Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being Octavio Paz crouched outside her parents' bedroom

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Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being Octavio Paz crouched outside her parents' bedroomIn that moment, I felt closer to whiteness than not. I was completely complicit and didn't think twice about entering a space that could cover their walls with images of contemporary Indigenous perspectives, but exclude their physical bodies from entering and experiencing. In that moment, I felt like a real Canadian. Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being is the debut collection of nonfiction essays by Amy Fung. In it, Fung takes a closer