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Monica Kidd @monicakidd.bsky.social · 2d

My cover story in the next issue of The Walrus.

The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 2d

A generation ago, measles was declared eradicated from Canada. Today, Alberta reports more confirmed cases than the entire United States. How did it become the epicentre of Canada’s outbreak? Physician and journalist @monicakidd.bsky.social explores: thewalrus.ca/how-alberta-beca...

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Monica Kidd @monicakidd.bsky.social · 4d

Her happy place.

Monica Kidd @monicakidd.bsky.social · 8d

Oh sure, Canada has maples and larches that do the fall colours thing. But what about the humble trembling aspen?

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Monica Kidd @monicakidd.bsky.social · 19d

Oh, Alberta... #freedomofinformation

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Monica Kidd @monicakidd.bsky.social · 20d

“We are not, of course, in dire need of roads, transmission towers, dams, reservoirs, and gas pipelines. We are in dire need of courtesy. We are in dire need of a broadly intelligent conversation about human fate.” Barry Lopez wrote that in 1996. If anything, it’s truer today, 29 years later.

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Monica Kidd @monicakidd.bsky.social · 21d

Just imagine a “fossil-fuel non-proliferation treaty.”

Monica Kidd @monicakidd.bsky.social · 21d

I missed this in July! The International Court of Justice has ruled in favour of an action led by Vanuatu: countries could be in violation of international law if they fail to take measures to protect the planet from climate change, and those harmed could be entitled to reparations.

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Monica Kidd @monicakidd.bsky.social · 22d

Wow. I made peach cobbler and one bite brought me right back to my dad’s lunch breaks from our family store and Hungry Man TV Dinners. You know, the ones with a triangles of meat-like product and instant mashed potatoes. I could almost taste the aluminum foil. What flavour brings you back?

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Monica Kidd @monicakidd.bsky.social · 24d

Predawn trail run in Nose Hill Park. I’m eternally grateful to people who have the foresight and fortitude to leave places set aside to let the land be what it is.

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Monica Kidd @monicakidd.bsky.social · 26d

I think none. From blacklisting books in schools to this. Who hurt you, Alberta?

Monica Kidd @monicakidd.bsky.social · 26d

What legislated transphobia looks like in Alberta. I’m expected to sign this so my 12-year-old kid (who was born and identifies as female but it’s none of their business) can play school soccer.

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Monica Kidd @monicakidd.bsky.social · 27d

Please join me for Oct 23 for this bold new analysis of #mentalhealth research and treatment by Marianne Apostolides. With #Calgary playwright Clem Martini, co-author of the graphic memoir BITTER MEDICINE. @bookhugpress.bsky.social
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Mental Health—on the page, in the lab, and in our community

Join us for a reading and discussion on mental health and writing, featuring Clem Martini, Marianne Apostolides, and Monica Kidd.

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Monica Kidd @monicakidd.bsky.social · 27d

Bizarre that we’ve come this: a petition for Alberta to remain in Canada.

Monica Kidd @monicakidd.bsky.social · 29d

Well now! Look who gets to cavort with the likes of Marcello Di Cintio and Danielle Groen for a panel on structuring long-format print journalism? Very excited to open the hood on feature-writing with these two for the Alberta Magazines Conference this year, September 25-26 in Calgary.

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Monica Kidd @monicakidd.bsky.social · Sep 8

More smoky day photos, brought to you by the #Pyrocene. #arnicalake #banffnationalpark #climatechange #worldonfire

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Monica Kidd @monicakidd.bsky.social · Sep 3

Found in my mom’s sewing kit. Why yes, those are bullets. This may have to be the cover of my next book of poetry.

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Monica Kidd @monicakidd.bsky.social · Sep 2

Mom passed earlier this year and missed the absolute bounty of apples and crabapples in her back yard.

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Monica Kidd @monicakidd.bsky.social · Aug 27

It’s been a minute since I did any printing, but I was pleased with how this turned out. The text is based on a story I was told many years ago, and the image is from a photo I took in Brigus NL and designed to look like an old newspaper clipping. Handset in Century Schoolbook, 14 pt. #letterpress

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Monica Kidd @monicakidd.bsky.social · Aug 23

I don’t know enough about #beekeeping yet to read all the signs, but the girls seemed to have survived without me for 6 weeks. Nor do I know if there’s enough brood to support a honey super, but here goes nothing!

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Monica Kidd @monicakidd.bsky.social · Aug 23

Running in St. Stephen’s Green in Dublin I spotted a couple of bird nests in weird spots. I stopped to look closely. Art! I learned later the installation was David Tully’s: “I think the long arc of human history was like our childhood. We were playful, cruel, innocent and we believed in magic.”

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Monica Kidd @monicakidd.bsky.social · Aug 22

The Old Library in Dublin’s (16th century) Trinity College is decanting its books for cleaning and restoration. Visiting there means confronting empty bookshelves that should be full. With books in Alberta schools on the chopping block, it all felt a little too real. #banbookbanning

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Monica Kidd @monicakidd.bsky.social · Aug 13

In Galway for a meeting of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment. Melting permafrost as a place of temporal rupture. Coastal erosion as Gothic. Accretion as a metaphor for hope. Positive tipping points. Brain on fire.

Monica Kidd @monicakidd.bsky.social · Aug 11

Meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic, coastal inundation and erosion are top of mind. Climate messaging around Galway, where the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment's conference (theme: erosion) starts tomorrow. #coastalerosion #sealevelrise

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Monica Kidd @monicakidd.bsky.social · Aug 10

I’m so grateful to the Winterset in Summer literary festival in Eastport, NL to have been able to present my novel The Crane and to hear from the likes of Heather and Arizona O’Neill, Jane Urquhart, Lisa Moore and Jack Whelan. #canlit #literaryfiction @breakwaterbooksltd.bsky.social

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Monica Kidd @monicakidd.bsky.social · Aug 10

You have to respect a place where the official flower is carnivorous. #pitcherplant #newfoundland

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