Kim Back
I think that my friend Sarah, who was about 16 at the time, 16 or 17.
I heard about what was going on out there.
I like these people, I can work with them.
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I was first at the pot,
I was there.
Your mother can do this, I can really do this you know.
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I gave him the choice because, but we weren’t sure what would happen
I was like, I’m gonna be taken away for a period of time
I can’t be with you.
I mean he loves his friends and stuff
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I don’t think she wasn't very impressed at that time
I can’t really remember, isn’t that weird?
I can’t remember.
I remember that she was angry with me.
I couldn’t do anything for her, you know.
I can remember her not wanting me to go to jail, that, that was scary for her
I was, you know, the plan at that time was for me to go to jail
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Roxana, I think she was kinda more gung-ho about it at the time. I mean it’s kind of her lifestyle.
I’m like a mom, right.
I’m kinda like,
I’ll raise children.
I would be the one to be arrested and she’d be my support network around that.
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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