Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory

Sep 25, 2024 | thewalrus.ca | Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory

“What ceremony would you like to perform to open the exhibition?”Inuit have created a modern ceremony that suits Western institutional special occasions and honours Inuit elders: lighting a qulliq—a traditional oil lamp, usually made from soapstone, filled with oil and lit with a long horizontal wick made from the cotton of tundra plants. The practice is soothing and teaches people about the traditional hearth of Inuit households, our source of light and warmth.

Jul 1, 2024 | memoirland.substack.com | Hannah Sward |Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory |Rebecca Giggs |Alexandra Dos Santos

Welcome to Memoir Land—a newsletter edited by , now featuring four verticals:Memoir Monday, a weekly curation of the best personal essays from around the web brought to you by Narratively, The Rumpus,  Granta, Guernica, Oldster Magazine, Literary Hub, Orion Magazine, The Walrus, and Electric Literature. Below is this week’s curation. First Person Singular, featuring original personal essays.

Jun 26, 2024 | thewalrus.ca | Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory

In pre-christian times, the markers of the passage of time for Inuit included: The tides (every six hours) The sunrise and the moonrise (every twelve hours, outside of the extremes of each in the summer and winter) The moon himself (evolving every week) Piturniq, when tides are highest and lowest at the new and full moons (every two weeks) The seasons (cycling every two months) Winters, which are so prominent and long in the Arctic Uteruses (cycling every month in times of plenty.) I have two...