Nov 24, 2025
Nov 24, 2025
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5.30pm
5.30pm
Critical Media Club
Critical Media Club
Critical Media Club
Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy
Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy
Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy (2021)
A film by Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers
Runtime: 125 minutes
Co-Presented by the Critical Media Club
Synopsis: Filmmaker Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers explores the impacts of substance use on her community, the Kainai First Nation, and how harm reduction and compassion are helping to heal.
Bio: Elle-Máijá Apiniskim Tailfeathers is a writer, director, producer, and actor. She is a member of the Kainai First Nation (Blackfoot Confederacy) as well as Sámi from Uŋárja (Nesseby, Norway). She is the daughter of Blackfoot physician and activist Dr. Esther Tailfeathers and Sámi journalist/politician/activist Bjarne Store-Jakobsen. Tailfeathers lives on the ancestral lands of the Anishiinaabeg, Anishininewuk, Dakota Oyate, Denesuline, and Nehethowuk Nations, as well as the homelands of the Red River Métis, in Treaty 1 Territory in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She maintains deep connections to both of her families, communities, and Indigenous homelands of Kainai and Sápmi.
Fundraiser information: The Drug User Liberation Front (DULF) is a grassroots harm reduction organization based out of so-called Vancouver's Downtown Eastside neighborhood. Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum, its founders, pioneered a radical compassion club model to intervene in the ongoing toxic drug supply crisis, which has killed over 50,000 people across so-called Canada since 2016. Eris and Jeremy were arrested on drug trafficking charges in October 2023, and the compassion club was shut down, despite the fact that the initiative was well-known to (and even praised by) politicians and public health officials. On November 7, 2025, British Columbia Supreme Court Justice Catherine Murray found the two guilty on three counts of possession for the purpose of trafficking under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (CSDA). Their convictions are held in abeyance pending the results of DULF’s Charter challenge to the CDSA charges, which begins on November 24. The film screening will be a fundraiser for DULF's legal costs ahead of the Charter challenge. The suggested donation is $5-15, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. You can learn more about DULF's work at their website, https://dulf.ca/.
Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy (2021)
A film by Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers
Runtime: 125 minutes
Co-Presented by the Critical Media Club
Synopsis: Filmmaker Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers explores the impacts of substance use on her community, the Kainai First Nation, and how harm reduction and compassion are helping to heal.
Bio: Elle-Máijá Apiniskim Tailfeathers is a writer, director, producer, and actor. She is a member of the Kainai First Nation (Blackfoot Confederacy) as well as Sámi from Uŋárja (Nesseby, Norway). She is the daughter of Blackfoot physician and activist Dr. Esther Tailfeathers and Sámi journalist/politician/activist Bjarne Store-Jakobsen. Tailfeathers lives on the ancestral lands of the Anishiinaabeg, Anishininewuk, Dakota Oyate, Denesuline, and Nehethowuk Nations, as well as the homelands of the Red River Métis, in Treaty 1 Territory in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She maintains deep connections to both of her families, communities, and Indigenous homelands of Kainai and Sápmi.
Fundraiser information: The Drug User Liberation Front (DULF) is a grassroots harm reduction organization based out of so-called Vancouver's Downtown Eastside neighborhood. Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum, its founders, pioneered a radical compassion club model to intervene in the ongoing toxic drug supply crisis, which has killed over 50,000 people across so-called Canada since 2016. Eris and Jeremy were arrested on drug trafficking charges in October 2023, and the compassion club was shut down, despite the fact that the initiative was well-known to (and even praised by) politicians and public health officials. On November 7, 2025, British Columbia Supreme Court Justice Catherine Murray found the two guilty on three counts of possession for the purpose of trafficking under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (CSDA). Their convictions are held in abeyance pending the results of DULF’s Charter challenge to the CDSA charges, which begins on November 24. The film screening will be a fundraiser for DULF's legal costs ahead of the Charter challenge. The suggested donation is $5-15, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. You can learn more about DULF's work at their website, https://dulf.ca/.
