Pitchblende

Delivers an urgent poetics of resistance and appeal for environmental justice for a Saskatchewan community

“We began to dig ourselves

deeper than we dreamed when we began to see

metal as other than medicine,
our bodies, more than mineral.”

At Rabbit Lake in northern Saskatchewan lies the second largest uranium mine in the western world. For decades, uranium ore and its poisonous by-products—pitchblende, a highly radioactive rock—were removed, transported and scattered across the land, foreve...