.” But it wasn’t just the air quality. It was the quality of people. 4 5 “I knew all about Winnipeg, and I’d been visiting for 10 years, visiting friends here, so I just told my late partner, ‘We’re moving.’” 1) Inanimate Menagerie 4) vintage standard Randolph mentored many a Winnipeg “For years and years, I’ve collected things that “I have to get it tuned up. The keys have heavy-hitter through Mentoring Artists for are unpalatable to most people, and that’s what gotten loose.” Women’s Art (MAWA) including Di Brandt, you’ll see. The animals – aren’t they lovely?” Sigrid Dahl and Diana Thorneycroft. Her 5) Bombshell own work predominantly revolves around 2) REPTILIAN RUMBLe “Oh my gosh. (Wittgenstein) ruined my life when fictocriticism and slide-based free-associative “They’ve lived together for decades, and then he conveyed that language does not have a clear, performance art, though she has always main- I came in here one day, and Barmaid had firm reference. Language is relative to all the tained a psychiatric practice “part-part-time.” practically taken out Mermaid’s eye. And then people who are speaking it. They know what the Randolph’s five roommates keep her com- about a year later, I put them together again, assumption is, they think they know what the pany. Two cats, Slinky and Sundin, skulk and Mermaid took out Barmaid’s eye. An eye definition is, but they’re creating a cluster of about; the latter named after long-time cap- for an eye.” language meaning, and it may not overlap at all tain of the Toronto Maple Leafs Mats Sundin. with anything else.” A pair of snappy turtles in their 30s, Mer- 3) The book that keeps on giving maid and Barmaid, swim separately in the “For many years, I continued to go back to 6) natural filters bathroom for their own safety. Her mature Civilization and its Discontents by Freud, and I “I think they’re taking all of the benzene out of and stocky canine protector, Missy, wheezes think I’ve digested as much of that, including my the air. I do love tending plants.” beside her. critique of it, as possible. I migrate from themes 6 to themes. There’s a lot of Wittgenstein here.” ARTS Nuit Noire AfroPeg celebrates Black artists Third-annual Black Space Winnipeg event challenges Nuit Blanche programming

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“Obviously, Nuit Blanche wasn’t named Nuit Blanche is indicative of larger issues ... after white people,” local poet Chim- in Winnipeg’s arts scenes. wemwe Undi says. She performed in “The importance of Nuit Noire comes

Black Space Winnipeg’s Nuit Noire down to support and exposure of a his- SUPPLIED PHOTO event in 2017 and believes that the event’s torically underrepresented community of name holds an implicit challenge to Nuit artists who have tremendous talent and Rebecca Simiyu is one of the artists featured as part of Nuit Noire. Blanche and its festival-goers. continue to be overlooked based on the “It draw(s) attention to the lack Eurocentrism of ... the arts community Emerging Artists Program, which was tributions of Black people to culture of diversity in a lot of other Nuit Blanche in Winnipeg,” she says. amazing, and we had over 30 artists,” and politics that go unrecognized and spaces.” “Most of the main gallery spaces in Potashnik says. uncompensated. In 2016, Black Space Winnipeg Winnipeg do not prioritize or book inter- Although she says anyone is welcome “If you look at artistic spaces and com- co-founder Alexa Joy Potashnik initiated national Black artists or give local Black to attend Nuit Noire, Potashnik is orga- munity-building spaces, the amount of Nuit Noire, an Afrocentric showcase of artists the opportunity to showcase their nizing the event fundamentally for the work that especially Black queer women visual artists and performers held this work in a ... professional setting.” Black community. She wants to see Nuit do in those spaces is disproportionate to year at aceartinc. in association with She says that even when these spaces Noire and its celebration of Black artists our actual numbers,” she says. Nuit Blanche. She was frustrated with do represent Black artists, they are still and audiences expand far beyond the “So I think Nuit Noire allows us to the lack of programming by and for usually run by white organizers. walls of aceartinc. and the timeline of have a space to gather as a community BIPOC folks at Nuit Blanche and the “A lot of the artists(,) curators and Nuit Blanche. of Black people and also forces (Nuit lackluster approach to outreach on the programmers are white and do not come “The big, long-term goal would (be) Blanche) at large to reckon with the fact part of festival organizers. from our communities, so I’ll always to make this a festival that takes over the that we do exist.” “Just because you don’t know other question authenticity when it comes to entire city through gallery spaces, muse- communities doesn’t mean people aren't programming cultural events,” she says. ums and more. We’d like to see a gallery Nuit Noire takes place on Sept. 29 doing the work. (T)hey’re just not receiv- Nuit Noire has proved to be a hit. also dedicated for Black artists,” she says. at aceartinc. (290 McDermot Ave.) ing the platform,” she says. “Last year ... we were awarded Undi believes Nuit Noire is an from 6 p.m. to 1 a.m. For Potashnik, the lack of diversity at second place for the Nuit Blanche opportunity to acknowledge the con- Arts and culture briefs

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Manitoba Podcast Festival Ingmar Bergman The inaugural Manitoba Podcast Festival is kicking retrospective off at The Park Theatre on Sept. 30. Taking place from noon to 4 p.m., the afternoon event will feature To celebrate the 100th birthday of Swedish filmmaker panels with local podcast hosts, producers, traditional Ingmar Bergman, the Winnipeg Film Group will host broadcasters and DIY media folks educating on how Twilight Room of the Soul, a month-long series of his to get started in the audio medium. Speakers include films beginning on Sept. 28. Films screened include Sam Thompson (Witchpolice Radio) and Ashley The Seventh Seal, Persona, Wild Strawberries, The Bieniarz (Winnipeg Music Project). Admission is $5. Virgin Spring, Shame, The Magician, Hour of the Wolf and The Passion of Anna.

Flash Photographic Prairie Nurse at Festival Prairie Theatre Exchange

The fifth-annual Flash Photographic Festival PTE will kick off their 2018-19 season begins Oct. 1. The event showcases work from with Prairie Nurse, written by Marie Beath more than 90 photographers at 33 venues across Badian. The play follows two nurses from the the city throughout the month of October. Events Philippines working on a two-year contract happening as part of the fest include workshops on in rural Saskatchewan in the 1960s. The cast photography for social media, drone photography includes Stephanie Sy and Dutchess Cayetano and street photography. Events are either free or and runs from Oct. 3 to 21. Student admission cost a $2 donation to Winnipeg Harvest. is $33 to $44, or $10 at last call.

Free admission at the Lights of the North WAG (and Nuit Blanche)! Canada’s largest Chinese lantern festival continues at Red River Exhibition Park until Oct. 14. Organized On Sept. 29, admission at the Winnipeg Art Gallery will in celebration of Winnipeg’s relationship with twin be free from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. as part of national Culture city Chengdu, China, the event features massive Days. The gallery will reopen from 6 p.m. to 4 a.m. for lights displays, 3D laser and water projections and a massive Nuit Blanche party involving retro arcade performances by Chengdu acrobats and dancers. machines and ‘80s music. Admission to the party is $10. General admission is $20. 6 The Uniter // september 27, 2018 Parallel CKUW top 30 Prairies: September 17—23, 2018 Stories of TW = This Week // LW = Last Week // ! = Local content // * = Canadian Content Manitoba TW LW c artist Album Label 1 1 ! Madeline Roger Cottonwood Self-Released Speculative 2 6 ! The Lytics Float On LHM 3 3 * Pink Noise House Of Cards Sounds Escaping Fiction 4 2 ! Human Music Human Music Self-Released 5 4 * Not Of Hypocritic Oath No List 6 5 * Cub Brave New Waves Session Artoffact Darren Ridgley and 7 7 Johnny Marr Call The Comet Sire/Voodoo Adam Petrash supplied photo 8 24 * Glen Hall Bernie Koenig & M.J. Idzerda Three Way Conversations Slam 224 pages 9 9 Red Baraat Sound The People Rhyme & Reason golf tournament. Casual and quick 10 12 ! Adiethylamide This Is A Secret Self-Released Enfield & Wizenty -witted, the work bubbles with quirk 11 8 * Bison Earthbound No List Sept. 25, 2018 worthy of a good chortle. 12 10 * The Faps Grimelda Double Lunch Another rural close encounter of 13 11 Black Moth Super Rainbow Panic Blooms Rad Cult note in the collection is Brandon- Sarah Jo Kirsch 14 RE ! Housepanther Club Soda Lows Self Released based Patrick Johanneson’s Vincent 15 NE * Peripheral Vision More Songs About Error And Shame Self-Released and Charlie. The story explores the Features reporter @cacophonewpg 16 16 ! Bartley Knives Lone Goose New Wild concept of alien telepathy and memory 17 15 * Rae Spoon Bodies Of Water Coax manipulation from inside a mind Winnipeg-based writers Darren Ridgley descending into dementia. Johanneson 18 13 * Dennis Ellsworth Things Change Pyramid Scheme and Adam Petrash put out a call to finds an artful balance between suspense 19 19 Spiritualized And Nothing Hurt Fat Possum authors of short speculative fiction “with and sentimentality and adds a soupçon 20 19 ! SC Mira Keep Crawling Sugar Gator deep ties to the province.” of Men in Black for good measure. 21 NE * Sue Foley The Ice Queen Stoney Plain What they’ve ended up with is From alien technology to human, 22 NE Gurrumul Djarimirri Skinnyfish a kaleidoscope of style and subject The Comments Gaze Also Into You by 23 NE * Bend Sinister Foolish Games Cordova Bay matter. Echoes of iconic storylines David Jón Fuller could easily be an 24 RE ! 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The images are With swaths of demons, aliens, zombies, stark, grotesque, and the ending hits like snake oil salesmen, fortune tellers, old glassy textures surrounding it. a brick. magics and new, there is something in But when you’ve got the ear, overly-referential hero wor- In one instance, the Manitoba ties these Parallel Prairies for everyone. are woven in the province’s literary ship can easily become utterly-enjoyable homage, and history. Sheldon Birnie’s They Just Want McNally Robinson Booksellers (1120 Grant Samms has the song-writing chops and pop instincts to to Play the Game is set in Manawaka, Ave.) hosts the Parallel Prairies: Stories of back up all this neon nostalgia. a place first invented by 20th century Manitoba Speculative Fictions launch on bastion of Canadian short fiction Oct. 11 at 7 p.m. with editors/contributors supplied photo The album is blinding, bulletproof and endlessly listen- Margaret Laurence. Adam Petrash and Darren Ridgley. Birnie paints a caddy’s portrait of C. Samms able. It employs its 10-tonne drums, popping bass and weapons-grade synths to take you on a kaleidoscopic a competitive small town golfer as his Synthetic Properties trip through a Memphis-designed madhouse. And it’s got facilities are hijacked by curious aliens during the final round of the Manawaka Independent some intriguing things to say about digital life, love and human (and near-human) nature to boot. At first glance, it’s tempting to classify C. Samms’ Synthetic Properties as a piece of particularly tight, Many of the tracks are instrumentals, with the swirling, energetic vaporwave – a more tastefully orchestrated chest-swelling “Hex” ranking among the album’s best. strain of the genre birthed from the internet’s However, Samms is more than capable of writing a Broadview Manor neon guts. good old fashioned pop song too: the aforementioned “Valley Uncanny” is another highlight, riding enormous 120 Donald Street However, besides some shallow aesthetic and sonic tics, synthetic bass and a bone-quaking vocal. the album has less to do with vaporwave and more to do Now renting 1 and 2 bedroom units with its more streamlined forebearer – ‘80s synth pop. 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The queer space of Evolution Eileen Myles’ visit is an opportunity to gather context in community

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managing editor @anachips

In the absence of dedicated queer spaces, visits from distinguished national or international guests can be a catalyst to create – even for just one night – a place for queer communities to gather and celebrate. On Oct. 3, Eileen Myles will be in Win- nipeg to launch their latest book, Evolution, at aceartinc. Myles recognizes the importance of queer cultural gatherings, and not just in Winnipeg. "I read at Greenlight (Book- store in) Brooklyn, which is right in the middle of New York, but still, it's the same phenomenon," Myles says. At "some point when I was signing books, somebody just looked at me really excitedly – she was really young – and she was just like, 'there's so many lesbians here!' A bomb, a queer bomb had been dropped on her poor brain. So it was great." Evolution's launch and Myles’ visit are being funded by the University of Win- nipeg Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies as well as aceartinc. Dr. Roewan Crowe, associate professor of Women’s and Gender Studies, also organized Myles’ last three visits here, beginning in 2009. "I lament the absence of a devoted queer space. And I think there’s a yearning here in Winnipeg for that," Crowe says. "And certainly (QPOC Winnipeg) is doing a great job creating events. But more people need to come together to make these kinds of spaces, and for me, what kind of spaces are created are those that are intergenerational, that create connections for queer poets, queer writers, and that can also connect to the histories of queer writing. We need to know our poetic histories, right? Where we come from, what we’re writing from." PHOTO BY PEGGY O'BRIEN Myles may be best known as a poet, but Eileen Myles' work spans genres, including poetry, prose and photography. their writing spans genres including fiction (Chelsea Girls, Cool for You), art writing The Winnipeg launch of Evolution also Before Donald Trump was elected, While the content of Evolution mixes (The Importance of Being Iceland) and even provides an opportunity for visual art and "when we all thought we were going to have poetics and politics, the act of creating a dog memoir (The Irony of the Leash). writing to come together, as Myles' reading a female president," Myles says, their friend a launch event such as the one on Oct. 3 "I think it looks like I do a lot, because at aceartinc will happen among Steven Zoe Leonard’s 1992 poem titled "I want a does the same. I go off in a lot of directions," Myles says. Leyden Cochrane's show, Shining Tapestry. president" – most known for the opening "I like to make these kind of feminist They're working more in visual mediums at "I can’t wait to feel what it's like to have line "I want a dyke for president" – received interventions to promote these kinds of the moment, which dovetail nicely with the Eileen's words mingling with Steven’s tap- renewed attention. events," Crowe says. launch of Evolution. estries," Crowe says. "In Steven’s work, he’s Myles says the poem was inspired by "I think the work of making context "Something that’s happened to me talking about the loss of his mother and loss their "actual presidential campaign" in that people can write and make art from lately is that Instagram has made it so the more generally, and one of the early poems 1991-92, when they ran (unsuccessfully) is a daily practice. We have to keep making pictures I take are getting distributed, and in Eileen’s book, in Evolution, is about the against Bill Clinton. these spaces, and so we need to promote I love it," they say. loss of their mother … There's this poetic In 2016, "I want a president" was turned these spaces and let people know they exist, "Instead of having a book party (in treatment of grief and loss by both of them." into an art installation in New York's High and that we have always existed, and so it's New York), I'm going to have an art open- Myles describes Evolution as a book of Line park, and Leonard asked Myles to important, because this is the context that ing, and that's going to be kind of queer, poems framed by the loss of their mother update their campaign for a public event we write from, and this fuels us, it gives inviting people to come and celebrate this (and includes their mother's own words), surrounding the piece. us energy, it makes our writing stronger. book, too. And I’ve got one of my photos but it's also interspersed with other forms, "I thought to update a presidential cam- It makes our community stronger." on the cover of the poetry book, so I'm including an opening essay that addresses paign that you didn't win would be to stand trying to make it all kind of one art, or one the current political climate in the inside of it 20 years later. And so I basically Eileen Myles will be in town to launch Evo- gesture – which I think it is. Separating United States. wrote an acceptance speech. So that’s in lution on Oct. 3 at aceartinc. from 7 to 9 p.m. visual art and writing makes less sense than "When I say essays, they're actu- the middle of the book," Myles says. It's the excitement people have about them ally things that I wrote to speak “more of what I would do if I was running being together." publicly," Myles says. this country." ARTS

Porn in public “It’s this really neat form of media. We basically all consume it ... and no Nuit Raunch showcases one ever talks about it ... We don’t create dialogue around (porn), which queer pornography means we’re not creating dialogue around healthy sexuality.” Houston says pornography has davis plett @ unknowing_cloud always had a complicated relationship to privacy. They trace the history of arts and culture reporter pornography from the privacy of erot- ica to the public spaces of cinemas, This Saturday, Kate Sinclaire, a Winnipeg with pornography eventually returning to director and producer of the adult cinema privacy when video and later the internet site Ciné Sinclaire, will pack people into arrived. her third-floor Exchange District studio However, even as pornography con- to watch pornography. sumption became a more hidden activity, The format for consuming pornogra- Houston says a different kind of porn phy might seem outside the mainstream, began to emerge that required a different but so is the content. Sinclaire’s Nuit mode of distribution, beginning in the Raunch event will screen what Sinclaire ’80s. calls “queer/feminist/ethical porn.” “Queer filmmakers, avante-garde film- “I try and make porn that represents makers, anti-porn third-wave feminists the way people actually have sex and do it who were sex-positive started making in a non-oppressive way,” she says. their own art and their own porn, but Nuit Raunch features nine films by (they weren’t) going to get distribution or national and international directors who anything like that. It started as this under- PHOTO BY CALLIE LUGOSI want to make queer porn with femi- ground movement.” Kate Sinclaire in her studio, where she'll hold screenings for Nuit Raunch nist ethics. One of these filmmakers is These filmmakers screened their work Shine Louise Houston, a San Fran- publicly, eventually leading to an explo- to a bunch of different directors and their porn in public is really fun. cisco-based director and producer of sion of queer and porn festivals in the work and different concepts, sexualities “Watching it together is almost like the CrashPadSeries.com. early 2000s. For Houston, Nuit Raunch is (and) gender expressions.” same feeling you get when you go to Star “Our mission (is) exploring and reflect- part of this tradition of sharing queer and Houston says putting porn in public Wars on the first night, and everybody is ing current ideas on gender and sexuality ethical porn on the big screen. lets filmmakers and audiences create a like ‘yah!’” they say. and gender expression,” they say. Sinclaire believes this is a way to help dialogue around what pornography is and Sinclaire believes that public screenings people find porn they might not have even could be. Nuit Raunch is a free, 18+ event. of ethical porn can introduce audiences to known they wanted to see. “It’s a way for the genre to take itself Two screenings (at 8:30 and 10 p.m.) will a different way of talking about sexuality. A “really neat thing about (porn) being more seriously and to push what it means be held on Sept. 29 on the third floor of 290 “One of the most exciting parts of in public, especially feminist and ethically to be an adult film,” they say. “What can McDermot Ave. More details are available (screening porn) in public is that it breaks made porn and queer porn, is that people its purpose be in society? It’s not just in the Nuit Raunch Facebook event. that private, shameful edge that people maybe don’t know it exists,” she says. “It’s everything that you see on PornHub.” have around porn,” she says. really a great way to introduce an audience Most of all, Houston says, watching

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Which of the following statements about Winnipeg are true? Winnipeg is the coldest city on Earth. We also have the highest number of funeral homes per capita and the highest concentration of sleepwalkers. Our Legislative Building is a temple to the Greek god Hermes, whose gilded likeness stands atop its dome, where MLAs held séances to contact the dead alongside Arthur Conan Doyle. Canada’s most important labour How artists form strike began in a secret gay bath- house hidden beneath a Winnipeg our lore, legends barbershop.

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(inset) The legendary 1919 Winnipeg General Strike was further enhanced by Noam Gonick's short film1919. (right) Greg MacPherson points out how much we learn about city spaces (like those in Toronto) through the media.

Homer Simpson and Winnie says that Winnipeg’s “essence” is, at 1919? It’s Chinese-run, you can get ture “will be there, presumably, for the Pooh are from here. least, up for grabs. your shirts tailored and hair cut, you the next 100 years situated next to Whether these statements are true “New York’s is more solidified, can buy dim sum and fireworks, but the busiest block in Winnipeg, traf- is perhaps less important than the because so many people have been there might be some sketchy sexual fic-wise. degree to which they are true. Win- working on it,” Gonick says. “Win- things going on in the basement. “I’m excited to be doing some- nipeg, like any city, is known by its nipeg’s is more open to interpreta- What would’ve happened had the thing that’s not in the rarified mu- inhabitants through a web of local tion, because there’s less consensus strike shifted into this place?” seum context, or the experimental lore and legends. But it’s a city that on what the Winnipeg ‘thing’ is. Gonick’s films have been screened or queer cinema context, but doing spends an unusual amount of time Those artists who have made their at the National Gallery and MoMA. something that helps anybody stum- But 1919’s impact on local legend bling by to learn their local history.” goes beyond its status as a key piece "True to the spirit of we can criticize us, of Winnipeg queer cinema. Mixing pop and politics but you can’t, Winnipeg’s self-image is In 1999, “a crystal meth-addled That emphasis on the political re- flight attendant in the sauna got mains a frequent element in Winni- much darker than how others see us." angry and burnt the place down,” peg art and music. Singer-songwrit- Gonick says. “The Winnipeg Free er and community organizer Greg Press reported that it had been the MacPherson sees the political reali- mythologizing itself. Whether it’s mark have been so unusual that birthplace of the General Strike, ties of life in Winnipeg as essential to John K Samson soliloquizing about it opens the field up to others in which was just a weird meme the city’s character. Cruise Night or Guy Maddin weav- novel ways.” from my film. They never printed “What Winnipeg has that other ing tales around If Day, it’s clear that Gonick’s 1997 short film 1919 is a retraction.” cities don’t have is a long history of Winnipeg artists make a lot of art set in a steam sauna beneath a bar- Now, Gonick is working on a conflict, segregation and division,” about Winnipeg. bershop during the outbreak of the public monument at Main Street MacPherson says. “The way our city It’s a practice that Andrew Kear, Winnipeg General Strike. Riots spill and Market Avenue commemo- was initially laid out, with French on chief curator of the Winnipeg Art over into the shop and interrupt the rating the 100th anniversary of the one side, English on the other, In- Gallery, regards with skepticism. hidden gay trysts in the basement. General Strike. The sculpture, a digenous people pushed aside. The “Artists contribute to building While the events of the film are fic- replica of the iconic tipping streetcar Metis Rebellion. Class conflict, the stories and, I guess, myths about the tional, the historical backdrop and semi-submerged in pavement, is a General Strike. We’ve had a lot of places they live,” Kear says. “But I the barbershop are real. collaboration between Gonick and conflict in our founding DNA. think these stories and myths are the “The 1919 General Strike was the late Bernie Miller. “The economic growth of our city strongest, more interesting, and have always revered in my upbringing,” Gonick says there are major differ- was strange. We had that ‘Chicago longevity when they emerge without Gonick says (his father is labour ac- ences between making a film about of the North’ period, which sud- too much self-consciousness. tivist and former MLA Cy Gonick). the strike and creating a piece of denly stifled. It grew slowly. Even to “I think finding a Winnipeg ‘es- “I’d be in this 100-year-old-build- public art. present day, it’s a simmering kind of sence’ in all of it is a fool’s errand.” ing thinking, ‘What were the ramifi- “It’s making something for a growth.” cations here, two blocks away from mass audience, even more so than MacPherson sees those social fac- Bloody Saturday the Bloody Saturday on June 21, cinema,” Gonick says. The sculp- tors as reflections of the land our city Filmmaker and artist Noam Gonick is built on. The area near McPhillips Street between Selkirk and Leila known as "the break."

“It’s all built into the environ- racism, heartbreaking poverty and world do know what that is.” says he’s seen a reduction in things ment,” he says. “The long winter, the immense wealth, hot hot summers like violent crime. slow change into summer, the quick and the worst winters. As seen on TV “The whole Katz era, development change to winter again. It’s the same “We’re right in the middle and Unlike Gonick and Vermette, at the expense of everything, low tax- as our two rivers, these massive wa- full of extremes. We don’t need to MacPherson isn’t originally from es … that’s hopefully finally shifting tersheds, slow-moving forces collid- make up anything, and still there Winnipeg. Born in Nova Scotia, to something more sustainable and ing at The Forks. It’s very dramatic, are many unbelievable stories he moved here as a teen, which people-friendly.” but slow.” to tell.” gives him a different perspective on True to the spirit of we can crit- It’s a level of civic self-critique that the city. icize us, but you can’t, Winnipeg’s Uncomfortable truths many Winnipeggers engage in, but “When I first came here, I hated self-image is much darker than Those darker social factors, so often don’t tolerate from outsiders. When it,” MacPherson says. “The year I how others see us. Wayne Koesten- the focus of activism, make their Maclean’s pointed out Winnipeg’s got here, a massive storm shut the baum is a poet, cultural critic and way into art as well. Katherena Ver- glaring racism problem, there was city down. I’d never experienced distinguished professor of English mette’s 2016 debut novel The Break much local pushback. something like that, the sheer pow- at City University of New York’s focuses on multiple generations of The debate about opening Por- er of the Winnipeg winter and the graduate school. Koestenbaum, Indigenous women living through tage and Main to pedestrians “is the deep freeze. who wrote the introductory essay racism, misogyny and violence in perfect example of that,” Macpher- “I collected comic books reli- for the Criterion Collection edi- Winnipeg. The book’s settings, son says of the beloved but neglect- giously, so I’d go downtown all the tion of Guy Maddin’s My Winnipeg, such as the intersection of Selkirk ed intersection. “Polls say the ma- time. I got chased around by kids is effusive in his adoration Avenue and McPhillips Street or jority of Winnipeggers don’t want and attacked on the street. It was a of Winnipeg. “the break” (the strip of undevel- to change it, but I’m absolutely oped land west of McPhillips) be- convinced that if it changed, those come cosmic nexus points for her same people would celebrate it. "Vermette’s expression of Winnipeg as 'an exercise characters. If anyone criticized it after it was in cognitive dissonance' equally fits this mold, Vermette, whose poetry antholo- changed, they’d be the first to say, gy North End Love Songs and doc- ‘Get the hell out of here.’” as does MacPherson’s illustrationof 'two slow- umentary This River also reference This illustrates a touchiness with Winnipeg topics, says her work how Winnipeg is portrayed in art moving forces colliding.'" wasn’t intended to mythologize the and media: we don’t want peo- city. ple from elsewhere to get a bad “I don’t think there’s any need to image of us. different era back then, with more “I find Winnipeg utterly fascinat- mythologize,” she says. “I love this We believe “nobody in the world violence and criminal activity … I ing and alluring,” he says. place. I also hate it. (Winnipeg) is really knows what Winnipeg is, so felt like Winnipeg was a very pow- “I could imagine myself renting an exercise in cognitive dissonance. you can mythologize it however you erful and dangerous sort of place in an apartment for a month in Win- I think this has always been a place want,” Gonick says. “But the truth some ways.” nipeg and writing a novel called Lost of incredible contradictions – full is, there is a documented history of Through his involvement in com- in Winnipeg. I lived in Baltimore of strong diversity and riddled with Winnipeg and people around the munity development, MacPherson for a year. Winnipeg reminds me of Continued on the next page. Continued from previous page.

Baltimore. A second city that has more advantages than a first city.” Perhaps this points to why Winnipeg- gers are so protective of the image we paint of ourselves, or why the artists who paint that picture do it so self-conscious- ly: we’re painfully aware of the gaze of others. “The first time I went to Toronto as (an) adult, I walked around thinking, ‘I know all these street names,’” MacPher- son says. “’How is that possible? I know this building, these sights. I’m completely at home at a city I’ve never lived in.’ That’s because the CBC, the CTV, all the corporations in our country are based there. So the lens (Canadians) see ourselves through is a Toronto lens. “At the time, that wasn’t happening in Winnipeg at all … I remember feeling it was an important thing to do. ‘I’m going to write a song about the time I was stuck on a bus in West St. James and Orest’s barbershop blew up.’”

Making the myth For Koestenbaum, what those artistic elements inform is image of, and love for, Winnipeg. “Just yesterday … I told a person who declared that he was from ‘West- ern Canada’ that I loved Winnipeg,” This sculpture at the intersection of Market Avenue and Lily Street is near the site of some of the most violent clashes between strikers and police during the 1919 General Strike. he says. “I ever exaggerated, I said, ‘I’ve spent a lot of time there,’ and then I corrected myself, ‘Actually I’ve only been there once, but I love Winnipeg so much, it feels like I’ve spent a lot of time there, absorbing its secretly bohemian atmosphere.’” The phrase “secretly bohemian” points to a theme that arises in all these conversations about Winnipeg’s mythologized identity: its duality. Outwardly square, secretly unconventional. Vermette’s expression of Winnipeg as “an exercise in cognitive dissonance” equally fits this mold, as does MacPherson’s illustration of “two slow-moving forces colliding.” Gonick, too, arrives at a sort of secret duality in Winnipeg’s rebellious spirit, pointing back to Riel’s rebellion. “That’s where I’d centre my Winnipeg mythology,” he says. “It’s almost an an- archic Métis upstart town that’s pushing back against colonial waves. Maybe that duality is why that, for a city so romanticized by its artists, the mythologized Winnipeg remains more elusive than, say, New York or Paris. Duality both defines us and makes us undefinable. How can we say Winnipeg is anything when we’re always simulta- neously the opposite? It’s what makes examining the “mythologized Winnipeg,” ultimately, a fool’s errand.

The Golden Boy perched atop the Manitoba Legislature Walking to support mental illness programming March for Mental Health celebrates individuals’ lived experiences

PHOTO BY KEELEY BRAUNSTEIN-BLACK Alexandra Neufeldt Angela Taylor (left) sitting on a panel about learning disabilities in Fort Rouge at Corydon Community Centre on Sept. 23 city reporter @Alexejneufeldt don’t think of it like a 100 per cent bad in the community is really important to be able to provide greater support so that On Sept. 29, Manitobans will gather out- thing. I don’t feel like it’s a black cloud, I us, and having the support of the commu- we don’t have people who fall in between side of the Legislative Building for the feel like it’s part of who I am, and it brings nity means a lot.” and are lost to us.” third-annual March for Mental Health, me gifts, it brings me strengths as well as VIRGO Consulting released a report According to a CBC article on Bricker’s an event which seeks “to celebrate the challenges, and (Alice) felt the same way.” in spring 2018 which “identified that death, Bricker had been hospitalized for community and increase awareness Prior to the march, Taylor says the event there are major gaps and underfunding suicide attempts three times in 10 days. around mental health and mental illness will include three speakers who have all in the mental health system as well as The last time he was released was in the in our community,” Angela Taylor says. played significant roles in destigmatizing in addictions,” Tara Brousseau-Snider, middle of the night, and he committed Taylor, founder of Inspire Community mental illness and addiction in Manitoba: executive director of Mood Disorders suicide shortly afterwards. Outreach, the organization that runs the Rachel Beazley of the Bell Let’s Talk cam- Manitoba, says. Brousseau-Snider says that in her march, says the idea came from a conver- paign, Andi Sharma with the Centre for Brousseau-Snider says that Mood experience, “we’ve come a long, long sation with her coworker. Addiction and Mental Health and com- Disorders Manitoba was particularly way” when it comes to reducing stigma, “My colleague Alice ... envisioned an munity organizer Michael Champagne. pleased with the recommendation to “but it still does exist.” event where it was more of a celebration After the walk, there will be a mental provide peer support in the emergency Both Taylor and Brousseau-Snider say than anything else, and so, (we) began to health resource fair, children’s entertain- room system. that supporting youth and having grass- talk about things and discussed what it ment and music from DJ Wanda G. “Thats been one of the big gaps that we routes organizations are key to making could look like and having speakers share Taylor says funds raised by those who have seen, people being discharged late lasting positive change for those with really positive stories about finding them- register for the march will go to cover at night, people being discharged with- mental health conditions. selves through mental illness,” Taylor says. the event costs and to Inspire’s youth out a plan, families maybe not knowing, She says it’s important to have cele- programming. and then individuals such as Reid Bricker The Winnipeg March for Mental Health bratory events that normalize the expe- “We’re not funded. We’re a community (dying) by suicide,” Brousseau-Snider says. will be held form 1 to 4:00 p.m. on Sept. rience of mental illness because “for me, organization run with and for the com- “So we really want to work with the clin- 29. See inspirecommunityoutreach.ca/ mental illness is part of who I am, and I munity,” Taylor says. “Making real change ical community and the community and winnipeg-march for more information.

CITY briefs

danelle granger // city editor @DANELLEGRANGER

UWinnipeg team Mental Illness Nonsuch Nuit Language partner West Awake raising money Awareness Week Blanche Celebration program needs The University of Winnipeg's McLuhan Symposium is happening UWinnipeg’s Global College has Mental Illness Awareness Week Nonsuch Brewing Co.'s scheduled volunteers on Friday Sept. 28 from 9:30 organized a team for the Ride for runs Oct. 1 to 7, and the University grand opening is planned for spring The English Language Program (ELP) a.m. to 4:30 p.m. It’s a day of Refuge, taking place this Saturday. of Winnipeg human resources 2019, but they are launching an interim at the University of Winnipeg is free communications and media Students, faculty members and friends department will host a Mental taproom for Nuit Blanche on Saturday, currently recruiting volunteer language programming, featuring creative are riding or walking to raise money Health Awareness workshop Sept. 29 at 125 Pacific Ave. The event partners for the fall term (September and scholarly presentations, film for World University Services Canada facilitated by Maureen Grace, a will feature seven of their own beers to December). The Language Partner screenings and a book launch. It’s to enable refugees to attend university Blue Cross (EFAP) Employee and on tap, including three never-before- Program recruits volunteers (students, free admission and is a come-and- in Canada. The team is 75 per cent of Family Assistance Program provider released brews. Fireside Design has faculty members and other interested go environment. There will also be the way to its fundraising goal and on Oct. 3 from 12 to 1:00 p.m. in also helped create a limited-time parties) who are fluent English speakers several presenters throughout has raised the most funds among the Room 2M70. There are only 40 seats lighting installation. They will be open to meet with students from the ELP. the day. 20 university teams across Canada in available, so contact Pamela Stanton from 3 p.m. to midnight. Contact 204.982.1151, elpstudentlife@ Ride for Refuge. You can support their at 204.789.4230 or p.stanton@ uwinnipeg.ca or stop by office 1C18 efforts at rideforrefuge.org/location/ uwinnipeg.ca to reserve a spot. to apply. winnipeg.

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Negotiating for quality of life Locked Out of Life campaign focuses on human rights complaint and mediation

ALEXANDRA NEUFELDT

CITY REPORTER @AlexEJNeufeldt

For Tyson Sylvester and Amy Hampton, who both have cerebral palsy (CP), two years of work fighting for their rights to the support systems necessary for them PHOTO BY KEELEY BRAUNSTEIN-BLACK to participate in society are on the brink of paying off. David Kron, executive director of he Cerebral Palsy Association of Manitoba CP refers to a variety of birth conditions caused by damage to or but an investigation found that there due to the fact that “the government is mediation, because we hope to have abnormal development of the parts of were grounds to the complaint and rec- reluctant, often, to create new programs non-adversarial conversations with the brain that control body movement ommended that the parties go through and to provide additional services and the Province of Manitoba,” Sala says. and muscle co-ordination. It does not mediation. If any party declines, the supports to persons with disabilities.” “Essentially, now the ball is in their affect cognitive development or alter life case will go to a hearing. While many people with physical court to decide if they want to have expectancy but can affect speech and To raise awareness about the lack disabilities do not need extensive care, those conversations with us outside of movement. of services provided to adults with they may still need more than is offered. the formal human rights process and ... David Kron, executive director of the physical disabilities, Tyson and Amy For example, Kron says “for a small if they don’t want to mediate with my Cerebral Palsy Association of Manitoba have worked with CPAM to create the number of my folks with (CP), you can’t clients, then we would go to the hear- (CPAM), says the supports available Locked Out of Life campaign. leave them alone; they cant open a door ing.” to minors with physical disabilities are Kron says since the campaign launch, if there’s a fire, they can’t change the Sala says that the team’s goal for quite good, even if they aren’t perfect, “I’ve certainly had more calls to the channel ... Cognitively, they’re fine, but mediation is threefold: that the services but those services disappear once a per- office from individuals with and with- physically, they’re unable to do those provided to children with physical son turns 18. out CP that say, ‘Yes, you’re right, we simple daily tasks.” disabilities are continued through “It’s almost that you’re cured at the need to move forward.’” Sala says that there are two options adulthood; services are distributed age of 18, as far as government services Because the complaint focuses on a for adults with physical disabilities in transparently and according to need; go,” Kron says. systemic problem, Joëlle Pastora Sala, need of assistance: homecare, which and the approach is made in Manitoba, Sylvester and Hampton filed a Sylvester and Hampton’s lawyer, says provides basic medical services and allowing adults with physical disabili- complaint with the Manitoba Human the outcome will not just serve her is capped at 55 hours per week; and a ties to contribute to their province. Rights Commission (MHRC) on the clients, but all adults with physical dis- personal care home for those who need basis of age discrimination and ableism abilities who need additional services. more hours of care. in the Provincial Government of Man- “We wanted to shed a light on the Personal care homes largely cater itoba and Winnipeg Regional Health opportunities missed or the opportu- to seniors, “so for individuals who are Authority’s distribution of supports to nities lost for our members with CP,” young, like my clients Tyson and Amy, To learn more about the Locked people with physical disabilities. Kron says. “But it’s also other folks with that’s completely inappropriate ... and Out of Life campaign, visit When Sylvester and Hampton orig- disabilities, whether its muscular dys- that takes away their quality of life and lockedoutoflife.com/#about-the- campaign. inally made their complaint in July trophy or MS or just the lack of services excludes them from society,” Sala says. of 2016, the provincial government for adults in Manitoba.” “My clients were pleased that declared it “frivolous and vexatious,” Sala says lack of services is likely (MHRC) did recommend to go to

Wesmen Recap

danielle doiron

copy and style editor @dMdoiron

The Winnipeg Wesmen women's soccer team came close to but couldn't clinch their first win of the regular season this past weekend. The squad faced brutal conditions on Saturday, as the Ralph Cantafio Soccer Complex played host to driving rain, strong winds and the persistent Calgary Dinos. The visitors quickly made their way on the board, scoring twice within the first seven minutes of the match. Shae-Lynn Dodds later netted the lone Wesmen goal (her third of the season), but the Dinos retaliated, scoring twice more to take the game 4-1. On Sunday, the Wesmen squared off against the last-place Lethbridge Pronghorns. Winnipeg maintained a 1-0 lead through most of the game, thanks to a well-placed Dodds goal in the 33rd minute. The Pronghorns, however, fought back, scoring in the final minutes of the match to earn their first result of PHOTOS BY daniel crump the season in a 1-1 draw. The Wesmen take to the field to face off against the Canada West Prairie rival Calgary Dinos on Sept. 22. CAMPUS The Uniter // september 27, 2018 15

It's heads up and all hands on deck as the ball swings in on a Dinos corner during the Sept. 22 match.

Pronghorns defender Ellie Kabayama and Wesmen forward Shae-Lynn Dodds jockey for a ball in the air on Sept. 23. Shae-Lynn Dodds keeps the ball out of the reach of Pronghorns defender Raeleen Vanden Dungen. CAMPUS Weed on campus: new policies following new legislation What are ‘weed’ going to do?

ryan haughey

campus reporter @ryanshares illustration by RYAN GINTER Weed will officially be legalized in problem in the past. Canada on Oct. 17, 2018. However, Though this is for safety reasons, and cooking with cannabis. Trotman within or outside of the rules, we want the Cannabis/Marijuana section of the Trotman says, it presents a challenge explains this is because kitchens in resi- to ensure the safety of our students by University of Winnipeg Campus Living for students who do choose to consume dence are in shared areas. sending the message and opening the Contract sets restrictions that make it cannabis products to find a safe and legal “Our facilities have many people liv- discussion about cannabis use.” difficult for students - especially those place to do so. ing in residence, including children,” she Kevin Rosen, the executive director of living in residence - to consume cannabis “Allowing students to smoke inside says. “Our lounges are attached to the marketing and communications at the U products. their dorm rooms could be a potential kitchens, so we want to make sure that of W, would like to remind students that Jennifer Trotman, the campus living safety hazard,” Steven Klassen, a U of W everyone is welcome and inclusive in our the consumption of cannabis products is director at the University of Winnipeg student says. “They should create some community.” not permitted anywhere on campus. (U of W), says even though the legaliza- sort of area to allow students to consume Trotman encourages students who do “The University of Winnipeg has tion of marijuana next month treads new cannabis in a safe environment.” choose to use cannabis to use Canada’s a no-smoking policy, which prohibits ground, the U of W will closely follow “Since marijuana impairs the ability Lower Risk Cannabis Use Guidelines smoking and vaping on campus. Provin- the rules of the provincial legislation to drive, (these safe spaces for residents as a tool to stay safe. Some tips within cial law also prohibits smoking cannabis while also taking an open and transpar- to consume cannabis), should be in close the guidelines include being educated in in public places, including on sidewalks. ent stance toward marijuana use. proximity to the dorms,” Klassen says. identifying high- and low-risk cannabis It can’t be sold or advertised on campus,” According to the Campus Living The space should be “a well-ventilated products, as well as avoiding harmful Rosen says. Contract, students are prohibited from area with no immediate fire hazards to smoking practices. “smoking, vaping, bong use or any other ensure the safety of the participants.” “Our focus is on harm reduction, and Canada’s Lower Risk Cannabis Use Guide- cannabis inhalation. This extends to can- Klassen also says limiting access to the the best way to do that is to bring aware- lines can be found on the Canada Public nabis (use) for medicinal purposes.” area will ensure that only people who ness and educate our students as well,” Health Association’s website under “Policy Trotman says that in her experience, have permission and are legally permitted Trotman says. and Position Statements.” other forms of medicinal consumption, to consume cannabis will use the area. “Our focus is our students. Regardless such as capsule pills, have not been a The contract also prohibits baking of if it happens on or off our campus,

Advice for emerging writers at U of W How students can get started in the field of writing

ryan haughey

campus reporter @ryanshares

Recent graduates can sometimes have a “When I was younger, I remember, hard time finding a place to work that on more than one occasion, calling the supports them financially and contrib- artistic director at the Prairie Theatre utes to a career in writing. Professionals Exchange and just asking if I could sit in in the field and recent graduates agree on rehearsals, just because I wanted to be that students should get started on their there and see how (things) were done,” careers long before graduation. Drader says. Bryan Drader, a theatre and film pro- Jen Doerksen, a graduate from the U fessor at the University of Winnipeg (U of W and Red River College (RRC) joint of W), freelance writer, dramaturg and Creative Communications program, the executive director of the Manitoba offers their experiences as an example. illustration by gabrielle funk Association of Playwrights (MAP), says “I started working in the field (of writ- that even before thinking about gradu- ing) before I graduated from (U of W tions program at RRC, they had to write to remain curious and open to new ating and finding a job in the field, there and RRC). I started working as a reporter weekly blog posts for a project. experiences. are two main things students should do. for The Projector at Red River College as “I chose to do concert reviews. “Put yourself through the creative “Write. It’s insanely simple advice, but the arts and culture reporter,” they say. Honestly, I didn’t want to give up my challenge of trying something you it’s amazing how often I had to tell myself “It got me into the habit of writing every nightlife.” think might not interest you right away, that as a young writer,” Drader says. “The week – just sitting down and writing.” Doerksen says that finding a way to because you will definitely learn from it,” other side of that coin is that you have Doerksen’s current employment runs gain experience while delving into their they say. to get yourself out there in whatever way through many channels. They are an passion made for great practice. “The world really does want good you can.” editor for Stylus Magazine, they partially “Start with your attitude,” Doerksen stories. Work on your craft and get bet- “Ask, snoop, volunteer, send out run local music/video and content cre- says. “No matter what kind of work ter. If you have a good story, somebody (work),” Drader says. He advises stu- ation company BNB Studios, and they you’re doing, it’s important to feel good, will want to (work) with it,” Drader dents to get involved with some of the actively take freelance work, just to name or at least curious. Even if you’re appre- says, offering some motivational advice. many organizations out there that are a few things. hensive and scared, it’s important to feel “That’s the engine. The world wants good in students’ desired fields, even if it’s Doerksen mentions that throughout good about what you’re doing.” stories, and that’s where it starts with unpaid work. their time in the Creative Communica- Doerksen’s advice to students is your work as a storyteller.” The Uniter // september 27, 2018 17

Dumbbells or dogma? Finding spirituality in unusual places

NICOLE BROWNLEE

volunteer

Routines inescapably govern our every- CrossFit and SoulCycle provide a place day lives. How we get dressed, how we for people to belong, to release stress, to commute to work or school, how or when continuously work to push their limits and we eat and even how we fall asleep are to bond with others going through similar all mundane tasks that we accomplish experiences. These aspects mirror that of mechanically. Without thought or con- a place of worship without uncontrollable sciousness, we are able to move through- restraints on lifestyle choices, orientation out the day and meet expectations. or attire due to rigid beliefs. When we take time to focus on each The amount of freedom felt within ILLUSTRATION BY GABRIELLE FUNK duty and place importance in each action these fitness institutions foster spiritu- within a routine, this can be interpreted ality in a similar way as a traditional instead as ritual. Today, rituals are not religious setting. Therefore, I think that it can mean with a team as well as the amount of merely associated with religious groups, While in church you may be expected something different to every person who self-control you have within these work- but they do retain spiritual significance. to stay quiet, sit still and pay attention to experiences a deep connection with a rit- out programs enables you to discover In Tara Isabella Burton’s Vox article, maintain peace, in renovated industrial ual or a community. your own spirituality while building a “CrossFit is My Church,” she explores a buildings and dark rooms with pulsing There are no rigid rules regarding support system that embraces change and Harvard Divinity School report on how music, you are encouraged to make noise, spirituality, because you cannot contain strength, something religious institutions urban millennials, notorious for atheism, to be in constant motion and to be com- something that is immaterial. are struggling to keep up with. find a community and a sense of peace pletely absorbed with yourself. Though the prayers uttered in a Cross- within fitness programs, such as CrossFit Having control over your own speed, Fit gym or a SoulCycle class may not be in Nicole Brownlee is currently majoring in and SoulCycle. resistance or breathing pattern allows unison with a priest, the dress code may be Rhetoric, Writing, and Communications at However, the similarities between the you to embrace self-awareness, which I less modest, and there is no need to mem- the University of Winnipeg. architecture of religious worship and these believe can promote spirituality as well. orize any text, spirituality is empowered to workout classes reveal that though the Spirituality has no concrete definition grow, due to the strength of community setting of ritual and spirituality may have and is merely related to anything and ritual within these spaces. altered, they remain stronger than ever. concerning religion. Personal achievements experienced

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