Période de questionsJune 10th. Twenty to six, and I’ve just arrived at Centre Saint-Pierre for RÉZO’s annual general meeting. The long tables usually here have been folded and pushed against the right-hand wall. Plastic …Vincent Mousseau, MSc·5d ago·16 min readFollowAbolitionBlacknessCanadian PoliticsExhaustion
Les inscriptions sont fermées pour le momentThe conversation is over. My friend and I are sitting in the particular stillness that follows something hard, the kind where the next thing hasn’t become possible yet. I know how to be here. I’ve lea…Vincent Mousseau, MSc·May 27·15 min readFollowAbolitionBlacknessCanadian PoliticsExhaustion
Place d’YouvilleMay 20th, 10 AM. Twenty-three degrees and the wind is moving through the field in a way that keeps changing its mind. I'm sitting near the old Customs House, just off rue McGill, in what is now a wide…Vincent Mousseau, MSc·May 23·5 min readFollowBlacknessCanadian PoliticsExhaustionPlace
Fort StreetMay 9th. Sunny. I'm walking past the Winnipeg Police Service headquarters at 11 in the morning when I turn off Graham onto Fort Street and the timing is what it is. Two men coming from the gym, laughi…Vincent Mousseau, MSc·May 9·8 min readFollowBlacknessCanadian PoliticsColonialismExhaustion
Peel Basin, 09:15Under the Bonaventure Expressway. The Five Roses sign at an angle I hadn't expected from here. REM trains to my right, sliding past without sound from where I'm sitting. Water. I'm always near water t…Vincent Mousseau, MSc·May 2·6 min readFollowBlacknessExhaustionGriefMethodology
EastwardThe ice is gone. I notice this before I've settled fully onto the bench, the oat milk moka still warm between my hands, the pines along the boardwalk doing their slow work in the wind. Habitat 67 sits…Vincent Mousseau, MSc·Apr 29·11 min readFollowAncestorsBlacknessExhaustionGrief
Consequence as WeatherThe coffee shop near the Palais des congrès is already full of Liberal Party of Canada convention delegates when I join the line outside. Cop cars are parked down the street. Inside, every table has a…Vincent Mousseau, MSc·Apr 10·7 min readFollowBlacknessCanadian PoliticsColonialismExhaustion
What the Credential RequiresThe process is specific. A recognized bachelor's or master's in social work. More than 350 hours of supervised fieldwork. Registration with a provincial regulatory body. Annual renewal. Professional l…Vincent Mousseau, MSc·Apr 5·5 min readFollowAbolitionExhaustionSocial WorkTransitions
Fool’s SpringThe air is doing something it has no business doing in March. I notice it before I’m fully awake to noticing—something in the chest, a small release, the jaw unclenching in a way I didn’t realize it h…Vincent Mousseau, MSc·Mar 9·13 min readFollowExhaustionGriefPersonal
The Body as First RegisterMy body has been the first place where things gather. A pressure sits in my back—a low bracing that has begun to feel structural, the kind of tightness that doesn’t shift with stretching or rest. It m…Vincent Mousseau, MSc·Feb 9·9 min readFollowExhaustionGriefTransitionsPersonal
UnmooredThe morning after the election, the city looks the same. Dry streets, brittle air, leaves pressed flat against the pavement. A jogger passes, breath clouding the cold, and somewhere, a car alarm start…Vincent Mousseau, MSc·Nov 3·9 min readFollowCanadian PoliticsExhaustionGriefPlace
