Author encourages people to stand against residential school denialism – Windspeaker.com
July 14, 2025
Métis scholar Kristy McLeod is bracing for more hateful online comments when Decolonization and Me: Conversations about Healing a Nation and Ourselves hits the stores in mid-August. She wrote the book with Orange Shirt Day founder Phyllis Webstad.
“I’ve made as many (of my social media accounts) private as I can so that it’s not coming at me unexpectedly. But I do expect it will happen and…I don’t really do well in very strong confrontation. I mean, I can stand up for myself, but it’s not my preference…There’s a part of me that’s a little nervous and afraid of what that will be like,” she said.
Phyllis Webstad
McLeod and Webstad have already had a taste of the vitriol, ignorance and defensiveness that has become more and more common on social media. They were inundated with such comments when they announced their intentions to write Decolonization and Me, a book intended to guide conversations and actions on truth and reconciliation.
