(Good) Girls Dont Hitchhike by Selina Boan

Based out of Vancouver, Selina Boantter.com/selina_boan?lang=en has been a standout on the Canadian poetry scene since she was shortlisted for the 2016 CBC Poetry Prize. Since then she’s repeated that feat and published a collection of poems titled “Undoing Hours”. She claims white settler-nehiyaw identity, and her work has engaged with both of those heritages. Her poem "(Good) Girls Don’t Hitchhike” is an unflinching look at the horrific history of the “Highway of Tears” in northern British Columbia.

Sometimes the things that make us angry are things that happen to us, but because we are empathetic creatures, we often feel anger about injustices done to others. What’s something that makes you mad not on your own behalf, but on behalf of others? Why?