This week, host Shayla Oulette Stonechild is joined by none other than Kelly Boutsalis. Kelly is a writer and journalist, based in Toronto. She is Mohawk, and from the Six Nations reserve. Her words have appeared in the Toronto Star, CBC, Elle Canada, Fashion, Flare, and more. This episode is for anyone who wants to learn more about what goes on behind the scenes as a journalist. Listen to how Kelly got her start in writing, how she sometimes needs to bends the rules with certain publications when faced with any sort of censorship, often in order to protect people she interviews, going to university as an Indigenous person, how it can be difficult when you are one of the few Indigenous people, the evolution of the industry, the network of female writers who help and lift each other up, the importance of Indigenous people telling their own stories, and how important representation is, and how good and accurate representation of Indigenous people is hard to come by.

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