Fascinating, laugh out loud funny and surprisingly tender - The List (on Yukon Ho!)
Jennifer Irons is a UK immigrant from Canada who was told after Brexit to “go home.” But she hasn’t lived there in 20 years, and, according to their immigration system, she would not be eligible for a visa if she hadn’t been born there.
In fact, at her age, qualifications and gender, the only visas she is eligible for are the ones for rich people or as an ‘Elite Sportsperson.’ So, inspired by her childhood figure skating hero, ‘Canada’s Sweetheart’ Elizabeth Manley, Jennifer takes up roller skating. It’s here that she finds an ever-moving, welcoming, global and borderless community of people of all ages, sizes, nationalities, sexualities, identities, abilities, and proclivities.
Join Jennifer in this cross between a leisure disco and Stars On Ice as she explores nationalism, colonialism, identity and how to perfect the ‘Crazy Legs.’ In her hilarious and sad attempt to become a champion roller dancer and ‘Canada’s Next Sweetheart’ she highlights the futility and absurdities of borders, and asks, why do we insist on keeping people out of our group when we all just want to be in?
