By Shari Narine, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Windspeaker.com For more than three decades, three-time Juno award-winning singer Susan Aglukark wrote songs that laid bare the trauma she experienced from being sexually assaulted at a young age. What she found more difficult to write though was Kihiani: A Memoir of Healing. “I think what’s kind of magical about the songwriting and performing, it is in your mind. They’re three-and-a-half minute pieces. They’re just glimpses of parts of your life. Whereas the memoir, it’s just about everything,” Aglukark told Windspeaker.com. Kihiani is an Inuktitut word that means “because we must”, and it was the right time to tell her story, she says. “What I didn’t anticipate was … (the) personalness of it, the intimacy of details and sharing that and documenting that…
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