I'm I'm not Takyapi.

This is Nick Estes, a co-host of the Red Nation podcast.

We are joined today by Danielle Peridy,

who is a journalist, an educator, has worked for several outlets, very prolific in Canada,

but we're really excited to have you here today, Danielle. Would you like to just introduce

yourself? Yeah, Tanxi, Danielle. Would you like to just introduce yourself? Yeah,

Tanxi, Danielle Parody. I live in Canada, in Alberta, and I'm a citizen of the Métis Nation of

Alberta or the Ootipim-Zawak Métis Nation. And yeah, I've been a journalist for about 15 years now.

Well, you know, thanks for joining us. I have a lot of questions, mostly just about the field of journalism and whatever hot tea you want to dish.

But mostly I'm interested, especially with my journalist friends, about how they get into this field.

You know, I'm a historian. I know my, like, my origin story. My origin story was just, I took a history course and it was taught by a non-native person and it was on native people and I couldn't actually believe that he was a professional saying

these things. And so I switched from Earth Sciences, which would probably have been more profitable

to doing history. Yeah, I actually started in the like blog days.

Remember back when Twitter was was really popular and everybody was writing stories about like very personal stories.

You know, actually recently there was a new memoir by Lindy West.

So that was sort of the genre that I started in writing about was feminism.

So feminism on the internet in 2011 was where I first cut my teeth. But I was in school. So I actually now

teach at the school that I was in, McEwen University in Edmonton, where I teach journalism. And I took a mixture of at that time,

professional writing and journalism classes. I think I had some aspirations to do other kinds of

writing. Like I wanted, you know, who wants to be a journalist? I wanted to be like a writer,

a big famous writer. And to my dismay, I was much better at magazine writing, at narrative nonfiction, and not so good at just making things up completely.

So between that, blogging and getting a column, so my editor, Tim Karengesser, reached me on Twitter one day when he had just moved to the city and he gave me a column, which I think is an insane thing to give a 23-year-old a column,

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