Jill McCabe Johnson

Starlight Tour

“The practice of police officers driving…an Aboriginal man/youth to the outskirts of town during the night, and often during winter, and leaving them there.… Neil Stonechild, a Native youth, froze to death in 1990, after being taken on a ‘starlight tour’ by two Saskatoon police officers.”
—Urban Dictionary

 

Jill McCabe Johnson is the author of the poetry books Diary of the One Swelling Sea and Revolutions We’d Hoped We’d Outgrown. She also writes narrative nonfiction with a deep social conscience and even deeper roots in nature and the natural sciences. Her aims and interests lie at the intersection of protecting the endangered and leaning into what’s just and beautiful in this world. Recent works have been published in Fourth Genre, Slate, The Brooklyn Review, Terrain.org, Waxwing, and Diode.