Reading (for) Decolonization: Engaging With Life Writing in Labrador’s Them Days Magazine

• Published in: Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies
• Main Author: Hallett, Vicki S.
• Other Authors: Institute for Social and Economic Research
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: SAGE Publications 2017
• Subjects: Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous); Cultural Studies; Newfoundland; Happy Valley-Goose Bay
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1532708617750176; http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1532708617750176; http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1177/1532708617750176

Them Days magazine is a quarterly publication that has been dedicated to preserving the history and culture of Labrador for the past 42 years. It is created in Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Labrador, in the mainland portion of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. This article outlines a methodology of faithful feminist witnessing that is used to engage the Indigenous and non-Indigenous stories contained in Them Days and the story of Them Days itself. This methodology utilizes decolonizing, postcolonial, and feminist life-writing theories, and is guided by decolonial attitude, which the author argues is demonstrated in the magazine’s founding principles and continuing work.