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RezX Special Mini-Issue Covers Cultural Appropriation, Reconciliation and Race Relations
Posted On 10 May 2014
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Tag: assimilation, Bill Stevenson, Colby Tootoosis, colonization, Cultural Appropriation, decolonization, erica violet lee, FNUniv, FNUniv pow wow, genocide, indigenizing, indigenous, jason bird, Jay Bird, Lani Elliot, Race Relations, Racism, Ryan Peterman, Shauneen Pete, University of Regina, white privilege
RezX Magazine has just released a special mini-edition focused around “Cultural Identity” and many other issues important to Indigenous People. At only 12 pages and 3,000 copies in circulation, it’s about half of what the magazine usually produces, but it comes with a special purpose – battling cultural appropriation while also tackling issues of reconciliation, race relations and colonization/decolonization among others.
“The idea for this special issue came about due to all the cultural appropriation that has been going on lately,” says Editor-In-Chief Chris Tyrone Ross.
“Then as we were planning it, other events and news happened locally which brought up a lot of issues of race, like the UofR (University of Regina) Cheer Team and the John Gormley incident, so we thought a special edition was needed to tackle such issues in order to educate our non-Indigenous readers.”
For this special edition, Shauneen Pete, Associate Professor and Executive Lead for Indigenization at the University of Regina took a lead role as Managing Editor. Pete has been involved as a Contributing Editor for the magazine since it was relaunched last year and also writes an education column every issue.
RezX also reached out to a couple new writers, Colby Tootoosis, a band councillor at Poundmaker First Nation, who is vocal on many grassroots issues, and Erica Violet Lee, who is one of the lead activists for the Idle No More movement.
You can read the digital edition below right now or else pick up a copy next week when it is released province wide (locations to be posted soon). At the moment, Creeland Gas Station in Regina, SK is the only store carrying copies.
– RezX Magazine
