The @nac.cna's Our Stories: Indigenous Book Club is back for #IndigenousHistoryMonth and you’re invited to join us for a conversation with author Joshua Whitehead discussing his book Making Love With the Land in partnership with the @opl_bpo. Tuesday, June 11 at 7pm Rossy Pavilion, 2nd floor National Arts Centre, 1 Elgin St, Ottawa This event is free b̶u̶t̶ s̶e̶a̶t̶i̶n̶g̶ i̶s̶ l̶i̶m̶i̶t̶e̶d̶. Tickets have sold out, but you can still tune in to the livestream. [link in bio] Making Love with the Land is a startling, challenging, uncompromising look at what it means to live as an Indigenous person “in the rupture” between identities. In these ten unique, heart-piercing non-fiction pieces, award-winning writer Joshua Whitehead illuminates the complex moment we’re living through now, in which Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples are navigating new and old ideas about “the land.” He asks: What is our relationship and responsibility towards it? And how has the land shaped ideas, histories, words, our very bodies? @jwhitehead204 @uminnpress #JoshuaWhitehead #MakingLoveWithTheLand #authorevent #ottawaevents #indigenousliterature
🎧 Do you enjoy audiobooks? What are your favorites? 🎧 📖 Audiobook lovers unite. My favorite time to listen to audiobooks is while going for a walk. It helps my brain focus and immerse itself into whatever I am reading. This is a list of some of my favorite audiobooks: Jonny Appleseed | (written and narrated by) #JoshuaWhitehead A Certain Hunger | #ChelseaGSummers ( narrator Hillary Huber ) My Dear Henry | #Kaylnnbayron ( narrator Clifford Samuel ) Kushiel’s Dart | #JaquelineCarey ( narrator Anne Flosnik) All Systems Red | #MarthaWells ( narrator Kevin R. Free) Horrorstor | #GradyHendrix (narrators #taisimmons and Bronson Pinchot ) Into the Drowning Deep | #MiraGrant ( narrator Christine Lakin) The Shuddering | #aniaahlborn (narrator Luke Daniels) Never Saw Me Coming | #verakurian (narrator Brittany Pressley) One of us is Dead | #JenevaRose (narrators Andi Arndt, Hillary Huber, Elizabeth Evans, Brittany Pressley, Cassandra Campbell ) Wrong Place, Wrong Time | #GillianMcAllister (narrator Lesley Sharp) The Good Neighbor | #rjparker (narrator Rose Robinson) 📚 If you are interested in doing some good today, please check the links in my bio to help/learn about Congo, Sudan, Palestine, MMIV, Stop Cop City and other intersectional movements around the world. 🩶 #booksbooksbooks #audiobooks #alwaysreading #booksconnectus #readerslife #reader #readinglist #readersofinstagram #bookrecs #bookcommunity #reading #bookish #audiobooklover #tantoraudio #mcmillanaudio
Hello, gentlefriends! I’ve been working on the details for @howlsbook and mine Indigenous Readathon and I wanted to start to talk about some books to you. These are some of the books that caught my heart during my research and organisation sessions. I already have my TBR (perhaps) fully established for August but these are some that I would like to read sooner rather than later. - The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Thieves (science fiction first heard about from @_jaiheaux_ as a possible choice for Social Justice in Science Fiction Bookclub) - Tauhou by Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall (this is perhaps my most beloved of this list, alternative storytelling by a Māori author that weaves short stories, poetry and memoir) - The Summer of Bitter and Sweet by Jen Ferguson (a-spec Native YA?? I need this translated fast) - The Boy from the Amish by Gary Lonesborough (also queer and Aboriginal, has been in the TBR for such a long time) - Making Love with the Land by Joshua Whitehead (possibly something perfect for my science fiction, nature and literature research that I can justify buying for my masters) - As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Enviromental Justice from Colonization to Standing Rock by Dina Gilio- Whitaker (planned on getting it but was a bit too much at the time, I want to learn more about Standing Rock) - Ædnan by Linnea Axelsson (have talked about this one on here before, still very anticipated) - A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder by Ma-Nee Chacaby, with Mary Louisa Plummer (After reading Before We Were Trans, I understood I need to actively learn about two spirit or spirited identities and not just simply group them under the White nonbinary umbrella) - Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot (Érica introduced this one to me and it sounds so interesting) Until August, I shall return with some recs to help you pick what to read in the Readathon. Here are some to start! #indigenousbooks #indigenousliterature #indigenousmemoir #nativebooks #queerbooks #queerbookstagram #nonfictionbooks #nonfiction #themarrowthieves #cheriedimaline #tauhou #kotukutitihuianuttall #thesummerofbitterandsweet #jenferguson #leromundo
Today we: Found my maiden namesake grove Rivered Read and Got ice cream ☀️ #dungan4life #humboldtredwoodsstatepark #jonnyappleseed #joshuawhitehead #jerseyscoops #thetrujillosgotonature
Back in January, when I was reading INDIGIQUEERNESS, something Joshua Whitehead said—among many other great things—struck me instantly: “Within Jonny Appleseed, Jonny’s greatest ability is that he has a voracious appetite—and a chasm of space—to eat pain and then regurgitate it into love or forgiveness. [...] Jonny has not only taken things from me but also gives me things.” This quote reminded me that some books—often in my case, Indigenous lit, queer lit, and translated lit—influence me in a unique way, where the books take something toxic out of my brain and replace it with something healthier and more beautiful. Something akin to an ability to imagine otherwise and defy borders. I owe more to these stories than a few sentences of gratitude. This sense of deep indebtedness demands me to include certain narratives as part of my present and future and to think of a larger “we.” I read BECOMING KIN by Patty Krawec as I was having these thoughts. A Good primer connecting colonial history to the present day, BECOMING KIN covers a range of issues that affect today’s Indigenous communities (e.g., land loss and extraction rights of natural resources, the welfare act, incarceration, and disappearance of native women). Each chapter ends with “Aambe,” meaning “let’s go” or “come on” in Anishinaabemowin, where resources for research are shared, inviting readers to take first steps to build and revive the connections with the land and its Indigenous peoples. For us, readers, to begin our work to become kin instead of settlers. “And now we turn to the process of rebuilding. We turn to the work of becoming kin to the land and each other, understanding our responsibilities. Because for Indigenous peoples, kinship means responsibilities.” I really appreciated this accessible book (though the references to Christianity, albeit infrequent, mostly flew over my head), and I recommend it to anyone thinking about solidarity politics. Thank you, @shinaabikwe, for putting BECOMING KIN on my radar. And thank you, #queeryouryearbookclub, for choosing INDIGIQUEERNESS. (info on Whitehead and Krawec in the comment)
🤍🩷🩶✨️ Library Haul! ✨️🩶🩷🤍 I recently picked up my newest batch of library loans, and I am so excited for all of these. 🩷 Bunny by Mona Awad ☆ This has been on my tbr for too long, and it is one of the books I promised I'd read in 2024 🤍 Mr. Fox by Helen Oyemi ☆ This author provided me with by far the STRANGEST reading experience ever with Boy, Snow, Bird. That post is coming soon. However, I see her constantly referenced by 2 of my favorite authors (Ali Smith & Akwaeke Emezi), so I have to try a 2nd book by her. 🩷 Hotel World by Ali Smith ☆ I already devoured this book, and OH MY, I can not wait to talk about it. I love Ali Smith. 🤍 Love After The End An Anthology of Two-Spirit & Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction by Joshua Whitehead ☆ SO Eager to jump into this new avenue I have discovered. I learned about Two Spirits when reading Sisters of the Lost Nation by Nick Medina, and I just had to learn more. This collection looks beautiful. ••☆ Do you enjoy using your local library? ☆•• ☆ ☆ .
I’ve heard such beautiful things about this book. I’m diving in today! #makinglovewiththeland #joshuawhitehead #bookhookup #bookstagram #books #booksbooksbooks #booklover #bookaddict #audiobook #kayleighliebtbücher #queerart #autobiography #essays #mentalhealth
Trans Rights Readathon 2024 Wrap Up 🏳️⚧️ The Readathon was a blast! I managed to fulfill my goal of reading 5 books and donated 5€ for each to the Finnish Seta organisation. Some of my friends also pitched in so the total amount was 35€ 👍🏼 I enjoyed all of the books I read and got many amazing recommendations to fill my tbr from the other participants 😍 What was your favourite read this TRR? ☺️ #transrightsreadathon #trr24 #bookstagram #transbooks #twospiritbooks #indigiqueerbooks #lgbtqiabooks #nonfiction #nonfictionbooks #yabooks #magicalrealism #graphicnovel #historybooks #scifibooks #speculativefiction #lakelore #annamariemclemore #paperplanes #jenniewoods #micahmyers #dozerdraws #blackonbothsides #crileysnorton #theseep #danaporter #jonnyappleseed #joshuawhitehead #readingwrapup #readathon
What this week? / Mitä tällä viikolla? I got tagged on the #whatthisweek challenge, kiitos @kukkupilvela 🩵 tägistä ! 🌚 Luen / I’m reading Now (nyt luennassa) Ia Genberg: The Details (Yksityiskohdat) Other reads (muita luettuja) Alison Cochrun: The Charm Offensive Sara Al Husaini: Huono tyttö Dolly Alderton: Ghosts (Haaveita) Kuuntelen / I’m listening Only podcasts here friends! @thestackspod constantly on my ears this week. Vain podia tullut kuunneltua tällä viikolla. Katson / I’m watching Rewatching Game of Thrones one episode a night with my partner and occasionally Supernatural while I’m knitting. Puolison kanssa katsotaan Game of Thronesia jakso per ilta, ja neuloessa katselen lempiteinivuosien sarjaani Supernaturalia. 🌚 Pictured are the five books I aim to read next this weekend by joining #paprunlukumaraton (bookathon?readathon?). 🩵 Joshua Whitehead (editor): Love After the End 🩵 Camila Sosa Villada: Bad Girls 🩵 Etaf Rum: A Woman Is No Man 🩵 Etaf Rum: Evil Eye 🩵 Nick Brooks: Promise Boys Kuvassa pitkän viikonlopun lukumaratonin lukulistalla olevat kirjat. 🌚 I tagged a few bookstagram accounts on the post feel free to partake if you haven’t already. 🩵 #bookathon #bookstagram #bookstagramfinland #books #bookrecommendations #bookpicture #readathon #kirjagram #kirjagramsuomi #lukumaraton #kirja #kirjavinkki #kirjakuva #joshuawhitehead #camilasosavillada #etafrum #nickbrooks
My current reads on Day 4 of the #transrightsreadathon #lostintheneverwoods #aidenthomas #jonnyappleseed #joshuawhitehead #readdiversebooks
~~Trans Rights Readathon has started~~ My brain these days is like stale jello getting pushed through a fine sieve so we'll see how much I can read this week but I'm hopeful I'll finish at least two of these books! I started "The Dead Take the A Train" this morning and The Hu has been mentioned so I'm already intrigued. The Readathon focuses on books written by authors who are trans / nonbinary / two spirit or have characters who are trans / nonbinary / two spirit. My TBR hopefuls for the Readthon are: ✨The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw ✨I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself by Marisa Crane ✨Making Love with the Land by Joshua Whitehead (this is in the bookstack but it turns out that while 2S, Whitehead identifies as cis, so it'll be on the back burner) ✨The Dead Take the A Train by Cassandra Khaw and Richard Kadrey Is there more than one Cassandra Khaw book on the list? Yes, because we're supporting our fellow Malaysian enbys 🇲🇾 Any opinions on what I should prioritize after A Train? . . . . . #thedeadtaketheatrain #cassandrakhaw #richardkadrey #joshuawhitehead #makinglovewiththeland #thesaltgrowsheavy #ikeepmyexoskeletonstomyself #transrightsreadathon
Trans Rights Readathon ✨ Join the Trans Rights Readathon on March 22-29! 🏳️⚧️ I pledge to read 5 books during the readathon and donate 5€ for each book to the Finnish @seta_ry 🏳️🌈 The Trans Rights Readathon is an annual call to action to readers and book lovers in support of Trans Day of Visibility (TDOV) on March 31st. “We are calling on the reader community to read and uplift books written by and/or featuring trans, genderqueer, nonbinary, gender-nonconforming, and 2Spirit authors and characters.” Read more and join at @transrightsreadathon ✨ #bookstagram #transrightsreadathon #transrightsreadathon2024 #transvisibility #transbooks #lgbtqbooks #nonbinarybooks #2spiritbooks #genderqueerbooks #fantasybooks #nonfiction #yabooks #fictionbooks #graphicnovels #historybooks #scifibooks #speculativefiction #lakelore #annamariemclemore #paperplanes #jenniewoods #micahmyers #dozerdraws #blackonbothsides #crileysnorton #theseep #danaporter #jonnyappleseed #joshuawhitehead #diversereads
#TBT to the Avie Bennett Literature Matters Lecture 2024! Thank you to everyone who attended, and special thank you to #EdenRobinson and #JoshuaWhitehead for sharing their insights on everything from storytelling to representation to Indigenous joy. #LiteratureMatters #UofTEnglish . Image descriptions: Slide 1: Eden Robinson sits on-stage, speaking into a microphone. In front of her is a coffee table with two waterbottles. Behind her are black curtains and the bottom half of a projector screen. To her right is Prof. Smaro Kamboureli Slide 2: Joshua Whitehead, speaking into the microphone, on the other side of the stage from Eden. To his left is Prof. Smaro Kamboureli Slide 3: From left: Joshua, Eden and Smaro sitting together, smiling for the camera
📕 Johnny Appleseed ✍️ Joshua Whitehead This novel follows the main character, Johnny, a two spirit indigiqueer person, through a series of memories of being brought up on the ‘rez’ by his grandmother and mother. It’s great to see a story about a two spirit queer person, but unfortunate the book found me lost with memories often overlapping or being told in parallel with no true connection. I’m proud of this author, being a fellow queer Canadian - but had higher hopes walking into reading the book than I got by reading the book. 3 ⭐️ Book 6 of 2024 #Bookstagram #books #booklover #booknerd #bookreview #ilovebooks #book #bookworm #reading #readinglist #read #readinglife #readstagram #readersofinstagram #gayswhoread #gayreader #bookclub #bookgram #bookcommunity #johnnyappleseed #joshuawhitehead #queer #queerbook #twospirit
This book was very different to anything I've read before. And this is also the first time I'm reading from this author too, though I have other books from them on my TBR. ~ I don't know whether I actually understood much of what was being said throughout the book, I won't lie. I think sometimes this is why I don't find nonfiction books to be entirely accessible for me because I don't always understand the content in them. But that's not the fault of the book nor the author, that's an issue with myself. ~ Overall, I think that this book was very informative about issues I personally don't have a lot of knowledge on. • QOTD: Who is your favourite musician? (It can be a band or solo artist) * * #bookwormproblems #bookchallenge #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #readersofinstagram #bestbooks #bookaholic #readmorebooks #bookstagramfeature #bookaccount #readinglife #bookishlife #bookblogger #booklover #bookstagrammers #bookstagramuk #lgbt #queerread #nonfiction #essays #autobiography #memoir #creativeessay #2spirit #transgenderauthor #makinglovewiththeland #joshuawhitehead #blues2024reads
Literatures Matter event at UofT last night with Eden Robinson and Joshua Whitehead (@jwhitehead204)! A much needed evening of joy and laughter 🧡 Eden Robinson shared a story with us about Monkey Beach, her dad, and how she came to write the book. She made all of us feel like we were sitting at a coffee table with just her, listening and having a conversation. I already knew she was a powerful storyteller through writing and yesterday showed she is just as incredible in the oral form. It was such a privilege to finally see her in-person after reading and loving her books for years. Joshua Whitehead, in his signature voice that blends genres and literary conventions, wrote and shared a powerful piece on Indigenous joy and futurisms. In the conversation with the authors afterwards, he commented on how academia tends to try to separate creative and critical writing when in reality, they are siblings. I shared with him at the book signing how much Making Love with the Land impacted me when I started my PhD program, and how I loved hearing him speak in-person after hearing him on audiobook in my car 😅 Both of these authors are not only brilliant and insightful, but they are so funny. They had the entire hall laughing and crying with them. Their laughter and joy is so infectious and warm and it was such a privilege to see them in Toronto together last night. There were also some authors in the audience and I was trying hard not to freak out while looking around 👀 Larissa Lai (author of The Tiger Flu) and Cody Caetano (author of Half-Bads in White Regalia) were in the audience, and I thought I spied Souvankham Thammavongsa (author of How to Pronounce Knife) and Ian Williams (author of Reproduction) too!
Join the Trans Rights Readathon on March 22-29! 🏳️⚧️ I pledge to read 5 books during the readathon and donate 5€ for each book to the Finnish @seta_ry 🏳️🌈 Swipe to see my TBR 🤩 The Trans Rights Readathon is an annual call to action to readers and book lovers in support of Trans Day of Visibility (TDOV) on March 31st. “We are calling on the reader community to read and uplift books written by and/or featuring trans, genderqueer, nonbinary, gender-nonconforming, and 2Spirit authors and characters.” Read more and join at @transrightsreadathon ✨ #bookstagram #transrightsreadathon #transrightsreadathon2024 #transvisibility #transbooks #lgbtqbooks #nonbinarybooks #2spiritbooks #genderqueerbooks #fantasybooks #nonfiction #yabooks #fictionbooks #graphicnovels #historybooks #scifibooks #speculativefiction #lakelore #annamariemclemore #paperplanes #jenniewoods #micahmyers #dozerdraws #blackonbothsides #crileysnorton #theseep #danaporter #jonnyappleseed #joshuawhitehead #diversereads
Single session tickets now LIVE! If you aren’t able to come the whole weekend but DYING to see one or two of these speakers or musicians : now is your chance! https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/foundfest-tickets-810856562807?aff=InstaFest . . . #foundfest #foundfestival #yycnow #yycmusic #yyccountrymusic #albertacountrymusic #cochraneloveslocal #cochranebusiness #cochrane #cochranealberta #cochranemoms #cochraneab #cochranenow #yycevents #storytelling #joshuawhitehead #vivekshraya #julievanrosendaal #dinnerwithjulie #dallassmith
Caydence & Tupaj are excited to share these amazing upcoming events with you! 🔲Tomorrow night : “Not Your Average Trivia Night” hosted by Tupaj & Keelyn & joined by the @townofcochrane . Free event some fun prizes up for grabs! . 🔳Saturday: we are proud to be apart of @cochranecnoy ! We will see you there! . 🔲Saturday night: @bighillchill is happening : ginormous igloo, live music & ice chute bar on top of Cochrane & all with a full moon. Get tickets!! . 🔳Monday: Strings & Frets! Mix of open mic and jam session - $5 at the door. . 🔲Tuesday 8am is our next Biz Book Club meet-up! (Email coming soon book club!) 🔳And of course … next weekend Mar 1-3 @foundfestival is ON! Get tickets stat for this! 🔲Our next book club box is out with only a few left for the taking! . . . #foundbookshop #foundbooks #cochraneevents #yycevents #icebar #foundfest #foundfestival #vivekshraya #joshuawhitehead #dallassmith #julievanrosendaal #dinnerwithjulie #katestevens #yyclivemusic #yycnow #yycliving #cochranealberta #cochraneab #visitcochraneab #cochranemoms #bookish #yycbookstagram
Weaving the art of human expression and experience is no straightforward task. Storytelling comes in a truly infinite number of shapes, and it is our privilege as human beings to be able to stand on either end of the stories we tell each other. These six reads cover the different relationships we form with stories: writer, reader, critic, activist — and all the shades in between. Read the whole list on our blog today! #ReadLocal #AWorkInProgress #BradCotton #NowOrNeverPublishing #TheEarthRemembersEverything #AdrienneFitzpatrick #CaitlinPress #WhatthePoetsAreDoing #RobTaylor #HarbourPublishing #Indigiqueerness #JoshuaWhitehead #AngieAbdou #UBC Press #Craftivism #BetsyGreer #ArsenalPulpPress #AddressingOurWords #ArmandGarnetRuffo #GregYoungIng #TheytusBooks @arsenalpulp @caitlinpress.daggereditions @harbour_publishing @ubcpress @theytus_books Pictured: Six book covers float over a warm, colourful gradient backdrop.
Indigiqueerness by Joshua Whitehead, with Angie Abdou, pictured here on a woven blue and white placemat. Swipe to see an excerpt from today’s newsletter (text in pinned comment). This is a short but beautifully dense book about language, grief, making art, reading. It’s a mix of interview questions and responses, photo collages, excerpts from Whitehead’s work. The structure is wonderfully queer, open, and collaborative. It’s full of portals that led me to places outside the book. I couldn’t stop thinking about collaboration as I was reading this. Whitehead talks about his characters as collaborators. He writes about Cree understandings of aliveness, and how the idea of animation (another kind of collaboration) is central to Cree worldviews. Everything he has to say about language is about collaboration. He doesn’t doesn’t translate Cree words because he wants non-Cree readers to do some work. So many white readers talk about getting lost in texts full of untranslated language. But I see this kind of writing as an invitation for collaboration. If the book sits outside your knowledge and experience, you’re being invited in as collaborator instead of a passive observer. What a gift. The #QueerYourYear book club picked this for the anti-colonial book prompt. For me, it illuminates one of the fundamental violences of white western culture: our resistance to collaboration. This insistence on non-porous boundaries, on provenance. Whose book is this? Of course it’s Whitehead’s book. But who does he belong to? And when I read it—in curiosity, in work, following its portals—then it begins to belong, also, to me. And who do I belong to? Continued in pinned comment. #JoshuaWhitehead #Indigiqueerness #QueerBookstagram #QueerYourYearBookClub
Romance is about my favorite goddamned thing about being human. But these seem to all the love stories I could find? . . Chemistry - Weike Wang Communion - bell hooks Bonjour Tristesse - Francoise Sagan For Whom the Bell Tolls - whatshisname Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert Luster - Raven Leilani The Abortion - Richard Brautigan Happy All the Time - Laurie Colwin An American Marriage - Tayari Jones Writers & Lovers - Lily King Lucy by the Sea - Elizabeth Strout Jonny Appleseed - Joshua Whitehead Truth and Beauty - Ann Patchett . . . #WeikeWang #bellhooks #BonjourTristesse #FrancoiseSagan #ForWhomtheBellTolls #ErnestHemingway #MadameBovary #GustaveFlaubert #Luster #RavenLeilani #RichardBrautigan #theAbortion #HappyAllTheTime #LaurieColwin #AnAmericanMarriage #TayariJones #LilyKing #WritersandLovers #LucyByTheSea #ElizabethStrout #JonnyAppleseed #JoshuaWhitehead #AnnPatchett #TruthandBeauty
Who are you most excited to see? 🤩 Tickets go on sale today at 5pm. Lots lined up over the weekend! More details can be found @foundfestival & www.foundbookshop.com/foundfest . . . #foundbookshop #foundbooks #foundfest #foundfestival #vivekshraya #julievanrosendaal #dinnerwithjulie #jvr #dallassmith #joshuawhitehead #bookfestival #musicfestival #bookstagram #yycbookstagram #yycbookstore #yycliving #yycnow #cochranenow #cochranealberta #cochraneab #cochranemoms #yyclife
We are VERY pleased to announce speaker @jwhitehead204 !! Joshua Whitehead (he/him) is a Two-Spirit, Oji-nêhiyaw member of Peguis First Nation (Treaty 1). He is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary where he is housed in the departments of English and International Indigenous Studies (Treaty 7). He is the author of full-metal indigiqueer (Talonbooks 2017) which was shortlisted for the inaugural Indigenous Voices Award and the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry. He is also the author of Jonny Appleseed (Arsenal Pulp Press 2018) which was long listed for the Giller Prize, shortlisted for the Indigenous Voices Award, the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Amazon Canada First Novel Award, the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award, and won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction, the Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction and Canada Reads 2021. Whitehead is the editor of Love after the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction, which won the Lambda Award in 2021. Whitehead’s latest book Making Love with the Land was published in 2022 with Knopf Canada, exploring the intersections of Indigeneity, queerness, and, most prominently, mental health through a nêhiyaw lens. The book was shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Award for Nonfiction. You can also find his work published widely in such venues as Prairie Fire, CV2, EVENT, Arc Poetry Magazine, The Fiddlehead, Grain, CNQ, Write, and Red Rising Magazine. . . . #foundbookshop #foundfest #foundfestival #joshuawhitehead #jonnyappleseed #indigenousauthors #twospirit #meettheartist #meetthespeaker #yycnow #yyclife #yycliving #yycevents #yycevent #cochranenow #cochranealberta #cochraneab #visitcochraneab
📚 January Reading Wrap Up 📚 Template by @karlis_library 📖 Wreck The Halls by @tessabaileyisanauthor ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 📚 Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 📖 The Secret History of Christmas by @billbryson8394 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 📚 3 books read 📚 1,306 pages read 📖 Top genres: Romance, LGBTQIA+, Literary, History, Contemporary 📚 Average rating: 4.0 #januaryreadingwrapup #wreckthehalls #tessabailey #jonnyappleseed #joshuawhitehead #thesecrethistoryofchristmas #billbryson
One of my goals is to read more this year (not a new years resolution, bc i don't do those, which is why I started working on it back in December). I aim for 50 books by the end of the year. I thought posting it here may help keep me on track. Public failure may be a decent motivator. . . . #bookstagram #read #reading #bookcommunity #readinglist #readingchallenge #booksonpalestine #chomsky #octaviabutler #naomikleindoppelganger #angeladavis #socialjusticebooks #scifi #ursulakleguin #lgbtqbooks #joshuawhitehead
Making Love With the Land by Joshua Whitehead is a book of essays on Indigeneity and Queerness. It is deeply personal, at times raw with emotion and pain, and explores both the trauma and the joy that he has experienced. He connects all of this back to the deep seeded connection with the land and the responsibility that we all have to care for it and for one another. Some of the essays do contain graphic descriptions of his relationship with disordered eating and bulimia. There are also mentions of suicide and death. #books #reading #bookrecommendations #indigenous #queer #joshuawhitehead
February’s picks! JONNY APPLESEED by Joshua Whitehead - in which a queer NDN young man has to return home to the Rez after a long time away, and must put together the pieces of his life to see where he fits. JOHN DIES AT THE END by David Wong - a horror-comedy about John and David, two investigators of the supernatural who must ward off whatever is threatening to consume the human race. Because something is, that’s for sure. If you’re reading this, you probably know all about it. #horror #bookstagram #JohnDiesAtTheEnd #JonnyAppleseed #DavidWong #JoshuaWhitehead #queerfiction #cosmichorror #indigenousfiction #Winnipeg
Here are my favorite books of 2023! These are my top 3 fiction and top 3 nonfiction. What were your favorites of the year? I had a really good reading year over-all. Most of my books were 4 stars or higher! To see more of my top favorites, I've got my top 11(ish) favorite fiction books video up on YouTube and my top nonfiction will be up relatively soon. The books: - Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary by Miss Major Griffin-Gracy and Toshio Meronek - Dear Mothman by Robin Gow - Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigequeer Speculative Fiction edited by Joshua Whitehead - The Skin and Its Girl by Sarah Cypher - The Big Reveal: An Illustrated Manifesto of Drag by Sasha Velour - Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman by Leslie Feinberg [Image description: Bek's hand is holding up the stack of books in front of a black bookshelf.] #boostagram #2023favorites #favoritebooks #bookrecommendations #lgbtbooks #queerbooks #bookstack #memoir #gayhistory #queerhistory #middlegrade #litfic #shortstories #mismajorspeaks #missmajor #toshiomeronek #dearmothman #robingow #loveaftertheend #joshuawhitehead #theskinanditsgirl #Sarah cipher #thebigreveal #sashavelour #transgenderwarrior #lesliefeinberg
Inidigiqueerness is a January book club pick for #queeryouryear hosted by @openbookopen - and though I’m normally too slow and delinquent to participate in book clubs, this one is really short, and had no waitlist at the library! Indiqueerness collages interview questions from Angie Abdou with Joshua Whitehead’s answers and reflections, as well as photos of and by the author, Cree and English definitions of key terms, and excerpts from texts that have informed Whitehead’s artistic practice. This multi-media format visualizes the lateral connections across themes of indigeneity, anti-colonialism, Two-Spirit, writer, anime fan, etc. One theme that Abdou and Whitehead explore is the creation of things for you and things not for you. Abdou asks a question here about language and translation, and how much you explain to the reader and how much you would expect them to meet you or accept that they won’t understand if something isn’t for them. In this passage, Whitehead describes a word game that two characters play in his novel Jonny Appleseed. Jonny and Tias use words from Cree and Anishinaabemowin to shapeshift their meanings and uses, creating multilingual private jokes. I love this for them, and it makes me want to read Jonny Appleseed, even though these linguistic magic tricks are not for me. It makes me think of Babel (Kuang), and how the colonial tendency is to want to understand everything, and then make it work for you, which in the case of American colonialism, means accessible to English-speakers. I’m also reminded of Liliana Ancalao’s trilingual poetry collection, which asks English and Spanish readers to face her indigenous Mapudungun language. Tea: 2014 Phalap from Xin An Chu, ~3g in 70mL, 20s first steep after a quick wash and then shorter steeps after. The first steep has a strong smoky flavor but a surprisingly light and clear body for a dark tea! Strong pine notes, as well as fresh olive oil. Later steeps take on a fuller body, like a smoky olive focaccia. Utterly perfect with a veg white bean stew. #cyndisreadinglist #queeryouryear #booksandtea #indigenousliterature #joshuawhitehead
Joshua Whitehead (in conversation with Angie Abdou), Indigiqueerness (2023) I don’t know why I keep reading Joshua Whitehead during winter storms, but somehow I do. I read Making Love with the Land (2022) largely crouched on the floor of my local library during the great ice storm-power outage of February 2023 (I absolutely loved it—see my 2/27/23 post). And I read Indigiqueerness, one of our picks this month for the #QueerYourYear book club, in the wake of another snowstorm-power outage this weekend. This book is very short—honestly, it’s more of an essay in chapters (which count down from 10 to 1). There are questions from Angie Abdou, but the book consists mostly of Whitehead’s reflections on various themes related to indigeneity, queerness, and his process as a writer. A short list of things that struck me here: reflections on how conversations in his community shaped the topics Whitehead addresses in his writing, and gratitude to many kinds of teachers. The definitions of Cree and English words. Whitehead’s interest in the idea of consumption, something that has really stuck with me from Making Love with the Land. Whitehead’s deep love for rural queerness, which necessarily also comes in the form of a defense. Reflections on the process of writing Jonny Appleseed, which I now really want to read! This book is both casual and smart, full of humor and earnestness. Described as “part collage,” it includes a range of images and quotes among the text. It would teach well, in full or in part, and paired with many other texts. It left me feeling even more excited about Whitehead as thinker and writer. And it’s free to read online or download from @au_press!
Learn more about Joshua Whitehead in this post! #joshuawhitehead #indigenousvoices
INDIGIQUEERNESS: A CONVERSATION ABOUT STORYTELLING between Joshua Whitehead and Angie Abdou had me delving deeply into why I read, how I read, and what I expect as a reader when I encounter a new text. For me, reading has always been about exploration and journeying into new worlds or ideas or lives. From the time I was young I’ve sought reading experiences that transported me. Which is why conversations about the “relatability” of texts have always puzzled me a bit. Yes, there are pieces of many texts in which I see myself reflected, but vastly many more in which I do not, and isn’t that part of the point of the whole beautiful undertaking? Increasingly, as an adult, I’ve reflected on the fact that some of the biggest lessons I can learn from books are actually in the spaces in which a book seems explicitly NOT tailored to or addressed to or written for me. Which is why I loved learning about Joshua Whitehead’s approach to storytelling. Whitehead is a Two-Spirit, Oji-Cree member of the Peguis First Nation and in the conversation that unfolds within INDIGIQUEERNESS, describes his take on reading as a “collaborative endeavor.” He says, “My decision not to translate also asks readers to put in some work and meet Indigenous literature part way, as I’m consistently meeting canonical literature part way.” This engagement, to me, is the beauty of reading. So many written works are, inevitably, the literal blood, sweat, and tears of their authors. And particularly so outside of the “canonical literature” space that Whitehead alludes to. As he says, “The physical bodies that we inhabit and all the archives of memory and pain and love that we house as BIPOC and queer writers and women writers as well and disabled writers mean we don’t have the ability to not have an umbilical cord attached to our books. We’re regurgitants. Both the body of the text and the physical body nourish and feed each other.” And they have the power to nourish and feed readers as well if readers are willing to step a little further. To meet the text and its author and its characters in their full humanity. To do the research. I know I’m always always always a better reader and human for it.
“For, as we know, we have already survived the apocalypse—this, right here, right now, is a dystopian present. What better way to imagine survivability than to think about how we may flourish into being joyously animated rather than merely alive?” -Joshua Whitehead LOVE AFTER THE END: AN ANTHOLOGY OF TWO-SPIRIT & INDIGIQUEER SPECULATIVE FICTION, edited by Joshua Whitehead, presents a series of utopian stories about love and survival. Featuring AI, cyborgs, floating cities and newly terraformed planets, the authors in this anthology imaginatively show us futures that center queer Indigenous communities while discussing topics like kinship, ethics and colonialism. Most of these stories are set after an apocalyptic event, but the apocalypse is not the focus, neither are the speculative elements. The focus is connection. It’s about loving the land and respecting the earth. It’s about every type of love. It’s about connecting to ancestors and trusting their wisdom. It’s about staying true to yourself and what you believe in. Every single story is full of love and hope as the characters resist and survive, showing us that love and community will keep us together and help us move forward. LOVE AFTER THE END serves as a powerful reminder that a kinder future is possible. This book reminded me a lot of River Solomon’s SORROWLAND—both books are so tender and quiet in the ways they resist colonialism. The revolutions in these books take place on a smaller scale, but they are no less mighty. Image description: a paperback copy of the book stands in the corner of a white windowsill. #LoveAfterTheEnd #JoshuaWhitehead #SpeculativeFiction #SciFi #SFFBooks #BookLove #BookRecommendations #IGReads #Bookstagram #CanadianBookstagram
Our series WRITING THE LAND rebroadcasts tomorrow afternoon on CBC at 1:30 PM! With new episodes every Sunday in January! In this episode, LIGHT, we take a deep dive into the works of Esi Edugyan, Uzma Jalaluddin and Joshua Whitehead. #cbcarts #cbcgem #cbc #joshuawhitehead #esiedugayan #uzmajalaluddin #stephanieweimar
Favorite Books of 2023: Honorable Mentions I always make a list of my 25 favorite books of the year, which is an excellent challenge for me. I’ve been sharing those books in my stories, and will share the full list tomorrow. I’ve gotten attached to having a list of 25, but I also wanted to take the chance to shout out a few more books that really stuck with me this year. So here are 12 books that just missed my list. These are books I’d like to sit with; books I might want to teach from someday; books that challenged me; books that changed how I think and feel. Some of these reshaped time, were instructively slow reads. Others remapped space, especially western space, in new ways. I created the honorable mention list in part because I’ve seen little attention to most of them on here, so I encourage you to check some of them out! List, where *denotes the date of my post about a book: Erin Sharkey, A Darker Wilderness (2023) *1/22 Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School (2022) *2/20 Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land (2022) *2/27 Kai Cheng Thom, From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea (2017) *3/25 Paisley Rekdal, West: A Translation (2023) *3/30 Victor LaValle, Lone Women (2023) *7/3 Kirstin Valdez Quade, The Five Wounds (2021) *8/21 Oliver de la Paz, The Diaspora Sonnets (2023) *9/20 Aaliyah Bilal, Temple Folk (2023) *11/5 Brinda Charry, The East Indian (2023) *11/15 Bishakh Som, Apsara Engine (2020) *11/19 Erika Howsare, The Age of Deer (2024) *12/25
“An elder told me once that I could heal myself of my drinking habits if I went to a sweat lodge. He said that I’d have to wear something modest. I planned to go with my kokum, who was going to wear a long skirt adorned with ribbons that she had made. I loved it so much that I asked if she could make me one. She smiled, sent me home with a slab of bannock, and when I returned the next day, she had sewn me one just like hers. But when we arrived at the sweat lodge, the elder wouldn’t let me in. ‘Modesty,’ he repeated, ‘is key.’ My skirt apparently did not meet his ceremonial expectations; he told me to take it off and put on a pair of XXL Adidas shorts he had, or to return at another date in proper attire. While my kokum argued with him in Cree, I flipped him off and stormed back to the van. It turns out that tradition is an NDN’s saving grace, but it’s a medicine reserved only for certain members of the reservation, and not for self-ordained Injun glitter princesses like me. This tradition repeats throughout my life: I’m expected to chop wood for ceremonies rather than knead fry-bread, learn how to hunt with my uncles rather than knit with my aunties, perform the Fancy Feather dance when I really want to do the Jingle Dress dance. ‘Man up’ was the mantra of my childhood and teenage years, because the dick between my legs wasn’t enough proof of ownership of NDN manhood. There are a million parts of me that don’t add up, a million parts of me that signal immodesty. When I think of masculinity, I think of femininity. Everything’s finished in beauty.” Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed . . . Tags: . . . #JoshuaWhitehead #JonnyAppleseed #JonnyAppleseednovel #JonnyAppleseedanovel #Indigenous #IndigenousArt #IndigenousWriters #IndigenousAuthor #IndigenousReads #NativeAmericanLiterature #readIndigenous #NativeWriters #ReadIndigenousAuthors #ReadIndigenousWriters #bookrecommendations #bookrecommendation #bookrecs #whattoreadnext #readthis #recommendedreading #readthisbook #irecommend
. 2020'de İzlediğim 68.Film: Greatest Events of WWII in Colour Orjinal Adı: #GreatestEventsOfWWIIinColour Türkçe Adı: #İkinciDünyaSavaşınınEnMüthişOlayları Yönetmen: #NickyBolster - #KasiaUscinska - #JoshuaWhitehead - #KatieBoxer - #AilsaFereday - #SamTaplin Anlatıcı: #DerekJacobi Yıl: 2019 Ülke: İngiltere Süre: 50 dk. Toplam 10 Bölüm İzleme Tarihim: 15 - 18 Mayıs 2020 Yer: Evimde . Not: Harika harika harika... İzlediğim en iyi belgeseller arasına girdi. Ve kesinlikle zaman geçsin bir kez daha izleyeceğim. 2.Dünya Savaşı'nın en önemli olaylarını renkli görüntülerle anlatıyor. Savaşın çeşitli önemli anlarını renkli görüntülerle sunduğu için, o döneme ait daha canlı ve gerçekçi bir bakış açısıyla anlama imkanı oluyor izlerken. Genellikle savaşın önemli dönemlerini, stratejik hamleleri, çatışmaları ve tarihi kararları ele alıyor. Pearl Harbor’dan, D-Day’e, Dresden’den Hiroşima’ya kadar birçok önemli olay, 50’şer dakikalık 10 bölümde… . #YedinciOdaSinemaKulübü
Year end library bookstack! Thanks, @missoulapubliclibrary 😍 #chaingangallstars #nanakwameadjeibrenyah #veschwab #thefragilethreadsofpower #laylilongsoldier #whereas #adriennemariebrown #pleasureactivism #calluswhatwecarry #amandagorman #loveinthebigcity #sangyoungpark #apowerunbound #freyamarske #harrowtheninth #tamsynmuir #theannualmigrationofclouds #premeemohamed #eeottoman #thecompanion #johnnyappleseed #joshuawhitehead #vanessalen #onlyamonster #whenthetigercamedownthemountain #nghivo #thedeadtaketheatrain #cassandrakhaw
Listened to Johnny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead #johnnyappleseed #joshuawhitehead #libbyapp
✨🌲My current reads in Christmas Lighting🌲 ✨ . 📚Love After The End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit & Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction edited by Joshua Whitehead. . 📚River Spirit by Leila Aboulela. . Learning about other cultures never grows old for me in my reading, and these two explore Indigiqueer experiences and historical experiences of Sudan under apartheid rule. . #currentlyreading #currentreads #sudaneseauthors #indigiqueer #nativeamericanheritage #historicalfiction #joshuawhitehead #leilaaboulela
“I write this book with the goal of showing you that Two-Spirit and queer Indigenous folx are not a ‘was,’ that we are not the ethnographic and romanticized notations of ‘revered mystic’ or ‘shamanic,’ instead we are an IS and a COMING. In nehiyawewin, there are no masculine or feminine attributes, instead we have animations in which we hold all our relationships. We are accountable to those kin, be they inanimate or non-human, or be they unabashedly queer, femme, bottom, pained, broken. We put our most vulnerable in the centre and for once I do just that: 2S folx and Indigenous women are centered here. I hold our relations accountable to us for once. Jonny has taught me a lot of things but there are two that I want to share with you: one, a good story is always a healing ceremony, we recuperate, re-member, and rejuvenate those we storytell into the world; and two, if we animate our pain, it becomes something we can make love to.” -Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed . . . Tags: . . . #JoshuaWhitehead #JonnyAppleseed #JonnyAppleseednovel #JonnyAppleseedanovel #Indigenous #IndigenousArt #IndigenousWriters #IndigenousAuthor #IndigenousReads #NativeAmericanLiterature #readIndigenous #NativeWriters #ReadIndigenousAuthors #ReadIndigenousWriters #bookrecommendations #bookrecommendation #bookrecs #whattoreadnext #readthis #recommendedreading #readthisbook #irecommend
It's Indigenous Peoples' Month and we love celebrating queer Indigenous authors and stories all year round. Here are a few of our favorites, best sellers, and a new release we're excited about! Into the Bright Open by Cherie Dimaline (young adult) Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer (not queer, but we made an exception for this one because we get so many specific requests for it—and it's amazing) (nature) Love After the End edited by Joshua Whitehead (short story anthology) Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger (young adult) Movements and Moments edited by Sonja Eismann (non-fiction) Image description: The books listed above are stacked on a hand in front of colorful shelves. The copy of Into the Bright Open is standing on top of the others with the cover face out. The cover has a young girl sitting in a field of bright red flowers with blue butterflies.
Books to read for Trans* Awareness week, AND all year long 🏳️⚧️🩷🩵 Also, can you tell how much I love Freydis Moon's books? 🥰 Slide 2 books: ♡ ponyboy - eliot duncan ♡ With a Vengeance - Freydis Moon ♡ Three Kings - Freydis Moon ♡ Exodus 20:3 - Freydis Moon ♡ Lord of Silver Ashes - Kellen Graves ♡ How Not to Date a Dragon - Lana Kole Slide 3 books: ♡ The Fox and the Dryad - Kellen Graves ♡ Bellies - Nicola Dinan ♡ Tales from Blackthorn Briar - Sebastian Nothwell ♡ Beyond the Gender Binary - Alok Vaid-Menon ♡ Love After the End - Edited by Joshua Whitehead ♡ Pageboy - Elliot Page Slide 4 books: ♡ Heart, Haunt, Havoc - Freydis Moon ♡ Detransition, Baby - Torrey Peters ♡ A Safe Girl to Love - Casey Plett ♡ I'm Afraid of Men - Vivek Shraya ♡ Please Miss - Grace E. Lavery ♡ it was never going to be okay - jaye simpson #Book #Books #Bookstagram #Bookstagrammer #TransAwarenessWeek #TransAwareness #TransRights #EliotDuncan #FreydisMoon #KellenGraves #JayeSimpson #GraceELavery #VivekShraya #CaseyPlett #TorreyPeters #AlokVaidMenon #ElliotPage #JoshuaWhitehead #SebastianNothwell #LanaKole #NicolaDinan
ℕ𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕧𝕖 𝔸𝕞𝕖𝕣𝕚𝕔𝕒𝕟 ℍ𝕖𝕣𝕚𝕥𝕒𝕘𝕖 𝕄𝕠𝕟𝕥𝕙 ℝ𝕖𝕔𝕤 🪶🇺🇸🪶🇺🇸🪶🇺🇸🪶 Native American Heritage Month is used to not only celebrate indigenous culture and heritage but to also bring awareness to the issues that are unique to our community. Issues such as systematic racism, lack of access to healthcare, lack of employment opportunities and education, extremely high rates of violence against women, tribal sovereignty, as well as environmental issues such as water contamination are only a handful of problems that native Americans living on reservation land face. In honor of Native American Heritage Month, I am sharing my list of favorite books by Indigenous authors. As a member of the Blackfeet nation, I am here to say that all of these stories accurately represent the Indigenous people and feature the issues Indigenous people face. I organized these recommendations based on genre so let me know if you decide to give any of these a try! 🪶🇺🇸🪶🇺🇸🪶🇺🇸🪶 𝐐𝐎𝐓𝐃: Do you have a favorite book by an Indigenous author? Or have you read any of these? 🪶🇺🇸🪶🇺🇸🪶🇺🇸🪶 . . . . . #nativeamericanheritagemonth #indigenousheritagemonth #indigenousbooks #indigenousbookstagram #indigenousauthors #vanessalillie #stephengrahamjones #joshuawhitehead #morgantalty #brandonhobson
Non fiction November 2023 Has begun, and I wanted to share some memoirs I have read this year that are still living in my head and inspiring you to delve into that non fiction on your shelf and share your favorite quotes or life lessons that stood out to you. So I’m starting a new hashtag #️⃣ #memoirquotes #lifelessonsquotes well, maybe 2 new hashtags. Please share in comments a memoir that you have liked and read. #nonfictionbooks #nonfictionnovember #nonfictionmemoirs #memoirs #nonfictionbookparty #wolfish #erikaberry #cryinginhmart #michellezauner #guardiansofthetrees #kinariwebb #1000yearsofjoysandsorrows #alweiwei #sisteroutsider #audrelorde #jamaicakincaid #mybrother #amykenny #mybodyisnotaprayerrequest #disabledvoicesanthology #disabledvoices #cominghome #sawyercolehobson #transmemoirs #makinglovewiththeland #joshuawhitehead #mayaangelou
Is this how any of y’all live, too? I get some reading time and I bring a stack over and read through a bunch of ‘em. You, too? Last night’s group was: Wener Herzog - Every Man For Himself and God Against All. I love this one, it is such a fun adventure read. Rasheed Newson - My Government Means to Kill Me. I love this one, too. I’m slowing down on my reading because it is so beautiful & I want to savor it. This is a fiction book with historical & cultural footnotes. I LOVE IT. Bodies Built For Game - edited by Natalie Diaz. Sport & lit together in an egalitarian, critical way. Grand! Melissa Broder - Death Valley. Ended up not picking this up last night. I had said that the last Broder I read would be my last, but I got drawn back in with Death Valley & Grief. Joshua Whitehead - Jonny Appleseed. Partway through this, appreciating a lot about it. Assata Shakur - Assata. I read this when I am working the box office at my venue side hustle. It’s an amazing re-read, and easy to give immediate concentration to between work tasks. Liz Prince - Tomboy. Didn’t pick this up yet, haven’t started, but I used to love her zines and am happy to see this published book. Angela Davis autobiography - this is also a reread. Once I started Assata again, I was hyped to reread this one, which was one of the first books of my radicalization as a teen. RAD. Sowmya Krishnamurthy - Fashion Killa: How Hip-Hop Revolutionized High Fashion. Chapter one was fun as hell. . . . #WernerHerzog #EveryManForHimselfandGodAgainstAll #MyGovernmentMeanstoKillMe #RasheedNewson #BodiesBuiltForGame #NatalieDiaz #DeathValley #MelissaBroder #JonnyAppleseed #JoshuaWhitehead #AssataShakur #Assata #LizPrince #AngelaDavis #AngelaDavisAnAutobiography #SowmyaKrishnamurthy #FashionKilla #2023books #booksof2023
. Making Love With the Land by @jwhitehead204 Cover Design by @emmadolan Cover Art by @winnietron @knopfca . . . #bookcoverdesigns #bookcovers #coverdesign #charmingbookcovers #bookdesigns #bookcover #book #bookstagram #bookmagic #booklove #bookaddict #booklover #booksbooksbooks #coverart #bookcoverartist #bookshelf #bookshelves #booknerd #makinglovewiththeland #joshuawhitehead #emmadolan #winnietruong
Short non-fic book of insights into #jonnyappleseed and its author #joshuawhitehead #indigiqueerness is very good👍. Available in our ADS #schoollibrary
The company's upcoming triple bill includes a revival of the founder's Firebird along with works by George Balanchine and Joshua Whitehead dedicated to Christensen's work, values, and history. 🔗 Find a video, program, and ticket information at ⓁⒾⓃⓀ ⒾⓃ ⒷⒾⓄ 📷 @balletwest1 . . . #balletwest #willamchristensen #foundingfather #adamsklute #ballet #firebird #thefirebird #stravinsky #balanchine #starsandstripes @joshuawhitehe11 #joshuawhitehead #worldpremiere #saltlakecity #slc #balletherald
Without a doubt, Joshua Whitehead writes beautifully, so I couldn't wait to get my hands on Indigiqueerness: A Conversation About Storeytelling (in dialogue with Angie Abdou). This book is described as "part dialogue, part collage, and part memoir" (aupress.ca) and as "the DVD extras to his memoir" (Clayton Andres via GoodReads) and I can't think of better ways to sum this one up! Whitehead says this book is "a companion piece to Making Love With The Land," so it truly makes sense how these two connected in my mind. I think if you've read anything by Whitehead, this is one that can't be missed! It's such a quick read, but it really packs a punch. It answers questions, filling in a few blanks, but still leaves an air of mystery that sums up Whitehead. There's answers, but also more questions. I really do think it's best to have previous knowledge starting this book, and suggest reading Whitehead's work in published order. With each book I read of Whitehead's (Jonny Appleseed, Making Love With The Land and now this one), more layers are added, and each one is exquisite. In the last section Whitehead comments about the direction Indigenous literature is heading, and this book truly represents that non-clichéd path. It's a very autumn day here today. What's the weather like where you are? Thank you ZG Stories for the complimentary copy to read and review. ( #MrDReads2023 September: a book by and indie author)
New Stock Post Love After the End ▪︎ Edited by Joshua Whitehead A groundbreaking fiction anthology that showcases a number of new and emerging Two-Spirit and queer Indigenous writers from across Turtle Island. These visionary authors show how queer Indigenous communities can bloom and thrive through utopian narratives that detail the vivacity and strength of 2SQness throughout its plight in the maw of settler colonialism's histories. Here, readers will discover bio-engineered AI rats, transplanted trees in space, the rise of a 2SQ resistance camp, a primer on how to survive Indigiqueerly, virtual reality applications, motherships at sea, and the very bending of space-time continuums queered through NDN time. Contributors include Nathan Adler, Darcie Little Badger, Mari Kurisato, Kai Minosh Pyle, David A. Robertson, and jaye simpson. 2020. Paperback. Condition fine. $10 [SOLD] #JoshuaWhitehead #LoveAfterTheEnd #BardoBooks #UsedBooks #CuratedBooks #BookSeller #OnlineBookStore #Moncton #CityOfMoncton #LocalNB #ShopLocal #Reading #Bookstagram #Bookish #Books #ToBeRead #IGBooks #BooksOfInstagram #Writers #Fiction #Anthology #ArsenalPulpPress #JazminWelch #KentMonkman
modern ndn/ indigiqueer <3 started this for a school personal/cultural project last year and never finished it or the essay, but i still rly like it so voila . . . #queerart #indigiqueer #indigenous #ndn #modernndn #joshuawhitehead #jonnyappleseed #cherokee #queerartist #transartist
I was so intrigued when I saw this book that I bought and read it immediately. This is a collection of indigenous queer and 2Spirit short stories, mostly set at the end of the world. Instead of making the reader feel helpless or upset, each are complex + as optimistic as possible. I loved the differences in each story, especially as dystopia is my favorite genre. Seriously thought-provoking and providing much-needed representation in the genre! #loveaftertheend #queer #indigenous #shortstories #joshuawhitehead #twospirit #kindle #audible #audiobook #library #tbr #novel #nonfiction #book #books #bookshelf #booktok #bookstagram #amreading #igreads #read #fiction #love #history #bookworm #bibliophile #bookish #booktok #thebookwormhistorian
Have you read the @flux_twc Community Statement yet? Visit patreon.com/fluxtwc for full info Link in bio "The shift itself, the flux itself is a space. You can belong in a flux. You can be based in a flux. And you don’t have to be firm in one place or another. The flux takes you from place to place.” - Akwaeke Emezi Please note: obviously FLUX: T*WC is a trans* centred space, but due to the nature of the crossover between 'gender non-compliance' and neurodivergence (and the fact that the host, KR is both trans* and ND), it is also a neurodivergent centred space. Additionally though, we recognise that in order to centre those identities, we must be an anti-racist, anti-ableist, anti-colonial space as well. While we expect people to make mistakes as they learn and grow, we will obviously not tolerate any transphobia, homophobia, biphobia, lesbophobia, misogyny, or ableism - nor will we tolerate any racism or white supremacist behaviour, including, but not limited to, fatphobia, misogynoir, and colourism. This also means we are abolitionist by nature (anti-prisons and cops) and do not condone, promote, engage in, or tolerate 'cancel culture'. We recognise that Transness is rooted in pre-colonial and Indigenous epistemologies, and that many white trans* folx today (KR included) would never have known or named their Transness, if it wasn't for the lives, deaths, work, voices and representations of our Black, Indigenous, and Global Majority siblings and ancestors. FLUX: T*WC is particularly indebted to the following Black, Indigenous, and Global Majority trans* authors: Rivers Solomon, Kai Cheng Thom, Alok V Menon, Joshua Whitehead, Travis Alabanza, and of course, the GOAT: Akwaeke Emezi FLUX: T*WC uses trans* as an umbrella term that covers any and all people who are not, or think they may not be, aligned with their assigned gender at birth, or the 'gender binary' generally. #akwaekeemezi #riverssolomon #kaichengthom #alokvaidmenon #joshuawhitehead #travisalabanza #creativewriting #transwritersofinstagram #transwritingcommunity #transgender #communitybuilding #transwriter #nonbinary #gendernonconforming #2spirit
“writing cannot always be fueled by injury” Lyrical essay writing absolutely has risen up the ranks of my favorite things to read. Whitehead brings questions on queerness, Indigeneity, mental health, love, violence, and family to the page with a beautiful turn of phrase. His writing on what genre is??? AMAZING. If you enjoy ruminating on things - whether those things are small actions of violence against personhood or the categorization of what writing is this book will have something for you. Some of these essays I am hunting down to re-read and some weren't quite my cup of tea, but if you're one for first person essays I want to know what you think of this one. "I constantly ask myself if all writing is a form of mourning." #makinglovewiththeland #joshuawhitehead #bookstagram #essaywriting #essays #indigenousauthors #books #nonfiction #bookreview #readindigenous #indigenousauthors #firstnations #booklover #essaybook #bookquote #readqueerallyear #universityofminnesotapress
I got me some new books. How’d I do? . . Rick Rubin - The Creative Act: A Way of Being Leslie Jones - Lesie F*cking Jones: A Memoir Susannah Breslin - Data Baby: My Life in a Psychological Experiment Matthew Desmond - Poverty, by America Joshua Whitehead - Jonny Appleseed, a Novel Grace Perry - The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture Lauren Elkin - Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art Kim Osorio - Straight from The Source: An Expose From the Former Editor-In-Chief of the Hip-Hop Bible . . Thanks to the publishers for these ARCs! I’ll make separate posts once I have a chance to dig in. . . . #TheCreativeAct #TheCreativeActAWayofBeing #RickRubin #LeslieJones #LeslieFckingJones #DataBaby #SusannahBreslin #MatthewDesmond #PovertyByAmerica #JoshuaWhitehead #JonnyAppleseed #GracePerry #The2000sMadeMeGay #ArtMonsters #ArtMonstersUnrulyBodiesinFeministArt #LaurenElkin #KimOsorio #StraightFromTheSource #newbooks #Newbookstack #toberead
Fresh Banana Leaves author Jessica Hernandez writes, "In order to heal our environments, which are all Indigenous lands, we must incorporate Indigenous voices, perspectives, and lived experiences." Here are some of our favorite books highlighting Indigenous voices: To Be a Water Protector: The Rise of the Wiindigoo Slayers by Winona LaDuke Love After the End edited by Joshua Whitehead The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline Crazy Brave by Joy Harjo Fresh Banana Leaves by Jessica Hernandez 📚️linkin.bio @shopatmatter #WinonaLaDuke #FernwoodPublishing #JoshuaWhitehead #ArsenalPulpPress #CherieDimaline #DCB #JoyHarjo #WWNorton&Company #JessicaHernandez #NorthAtlanticBooks #reader #books #booklover #bookstagram #bookish #bookworm #bookaddic #booklove #bookstagrammer #bookclub #booksbooksbooks #writing #library #authorsofinstagram #bibliophile #bookrecommendations
After a little hiatus, we’re back! This week, Alex sits down with Joshua Whitehead to discuss his new essay collection, Making Love With The Land, the pits and pearls of academia, what it means to reject categorization, and Brandi Carlile. Link in bio 💫 . . . . #bookpodcast #joshuawhitehead #contemporarywriters #lit #contemporarywritersseries #montrealpodcast #booked #weirdera