Yolanda Bonnell’s White Girls in Moccasins, presented by manidoons collective and Native Earth Performing Arts opened at the Aki Studio on Friday night.  Co-directed by Bonnell and Carmen Alvis, it’s a play about identity and and recovering roots.  The principal character Miskozi, like the playwright, is Indigenous but I don’t think the play is entirely about Indigenous identity.  The other two roles are Zlibi, played by a Bermudian Trans Woman of African ancestry and Waabishkizi; played by a second generation Settler woman.  So while the focus is on Indigenous identity I think it raises a lot of other questions too.

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