Sage Paul is a twenty-five year old Denesulin and Hungarian/British girl who is the events and communications manager at imagineNATIVE Film Festival in Toronto Ontario.
1. My community
I am a proud urban warrior. It’s hard sometimes to balance my urban life and my roots, and it is my my relatives in Patuanak, my home community, that keep me grounded in where I’ve come from. They’re always teaching me things I could never learn from any institution. My urban Native friends are also my community. They keep me inspired to do good things for my relatives, stay true to my roots but still be a city-slicker. Because many of them were born or lived on their reserve for a long time I can see that they can keep their urban lives balanced with their traditional roots and values - something I struggle with often.
2. Day Bank application for my iPhone
I'm poor and spend way too much money on nothing, so I'm keeping good track of my finances this way.
3. iPod
While the iPhone has space for music, it's only 8GBs and I like lots of selection. Things are almost catastrophic if I don’t have music playing. So, I put in my ipod to see "most played" and it's a mixture . . . literally, so here are my top five in no order: Mother Mother Touch Up, Radiohead The Bends, Junior Boys So This is Goodbye, The Knife Deep Cuts and Amy Winehouse Back to Black.
4. My petsI love them. Tiga my Bengal kitty queen, Zena my catahoula/weimereiner princess and Frodo my funny cairn/toy poodle munchkin. They provide me with hours of entertainment and teach me responsibility, and responsibility is something I try to pretend doesn’t exist, so it’s important it happens some how.
5. My comfort food
My favorite comfort food in Toronto is Polish eats at Chopin or Indian food at Shala-Mar, which are both on Roncesvalles Avenue.
6. My lover
It’s always a rollercoaster ride living life with someone else, and with out him, life is just a walk through . . . the park? . . . the desert? . . .somewhere where walking is boring. We teach each other things every day, love each other in a way no one else can, and excite each other in our adventures.
7. My hair kitIt’s not just one thing that gets my hair the way I want it. And without it all, my hair’s a frizzy mess. This “kit” includes my hair dryer with a diffuser (very, very, very important), my CHI hair straightener, K-Pak Joico shampoo and conditioner (but will be changing it to Kevin Murphy) and mousse (still trying to find the perfect brand).
8. ShoesI can make clothes. I can’t make shoes. I have all kinds of shoes for every season and can’t live without them. My top three favourite kinds of shoes - "skinny" high tops, like my white honey mid Adidas, platform sneakers like my underground wedge shoes (they've got black on white polk-a-dots, with a cute strap), and open toe heels (nothing too strappy.. ugh, strappy) with a kind of 50s style. Shoes are usually the start of an outfit for the day, and I usually bring 4 – 5 pairs when I’m traveling.
9. My secret beach
This secret beach is by my house (close to the water treatment plant at the end of the Queen Street line) with friends, drinks, boom box and bbq. It is the best (and we don't have to worry about a million scenesters too!).
10. Aveeno Lip BalmMy lips are always chapped – always – and Aveeno seems to work the best, although I’m not committed.
Inspired by Toronto Life's 'City Survivor' pages, UNGS is selecting Indigenous individuals from all over who represent what it is to be a Native person living in today's modern world and how we decide to navigate it.
See other Urban Warrior's here:
Waawaate Fobister
Kitsuneh Star Moon
Tatanka Means
Erika Archer
Anthony Collins (aka Thosh)
Lisa Charleyboy
Brian Frejo
Sage Paul
Doug (AKA Plex) Bedard
Julie Lafreniere
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