
Amy Romer
Writer and Photographer at Freelance
✍️ @indiginewsmedia @thewalrus @thetyee. 📸 nonprofits, @insidenatgeo. Mostly done here and migrating over to @amyromer.bsky.social.
Articles
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1 week ago |
thespec.com | Amy Romer
Tucked into a quiet corner of the Bill Reid Gallery is a nine-minute film by Nlaka’pamux artist Jade Baxter about the wildfire that devastated her homelands. Through a series of raw, handheld clips, Why Would I Leave? documents the months leading up to the June 2021 blaze that tore through “Lytton.”Baxter’s footage captures not only the fire itself, but the simmering tension of a community living under intensifying climate pressure.
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2 weeks ago |
thenarwhal.ca | Amy Romer
Get the inside scoop on The Narwhal’s environment and climate reporting by signing up for our free newsletter. Laughter echoes through Totem Hall in Sḵwx̱wú7mesh as Charlene Williams weaves between nieces and nephews, delivering ice and buckets for fish guts across a long, plastic-covered table.
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1 month ago |
thespec.com | Amy Romer
Garth Mullins has spent years telling other people’s stories — amplifying voices of drug users through his award-winning podcast Crackdown and organizing with the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU). Now, he’s turned the lens on himself. His memoir, Crackdown: Surviving and Resisting the War on Drugs, is not a victory lap or redemption tale, it’s something rarer: a grounded, unvarnished account of a life shaped by addiction, criminalization and collective resistance.
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1 month ago |
thespec.com | Amy Romer
Laughter echoes through Totem Hall in Sḵwx̱wú7mesh as Charlene Williams weaves between nieces and nephews, delivering ice and buckets for fish guts across a long, plastic-covered table. “Auntie, auntie, look!” a child yells out as she proudly holds up her first cleanly gutted slhawt’ (herring) for Williams to see. On April 10, members of Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation) and friends leaned in to learn how to clean and prepare slhawt’ — many for the first time.
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1 month ago |
thespec.com | Amy Romer
Editor’s note: Megaphone’s peer newsroom, The Shift, meets monthly with Megaphone Editor Paula Carlson and Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Amy Romer to brainstorm story ideas and take on assignments. As with any vibrant community newsroom, there is conversation — sometimes spirited — about a variety of topics and current events. This dialogue includes valuable insights that may or may not make it into a news story.
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