ABSTRACT
Feminist geographers value including local voices in considerations of topics such as extractive economies. This chapter focuses on autobiographical texts, followed by reflections on these and lessons learnt along the way. Sharing feminist geographers' personal stories emphasizes the heavy reliance on extractive economies the emotionality of life in northern British Columbia (BC). The chapter provides readers an idea of the daily realizations, discomforts, upsets, disappointments, hopes, fears and concerns that come from living in such places, so that they might consider these alongside claims and arguments about community-level impacts. It then offers autobiographical writing accounts as examples of how such texts can elucidate impacts of extractive economies, at the personal level. In human geography, it is typical for authors to temper emotionality when writing. Given this, it felt unnatural and overly revelatory of themselves to consider how they could best share their observations and feelings about these.
