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Join Sustenance Radio host Bridget Holtom in a conversation with Janet Marie Rogers about what it means to find your voice and speak truth to power. How can poetry be a source of energy as well an outlet for self-expression? Janet argues that creativity changes the conversation and that artistic expression may be the only truly sustaining avenue for people to challenge historic colonisation and ongoing oppression for Indigenous peoples in so-called British Colombia.

Janet Marie Rogers is the Poet Laureate of Victoria, B.C. Janet is a Mohawk/Tuscarora writer from the Six Nations band in southern Ontario. Janet works in the genres of poetry, short fiction, science fiction, play writing, spoken-word performance poetry, video poetry and recorded poems with music. Janet's book Unearthed is a groundbreaking collection that shatters the silence about the Native traditional territory beneath your feet. You can listen to and support their work here.