[VIDEO] Mental Health in Focus: a conversation with Xavier Watso
"I make my own place. I'll kick the door down and walk right in." A former teacher, Xavier Watso, an Abenaki from Odanak, is a content creator, host and commentator. He talks about having to carve out his own place in Quebec's traditional media, and how he protects his mental health online: he blocks racist commenters "faster than his shadow" and has found in Indigenous TikTok a space to reconnect.
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