Them Days magazine is a quarterly publication that has been dedicated to preserving the history and culture of Labrador for the past 42 years. It is created in Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Labrador, in the mainland portion of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. This article outlines a methodology of faithful feminist witnessing that is used to engage the Indigenous and non-Indigenous stories contained in Them Days and the story of Them Days itself. This methodology utilizes decolonizing, postcolonial, and feminist life-writing theories, and is guided by decolonial attitude, which the author argues is demonstrated in the magazine’s founding principles and continuing work.

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The reality television series Cold Water Cowboys, which aired its first ten-part season in the winter of 2014, follows the high-seas adventures of six fishing captains and their crews in the restructured Newfoundland fishery. These fishermen target species like crab, halibut, shrimp and mackerel, and go to great lengths to make a living from a newly diversified and technologically advanced industry. The show presents the men of the fishery as embodying Newfoundland identity, and supporting long held myths of regional and ethnic masculinity. This is accomplished through the representation of heteronormative cultural tropes, indigenization of the settler population, and the erasure of Indigenous peoples and women from historical and present-day participation in the fishery. Ultimately, the “reality” presented in Cold Water Cowboys reflects and supports dominant narratives that buoy the neoliberal, settler-colonial state.

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