KIM BACK

I gave him the choice because…

but we weren’t sure what would happen, you know,

I was like…

I’m gonna be taken away for a period of time

I couldn’t inform him of that.

I don’t think she wasn’t very impressed at that time.

I can’t remember.

Eric and I have more in-depth conversations about real life and Nico mostly talks about herself she’s a teenaged girl

I would be the one to be arrested.

I didn’t change the plan of going and being arrested.

I think I travelled out there with her,

I remember clearly travelling back with her though.

I mean, I’m like not radical, ecofeminist person, you know,

I’m very, kind of community oriented, raising my kids.

I felt really ill-prepared, and I felt really uneducated.

I met powerfully young women who were, you know, they, the people who were informing us about what was going one and what

I don’t remember any of their names.

I can remember them standing side by side and sort of sharing sentences and stuff.

I liked it!

So that was the first step,

if you were planning on being arrested, take the civil disobedience.

So we did that.

I was…

I knew that I was safe, that was the main thing, you know, I live in Canada, right?

I’m not gonna be taken off and shot somewhere in the dark.

Boom!

It was kind of…

I felt a kind of stage fright

 and a kind of, I felt

Oh!

I don’t know, mostly the uneducated bothered me.

I felt like a poser, you know,

I felt like a fake actually,

‘cause here are all these people who are so well informed, and so, who have immersed themselves in this issue

this is their entire thing, you know,

and I’m just this big fake, ‘ok I’ll do this’, right?

That’s how I felt.

For me, it was the issue

I felt uneducated about.

I didn’t,

 I wasn’t,

I don’t know,

it seemed like getting arrested was a really important thing to do

and it was a really honourable thing to do,

but I didn’t feel like I was worthy of that honour,

do you know.

It just like…

I was like…

I’m just stepping in here, like,

I’m a charlatan, you know.

And on the other hand, I felt, well who better than me, you know what I mean?

Like, I don’t have anything to lose by doing this.

I’m not gonna lose a job,

I’m not gonna lose my kids,

I’m not gonna, you know,

I’m far enough removed from my family that any opinion they might have of it, my mother laughed.

Citation

Moore, Niamh, “Oral history interview with Kim Back (audio recording and transcript),” Clayoquot Lives: An Ecofeminist Story Web, accessed April 20, 2023, https://clayoquotlives.sps.ed.ac.uk/items/show/33