• Indigenization, Decolonization, Reconciliation

    Sing Me Your Song

    I recently attended a KISS concert where the familiar tunes triggered a nostalgic trip to my teenage years.  I realized that I had grown older with two of the performers, and that very moment of realization had impacted me more than I had bargained for. As the music played, I found myself captivated by the diverse crowd that had also aged alongside the band and many had brought younger versions of themselves to indulge in the shared nostalgia. My party, spanning three generations from my late grandmother’s brother to my eldest daughter, shared in this representation. The two hours of non-stop music reconnected me to stories of a younger me;…