November 3rd, 2025

This entire week there is no Women’s history as my professor went to a conference thing in South Korea. So we will just briefly get into my seminar but, again, I don’t know how much to say as it is not super relevant to this site.

I did another presentation, the reason why was because I only had a few weeks left and this piece was written by an author that I am using as a source in my paper. Even thigh the topic itself was completely different to what my paper is about, it at least gives me something to read that was written by him.

This entire class was about homesteading in Canada and my source was from Lyle Dick. He also wrote a piece about queer people in western Canada during this era that we are studying.

The homesteading piece was quite dry as it talked about homesteading costs. Most of it was about money and I also brought up how there were cooperative aspects to homesteading as well, people would share equipment with those that didn’t have any. I did get nervous and skipped some stuff. I also asked my professor for clarification on what exactly he wanted me to talk about regarding the piece as I didn’t want to yap about nothing. So he told me to talk about the starting costs of homesteading in Saskatchewan. So I did.

Other presentations came and went, in my peripheral vision I noticed something strange and when I glanced at the guy next to me I noticed he was playing wordle and chess, which was funny.

Cowboys were mentioned, as they weren’t a thing up here in Canada although people like to pretend it was. All of our cowboys literally came from the US. You will be happy to know that my professor did say that most cowboys were actually black and Mexican, which is contrary to the common idea that cowboys were white men.

Next week, November 17th, will actually technically be my last seminar although we do have to come back in for paper presentations on the 1st of December and the 8th. November 24th’s topic was just not interesting for anyone so he told us to use that time to work on our assignments.