Ada’Itsx

Ada’Itsx, commonly known as Fairy Creek (FC), is located on the unceded traditional territory of the Pacheedaht and Ditidaht peoples. It is about an hour's drive inland down logging roads from Port Rupert on Vancouver Island, British Columbia.

I first heard about the blockade in June of 2021. From some friends of a friend who had been there. I followed the blockade news closely that summer as I melted away in the city,  wondering if I had made the right decision to keep my job instead of dropping everything to go. In August, record-high heat waves rolled through the lower mainland, and FC became prevalent in the country's consciousness. When I saw on the FC Instagram account that HQ had fallen and read that they were asking for people to come to camp, naming it the last stand, I knew I had to go. 

 From August 2021 to September 2023, I spent around six months living on the front lines. Ada'itx is a visual diary of the friends I made and the places I called home while at the Fairy Creek blockade. Hand-written letters by land defenders accompany my photographs. Through this collaborative living archive, I aim to persevere our stories of this critical moment in herstory. (The images I share with you here are of my personal experiences as a white AFAB person. I do by no means think they represent this movement as a whole.)