MOTION
After Mayor Gregor Robertson’s apology for the City of Vancouver’s role in the 1942 internment of Japanese Canadians
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT
this writer-poet does hereby claim full
perspective for their experiences. With
both self-determination & sustenance,
the writer-poet completely informs their
sense of historical displacement, under-
stands the colonial nature of a canadian
immigration system, separation from home-
lands, as part of a global neocolonial eco-
nomic project, bearing a reduction of
wild salmon populations & other eco-
systems.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT
the writer-poet works to birth all that she
writes to raise just communities, & will
not force any of its stories, upholding respect
for the ancestors upon these unceded lands,
waterways, & other life forces within
xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, səlilwətaɬ,
& qiqéyt territories, now & onwards.
Author’s Bio
erica hiroko isomura is a genre-fluid writer who lives near the stó:lō (Fraser River). isomura was selected for Room Magazine’s 2021 Emerging Writer Award and won Briarpatch’s 2019 Writing In The Margins contest for creative non-fiction. She is developing an essay collection and writes a newsletter called ritualistic.
