Month: October 2019

This Place: 150 Years Retold is a powerhouse anthology of Indigenous stories, presented in graphic novel form by writers and artists like Katherena Vermette, Richard Van Camp, and Chelsea Vowel. Each writer takes a piece of history from 150 years of Indigenous-Settler relations in the land currently known as Canada, and conjures an immediate, emotional … Continue reading This Place: 150 Years Retold

How is Billy-Ray Belcourt. How? I picture him pulled from a bubbling golden pond of primordial goo, body fully-formed, mind sharp—sharper than any of us—bashful and steadfast. Billy-Ray Belcourt is a child prodigy. Billy-Ray Belcourt is a hunk. Billy-Ray Belcourt is a sad, sad queer. Billy-Ray Belcourt is a line in a poem. His poem. … Continue reading NDN Coping Mechanisms and This Wound is a World by Billy-Ray Belcourt