Podcast appearances and mentions of Joshua Whitehead

The neuroscientist-turned-pastry chef meets the bestselling author Jamie Chai Yun Liew for the first time; CBC Books senior producer Ryan B. Patrick and columnist Alicia Cox Thomson discuss rising Black Canadian writers; Joshua Whitehead recommends three books that centre queerness; and Dylan Sinclair shares his favourite book on this episode of The Next Chapter.Books discussed on this week's show include:Coexistence: Stories by Billy Ray BelcourtBlackouts by Justin TorresWhat I'd Rather Not Think About by Jente Posthuma, translated by Sarah Timmer HarveyThe Prophet by Kahlil GibranDandelion by Jamie Chai Yun LiewThe Pages of the Sea by Anne HawkSubterrane by Valérie BahPerfect Little Angels by Vincent AniokeScientific Marvel by Chimwemwe Undi

Fr Joshua Whitehead says that Jesus speaks to us with a voice of love, warmth, and intimacy, calling us His beloved children.

Fr Joshua Whitehead says that John the Baptist's words “there stands Jesus among you” highlight the essence of Christian faith: Jesus became human and is present among us, offering hope and inviting us to actively seek and share his risen presence

Mother ships, bending time, and bioengineered rats, oh my! Daniel Haeusser and Trish Matson join forces to discuss Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction edited by Joshua Whitehead. Together, they explore the book's themes of resistance and survival, the threads of utopianism throughout the stories, and much more! Thanks for listening. We hope you enjoy the episode! Show Notes: If you have a question you'd like us to answer, feel free to shoot us a message on our contact page. Our new intro and outro music comes from Holy Mole. You can support his work at patreon.com/holymole. See you later, navigator!

Fr Joshua Whitehead says that Pentecost points us to the reality that faith can be extraordinarily experiential.

In this episode we read 'Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit & Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction' by Joshua Whitehead. Thanks to Hannah for buddy reading this week! https://www.ohwitchplease.ca/https://www.instagram.com/hkpmcgregorNo Books on a Dead Planet is produced and presented by Leena Norms. Artwork by Gung Ho Studios. Edited by Craig Simmonds. Nab yourself a positive panic patch: https://leenanorms.com/shop Follow Leena's work elsewhere… YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@leenanorms Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leenanorms/ Poetry collection: https://linktr.ee/bargainbinromcom

Gospel Reflection–Fr Joshua Whitehead– Allowing Ourselves to Be Led (Fr Joshua Whitehead says we're invited to reflect on our approach to faith. Is it something that you do? Or it is a free response to God's initiative allowing yourself to be led by the Good Shepherd?)

Pietà Lenten Series–Fr Joshua Whitehead–The Joy of This Night (Fr Joshua Whitehead says that the readings for the Easter Vigil proclaim that Jesus IS risen, NOT Jesus has risen. The joy of this night overflows into the next 50 days.)

Gospel Reflection– Fr Joshua Whitehead–Saying Yes (Fr Joshua says Christmas Eve is a time of preparation, joy, and primarily it's a time of anticipation. Salvation history continues through every single one of the prophets, calling people back to relationship with Jesus, and now it reaches its high point with celebrating Jesus's birth. God chooses to reveal God's own self through an infant, in a vulnerable child. This is the amazing thing, it happens through a human yes, through Mary's saying yes, I will be your servant. Salvation history continues into the here and the now because we're part of this history, we have an opportunity to be part of the biblical story by saying yes ourselves to God, by making God visible through our yes. I'd like to conclude this time of Advent by inviting you to say yes in your heart to the presence of God in your life.)

Joshua shares a poetic narrative about being Indigenous and queer in Canada.Joshua Whitehead is an Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary and he is the author of Making Love with the Land, full-metal indigiqueer and Jonny Appleseed all of which have received a litany of accolades and awards. He is also the editor of Love after the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction, which won the Lambda Award in 2021. He performed this story at Sydney Writers Festival.Queerstories an award-winning LGBTQI+ storytelling project directed by Maeve Marsden, with regular events around Australia. For more information, visit www.queerstories.com.au and follow Queerstories on Facebook.The Queerstories book is published by Hachette Australia, and can be purchased from your favourite independent bookseller or on Booktopia.To support Queerstories, become a patron at www.patreon.com/ladysingsitbetter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Gospel Reflection– Fr Joshua Whitehead– Preparation and Discipline (Fr Joshua says that Advent is also a time of preparation and discipline, not to dodge or avoid the one who shows us the way, the one who instructs, but to encounter him, Jesus, and deeply intimate and personal ways. Staying awake or staying alert in a spiritual sense draws us in closer, deeper to Jesus and it actually makes us ready to recognise moments of pure gifts that are given by God to us. We're invited during this season of Advent to cooperate, to make sense of what God gives us. Our response is fourfold, first with every effort of our intellect. Second with a sound and focuses will that goes straight towards Christ. Third, with an upright heart, and finally, through the witness of those who teach us to seek Christ.)

In this week's episode of Real Talk Christian Podcast, Marc Hyde and Chris Fuller sit down for a great conversation with Up and Coming Christian Music Artist Joshua Whitehead. This episode is one you do not want to miss as we dive into Joshua's life and struggles not only as an amazing artist but also the redemption of God in his christian journey. Grab the box of tissues (you might need them) and listen in. (Banter ends at 9:35)   //Resources Used In This Episode// https://www.instagram.com/jwhitehead204/?hl=en https://www.facebook.com/joshuawhiteheadmusic1/ https://www.tiktok.com/@joshuawhiteheadmusic https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgIZEVIgD85TzJj-3D3d7cw   //Other Episode You Might Enjoy// 138: The Chosen Vs. The World: A Look At Christian Entertainment - Real Talk Christian Podcast 136: Growing up Christian: Misconceptions Of A “Perfect” Upbringing - Real Talk Christian Podcast 088: Cancel Culture: Shalt Thou Offend - Real Talk Christian Podcast 083: Sinful Excuses - Real Talk Christian Podcast 003: How do we live in our culture while not conforming to the culture? - Real Talk Christian Podcast   // Helpful Links // https://www.youtube.com/@realtalkchristianpodcast The Christian Standard Bible: https://bit.ly/3rulKqi Lifeway Christian Resources: https://bit.ly/3qka4Wv Got Questions?: https://bit.ly/3vSMJfq Dwell Bible App: https://bit.ly/3zUYq8E Cross Formed Kids from Ryan Coatney: https://bit.ly/3h19isZ RTC Quick Links: https://linktr.ee/realtalkchristianpodcast RTC Online: www.realtalkchristianpodcast.com Twin Valley Coffee:  https://www.coffeehelpingmissions.com Revive festival : Music Festival | En Gedi Music Fest | Leonidas, MI (myrevivefest.com) Toccoa Coffee:https://toccoacoffee.com RTC Merch-https://rtcpodcast.redbubble.com

The early years of priesthood are incredibly formative! The lessons learned will be ones that you carry throughout your entire ministry and will be the foundation for your future fruitfulness. On this week's podcast, Fr Joshua Whitehead is sharing his experience throughout the first four years of his priesthood. Ron Huntley & Fr. Josh discuss the lessons he's learned so far and the process he's taken to fortify himself for ministry. If you're currently making your way through the seminary or are still in the early years of your priesthood, this episode will provide a ton of value!   About Fr. Joshua Whitehead: Fr Josh (42yrs) leads a large Sunshine Coast Catholic Parish called Our Lady of the Rosary (Queensland, Australia). Fr Josh was born in New Zealand and has been living in Australia for the last 17 years. He has been ordained four years and is leading a program of intentional parish renewal that places evangelisation front-and-centre, alongside leadership and a reliance on the Holy Spirit. Fr Josh's interests include surfing, running, leadership development and reading. Connect with Fr. Josh: https://caloundracatholicparish.net/

Gospel Reflection–Fr Joshua Whitehead–Letting Go to Live Life (Fr Joshua says that we are called to a personal life-giving relationship with Jesus. But for us Christians, it means letting go of the things that stop us from putting God first. Reassessing the thing that we value the most, our independence and freedom, perhaps even letting go of earthly relationships in favour of putting God first. And it certainly takes letting go of any disordered lusts and desires so that we can be in relationship with God's son Jesus and live life to the full.)

Gospel Reflection–Fr Joshua Whitehead–To Know, Love & Serve Jesus (Fr Joshua says that Thomas & Philip's questions in this Gospel about knowing the way and seeing the father, are our questions too. Our goal is to know, to love, and to serve Jesus, and it happens in four intentional but distinct ways. (1) It takes every effort of our intellect. (2) It takes a sound will, not a will that vacillates between yes and no. (3) It takes an upright heart, which means a straight heart, or in the original Hebrew, a heart free from sin. And (4) perhaps most excitingly, it takes the witness of those who teach us to seek Jesus, to seek relationship with him. It's through the Son that we know the way and see the Father.)

Joshua WhiteheadJoshua Whitehead is a Two-Spirit, Oji-nêhiyaw member of Peguis First Nation (Treaty 1). He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Calgary where he teaches Indigenous literatures and cultures with a focus on gender and sexuality.  His book of poetry, full-metal indigiqueer (Talonbooks 2017), was shortlisted for the inaugural Indigenous Voices Award and the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry.  His novel, Jonny Appleseed  (Arsenal Pulp Press 2018), established Joshua Whitehead as one of the most exciting and important new literary voices on Turtle Island.  Jonny Appleseed 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 and the Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction. In Making Love With the Land  (University of Minnesota, 2022), a book of essays, he writes in prose that is evocative and sensual, unabashedly queer and visceral, raw,  autobiographical, and emotionally compelling. Whitehead shares his devotion to the world in which we live and brilliantly—even joyfully—maps his experience on the land that has shaped stories, histories, and bodies from time immemorial.   His work is published widely in such venues as Prairie Fire, CV2, EVENT, Arc Poetry Magazine, The Fiddlehead, Grain, CNQ, Write, and Red Rising Magazine. Robin Wall KimmererUniversity of Minnesota PressJohnny Appleseed by Joshua WhiteheadAlex Waters is the technical producer, audio editor and engineer for the Short Fuse Podcast. He is a music producer and a student at Berklee College of Music. He has written and produced music and edited for podcasts including The Faith and Chai Podcast, Con Confianza and The Stand Unshaken Podcast. He writes, produces and records music for independent artists, including The Living.  He lives in Brooklyn can can be reached at alexwatersmusic12@gmail.com with inquiries.

Hey friends! We return from our Hiatus with a conversation about the absolutely lovely Making Love With The Land by Joshua Whitehead! Making Love With The Land is a series of essays penned by Whitehead that take place before and during the 2020 Corona Virus Pandemic, and while they cover many heavy topics, the writing was purely electric and truly had us deep in thought after each chapter. Theme Song by Man With Roses

That's a wrap on Season 2! To cap off 2022, Jennifer and Waubgeshig are joined by author, poet, and professor Joshua Whitehead to talk about NISHGA by Jordan Abel. NISHGA is a powerful autobiographical exploration of Indigenous identity and self-awareness in the ongoing devastation of intergenerational trauma. This collection of reflections, poems, artwork, and more is eclectic, candid, and heartfelt, and we felt honoured and privileged to be able to read and discuss it at the end of this season.More on NISHGA:https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/610846/nishga-by-jordan-abel/9780771007903More on Joshua Whitehead:Joshua Whitehead is an Oji-Cree, Two-Spirit member of Peguis First Nation (Treaty 1). He is the author of full-metal indigiqueer (Talonbooks 2017), Jonny Appleseed (Arsenal Pulp Press 2018), the editor of Love after the End: an Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction (Arsenal 2020) and most recently, Making Love with the Land (Knopf Canada 2022). He currently resides in Treaty 7 territory, Calgary, where he lives and teaches. 

Have you ever thought about how your queer life is connected to the land that you live it on? In this episode, Joshua Whitehead (University of Calgary) will take you on a Two-Spirit Indigiqueer journey from Stonewall in New York to the Forks in Winnipeg. Josh talks about how healing communion with the land is, how the stories of our queer bodies need to be read and told in relation to place, and about how genre can be as violent and racist of a category as gender. Would you like your serving of decolonial queer theory and creativity with a dash of Cardi B today? Then this is the episode for you.If you're anything like me, you will absolutely need to see photographic evidence of Josh's shepherd Chief now. Head over to Insta or Twitter and follow @jwhitehead204. The podcast cats are purring over at @queerlitpodcast. Works by Joshua mentioned:full-metal indigiqueer (2017)Jonny Appleseed (2018)Making Love With the Land (2022)Other people, texts and terms mentioned:Thor RagnarokPeguisCardi BOji-CreeNehiyawLeanne Betasamosake Simpson As We've Always Done and “Indigenous Queer Normativity”AnishinaabeOjibweBiotextBiostoryPost-contact nationsMétisMyra LarameeStonewallMarsha P JohnsonSylvia RiveraWendigoFred WahMichael OndaatjeDavid Palumbo-LiuGarth GreenwellSky LeeDaniel Health JusticeWonderworkingCherokee“Two-Spirit Literature” with Lisa Tatonettihttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/50303918 “Queer Indigenous Literature” with Jas Morganhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/50152848 Princess Mononoke Hayao MiyazakiStudio GhibliMaori: pukapukaOtâcimowᓀᐦᐃᔭᐍᐏᐣ nēhiyawēwinMichel FoucaultFrantz FanonSigmund FreudJudith ButlerAchille Mbembe's NecropoliticsGregory Scofield's Thunder Through My VeinsAnne of Green GablesLittle House on the PrairieKihtwamQuestions you should be able to respond to after listening:1.How does Josh describe queer relationships and interactions with the land? Which examples does he give?2.What does Two-Spirit mean? When was the term created?3.Which community coined the term ‘biotext' and how does Josh alter it to suit his own writing?4.Josh talks about the work the reader has to put in to follow the syllabics in “A Geography of Queer Woundings”. How does this relate to ‘glossing' in post-colonial theory?5.Reflect on whether or how your own body plays a role when you read or write queer texts, whether that is ‘theory' or ‘fiction' or anything in between.

This week on rabble radio, Stephen Wentzell sits down with Joshua Whitehead, author of ‘Making Love with the Land.”  Whitehead is an Oji-Cree/nehiyaw, Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer member of Peguis First Nation (Treaty 1). He is the author of the novel ‘Jonny Appleseed' (Arsenal Pulp Press), which was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and shortlisted for a Governor General's Literary Award in Fiction. He is also the author of the poetry collection ‘full-metal indigiqueer' (Talonbooks), which was shortlisted for the inaugural Indigenous Voices Award for Most Significant Work of Poetry in English and the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry. Currently, he is working on a PhD in Indigenous Literatures and Cultures at the University of Calgary's English department (Treaty 7). Today, Whitehead explains to Wentzell about ‘Making Love with the Land' - a book which is part memoir, part poetry, part literary criticism. Whitehead explains how this genre-bending of traditional colonial literary standards is a “radical act of freedom” and more similar to a Indigenous form of storytelling.   Whitehead also shares how touring for Jonny Appleseed and experiencing nature, break-ups, and isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic influenced his writing this book. Finally, Whitehead shares what truth and reconciliation means to him.   If you like the show please consider subscribing on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you find your podcasts. And please, rate, review, share rabble radio with your friends — it takes two seconds to support independent media like rabble. Follow us on social media across channels @rabbleca. Or, if you have feedback for the show, get in touch anytime at editor@rabble.ca.

When Joshua Whitehead was writing his first novel, Jonny Appleseed, he had a small, queer Indigenous audience in mind. But the book went on to become a bestseller, picking up literary prizes and winning CBC's Canada Reads. Now, Whitehead says it's time readers, journalists and academics start rethinking how we interrogate Indigenous authors about their work. In his new non-fiction collection of essays, Making Love with the Land, the two-spirit Oji-Cree storyteller from Peguis First Nation in Manitoba addresses all the uncomfortable and harmful questions he was asked in the wake of Jonny Appleseed. He joins Elamin Abdelmahmoud to argue for a more caring and respectful approach to storytelling and story sharing.

Guest host Elamin Abdelmahmoud probes the rules that govern space with Cassandra Steer, Joshua Whitehead argues for a more caring and respectful approach to storytelling and sharing, and Maude Barlow reflects on a lifetime of activism.

Scary stuff happening in Winnipeg nightclubs / GAME DAY! / oh and... Hi! (1:40); Is it time to get rid of Best Before dates? (8:40); Best before dates philosophies and experiences (16:20); Still a big problem at nightclubs - getting drugged by someone. A young woman shares her story (24:40); Texts on best before dates (32:05); Small Town Salute - The Poutine Trail! (34:00); GO BLUE! Derek Taylor, the voice of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers (42:10); Winning text on Best Before dates (53:10); New non-fiction book 'Making Love With the Land' from award-winning author Joshua Whitehead (57:20); Lauren tees up Brett to say something fun with his extra deep voice (1:08:00).

About Joshua Whitehead: Joshua Whitehead is an Oji-nêhiyaw, Two-Spirit member of Peguis First Nation (Treaty 1). He is author of the award-winning novel Jonny Appleseed and the poetry collection full-metal indigiqueer, and he is editor of Love after the End. He is assistant professor in the departments of English and international Indigenous studies at the University of Calgary. About Making Love with the Land: In Making Love with the Land, his first nonfiction book, Whitehead explores the relationships between body, language, and land through creative essay, memoir, and confession. In prose that is evocative and sensual, unabashedly queer and visceral, raw and autobiographical, Whitehead writes of an Indigenous body in pain, coping with trauma. Deeply rooted within, he reaches across the anguish to create a new form of storytelling he calls “biostory”—beyond genre, and entirely sovereign. Through this narrative perspective, Making Love with the Land recasts mental health struggles and our complex emotional landscapes from a nefarious parasite on his (and our) well-being to kin, even a relation, no matter what difficulties they present to us. Whitehead ruminates on loss and pain without shame or ridicule but rather highlights waypoints for personal transformation. Written in the aftermath of heartbreak, before and during the pandemic, Making Love with the Land illuminates this present moment in which both Indigenous and non-Indigenous people are rediscovering old ways and creating new ones about connection with and responsibility toward each other and the land. Intellectually audacious and emotionally compelling, Whitehead shares his devotion to the world in which we live and brilliantly—even joyfully—maps his experience on the land that has shaped stories, histories, and bodies from time immemorial.

In this episode, Linda reflects on why we say boundaries are "bad" and how "good relationships" stand in contrast. Using Thomas King (author of The Inconvenient Indian, Medicine River, Green Grass, Running Water) and Natasha Donovan's graphic novel, Borders (published by Little Brown, 6.55), Linda explores "bad boundaries" -- and bad borders -- in relation to the Blackfoot nation. She also refers to Daniel Rück's The Laws and the Land (4.00) and Benjamin Hoy's A Line of Blood and Dirt (5.55) to explain her thinking around boundaries and borders. Some of her musings encompass the following:What are bad boundaries? (2.43; 5.05; 10.40)The Canadian-American Border; Blackfoot territory (8.30; 9.00; 12.19; 14.18; 15.00)Mapping and cartography as expressions of power (8.40)National imagined identities (9.00)Blackfoot culture (9.58)Relationships (between the mother-daughter, mother-narrator in the story, 11.00; 15.25; 16.35)Stories and their importance (15.40)The Takeaway is about Joshua Whitehead's Full Metal Indigiqueer published by Talon Press (17.00), with reference to Making Love to the Land by Penguin Random House. She makes reference to the difference between Transgender and Two Spirit, the former referreing to someone whose gender identity differs from the sex assigned at birth, the latter to an Indigenous person who identifies as possessing both a masculine and a feminine spirit. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this QatEotW Presents we talk to Adam Garnet Jones about his short story History of the New World, from Love After the End, an Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction, edited by Joshua Whitehead, and out from Arsenal Pulp Press in 2020. Learn more about Adam and his work at adamgarnetjones.com. You can also see their gorgeous beadwork by following him on Instagram @adamgarnetjones, and learn more about APTN, the first TV network for and by indigenous people, here. Thanks so much to the Ottawa Writers Festival for permission to use audio from their 2020 book launch for Love After the End. Check out the full event, with readings and a fantastic conversation among three of the collection's contributors, moderated by Joshua Whitehead, editor of the anthology, and poet and fiction writer, most recently of Making Love with the Land. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/queerworlds/support

“But there is joy in advocating for changing of the world for the better, for not allowing the world to tell you who you shall be, but rather reimagining a world in which you can be anything.” Award-winning journalist and professor at Northeastern University Caleb Gayle delivers a stunningly original story of America in his first book, We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power. Caleb joins us on the show to talk about growing up in Tulsa, Oklahoma and the aftermath of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre, the untold stories of marginalized communities, his hopeful outlook for the future of the country, and much more with Poured Over's host, Miwa Messer. And we end this episode with TBR Topoff book recommendations from Marc and Becky.   Featured Books (Episode): We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power by Caleb Gayle   Featured Books (TBR Topoff): Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead   Poured Over is produced and hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang. Follow us here for new episodes Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays).   A full transcript of this show is available here.

On this episode of Inspired Word Café, we chat with acclaimed Oji-nêhiyaw, Two-Spirit author Joshua Whitehead about his forthcoming work "A Geography of Queer Woundings". Find Joshua:Twitter and Instagram: @jwhitehead204Find more IWC at www.inspiredwordcafe.com We recognize that this podcast is made on the unceded traditional territory of the syilx Okanagan nation. For more information about the Okanagan Nation Alliance at www.syilx.orgThis podcast is funded by the Canada Council for the Arts and in part by the City of Kelowna.

Alex Prong, a media studies MA student, joins hosts Laura Muñoz-Baena and Brittany Melton this week to discuss queer literature in its many forms. Join us as we prod the Prong about their inspiration, book recommendations and how they go about researching indigiqueer literature to find alternative paths to chrono and homonormativity.  Recommended books: Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead and A History of my Brief Body by Billy Ray Belcourt Recorded on March 15, 2022. Produced by Laura Muñoz Baena. Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ Produced by White Hot.

In this episode of Doing Diversity in Writing, we—Bethany and Mariëlle—interview Professor Grace L. Dillon about Indigenous Futurisms and how (not) to write Indigenous characters.    Grace L. Dillon (Anishinaabe with family, friends, and relatives from Bay Mills Nation and Garden River Nation with Aunties and Uncles also from the Saulteaux Nation) is Professor in the Indigenous Nations Studies Department in the School of Gender, Race, and Nations and also Affiliated Professor at English and Women, Gender, and Sexualities Departments at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on a range of interests including Indigenous Futurisms, Queer Indigenous Studies, Gender, Race, and Nations Theories and Methodologies courses, Climate and Environmental Justice(s) from Indigenous Perspectives, Reparations Justice, Resurgence Justice, Science Fiction, Indigenous Cinema, Popular Culture, Race and Social Justice, and early modern literature. (For her full biography, please check out the episode page on our website.)   What Grace shared with us   Why and how she coined the term Indigenous Futurisms What it was like to be a consultant as an Anishinaabe person to directors Scott Cooper and Guillermo del Toro Some behind-the-scenes stories about the filming of Twilight What true allyship looks like and how we can become an ally How we can honour someone else's story Best practices of engaging with Indigenous communities Grace L Dillion's academic email is: dillong@pdx.edu   (Re)sources mentioned on the show and other recommendations by Grace L. Dillon, many of which are LGBTQ2+   Routledge Handbook of CoFuturisms, edited by Grace L. Dillon, Isiah Lavender III, Taryne Taylor, and Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay (forthcoming) Hachette Australia: https://www.hachette.com.au  Claire G. Coleman's Terra Nullius (2017) and The Old Lie (2019) (South Coast Noongar People): https://clairegcoleman.com  Ellen Van Neerven's Heat and Light (2014): https://ellenvanneervencurrie.wordpress.com/heat-and-light  Louise Erdrich's Future Home of the Living God: A Novel (2017) (Anishinaabe): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34217599-future-home-of-the-living-god  Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's This Accident of Being Lost: Songs and Stories (2017), Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies (2021) and As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom Through Radical Resurgence (2017) (Anishinaabe): https://www.leannesimpson.ca  Cherie Dimaline's The Marrow Thieves (2017) and Hunting by the Stars (Metis): https://cheriedimaline.com  Waubgeshig Rice's Moon of the Crusted Snow (2018) (Anishinaabe): https://www.waub.ca  Harold Johnson's Corvus (2015) (Cree): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26840855-corvus  Alexis Wright's The Swan Book (2013 rpt. 2018) (Waanyi Nation): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18247932-the-swan-book  Gerald Vizenor's Bearheart (1978) (Anishinaabe): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/871536.Bearheart  Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead (1991) (Laguna Nation): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52385.Almanac_of_the_Dead  Australian First Nations Ambelin Kwaymullina's trilogy The Interrogation of Ashala the Wolf (2012), The Disappearance of Ember Crow (2013), and The Foretelling of Georgie the Spider (2015): https://ambelin-kwaymullina.com.au  Indigenous Hawai'ian Christopher Kahunahana's film Waikiki: http://www.waikikithemovie.com  Nalo Hopkinson's many stories, including YA novels Sister Mine (2013) and The Chaos (2012): https://www.nalohopkinson.com  Andrea Hairston's novels such as Mindscape, Redwood and Wildfire, Will Do Magic for Change, and Master of Poisons: http://andreahairston.com  Darcie Little Badger's Elatsoe (2020) and A Snake Falls to Earth (2022) (Lipan Apache Nation): https://darcielittlebadger.wordpress.com  Zainab Amadahy's Resistance (Afro-Canadian and Cherokee): https://www.swallowsongs.com  Daniel Heath Justice's The Way of Thorn and Thunder: The Kynship Chronicles (2011) and Why Indigenous Literatures Matter. His story “The Boys Who Became the Hummingbirds” in Hope Nicholson's edited collection of Love Beyond Body, Space, and Time: An Indigenous LGBT Sci-Fi Anthology (2016) is also explored in graphic novel form in Moonshot: The Indigenous Comics Collection, Volume 2 (2017) (Cherokee): https://danielheathjustice.com  Joshua Whitehead's Indigiqueer Metal, Johnny Appleseed, and Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit & Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction (2020): https://www.joshuawhitehead.ca  Moonshot: The Indigenous Comics Collection, Volume 3, edited by Anishinaabe and  Metís Nations Elizabeth La Pensèe and Michael Sheyahshe (2020): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51456434-moonshot  Deer Women: An Anthology (2017) published by Native Realities Press and headed by Lee Francis IV. (Laguna Pueblo Nation): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38219794-deer-woman  Sovereign Traces Volume 2: Relational Constellations edited by Elizabeth La Pensèe: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42686187-sovereign-traces-volume-2  Sloane Leong's graphic novel Prism Stalker (2019): https://prismstalker.com  Smokii Sumac's you are enough: love poems for the end of the world (2018) (Ktunaxa Nation): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41677143-you-are-enough  Michelle Ruiz Keil's All of Us With Wings (2019): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40177227-all-of-us-with-wings  Carmen Maria Machado's Her Body and Other Parties (2017) and In the Dream House: A Memoir (2019): https://carmenmariamachado.com  Sabrina Vourvoulias's Ink (2012): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15721155-ink  Rita Indiana's Tentacle (2018): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40679930-tentacle  Qwo-Li Driskill's Asegi Stories: Cherokee Queer and Two-Spirit Memory (2016): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27777916-asegi-stories  Tiffany Lethabo King, et. al's Otherwise Worlds: Against Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness (2020): https://www.dukeupress.edu/otherwise-worlds  Lisa Tatonetti's The Queerness of Native American Literature (2014): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21944614-the-queerness-of-native-american-literature  Bawaajigan: Stories of Power edited by Anishinaabe Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler and Christine Miskonoodinkwe Smith (2019):   https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45180942-bawaajigan  mitêwâcimowina: Indigenous Science Fiction and Speculative Storytelling edited by Cree Nation Neal McLeod (2016): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34105770-mit-w-cimowina  Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction edited by Grace L. Dillon (2012) (Anishinaabe): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13226625-walking-the-clouds  Amy Lonetree's Decolonizing Museums (2012) (Hochunk Nation): https://uncpress.org/book/9780807837153/decolonizing-museums  The work of Debra Yeppa Pappan (Korean and Jemez Pueblo) at the Chicago Field Museum: https://www.fieldmuseum.org/about/staff/profile/2486 Laura Harjo's Spiral to the Stars: Mvskoke Tools of Futurity (2019) (Cherokee): https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/spiral-to-the-stars  Bethany's Editing Your Novel's Structure: Tips, Tricks, and Checklists to Get You From Start to Finish: https://theartandscienceofwords.com/new-book-for-authors/   This week's episode page, with Grace L. Dillon's full bio, can be found here: https://representationmatters.art/2022/02/17/s2e5/   Subscribe to our newsletter here and get out Doing Diversity in Writing Toolkit, including our Calm the F*ck Down Checklist and Cultural Appropriation Checklist: https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/r3p6g8    As always, we'd love for you to join the conversation by filling out our questionnaires.    Our Doing Diversity in Writing – Writer Questionnaire can be filled in at https://forms.gle/UUEbeEvxsdwk1kuy5   Our Doing Diversity in Writing – Reader Questionnaire can be filled in at https://forms.gle/gTAg4qrvaCPtqVJ36    Don't forget, you can find us at https://representationmatters.art/ and on https://www.facebook.com/doingdiversityinwriting   

The term "two-spirit" has only been around for about 30 years, but it's an identity with ancient roots. This week on Unreserved, meet Indigenous people who are walking the two-spirit path with pride and reclaiming their place in cultural and community circles. Anishinaabe elder Myra Laramee was gifted the words "two-spirit" in a dream in 1990. She took these words to an annual gathering of Indigenous LGBTQ people, who adopted the term. Alex Wilson is from the Opaskwayak Cree Nation and is a professor in the college of education at the University of Saskatchewan. She has devoted her career to understanding two-spirit identity, how it's rooted in the land and how "coming in" (as opposed to coming out) is a uniquely Indigenous experience. Chantal Fiola and Nicki Ferland are a two-spirit Métis couple living in Winnipeg. They tell the story of their traditional Midewiwin wedding ceremony. Joshua Whitehead's debut novel Jonny Appleseed won Canada Reads 2021. The two-spirit/Indigiqueer writer from Peguis First Nation is representing two-spirit characters in his writing as real, honest and whole. In doing so, he's paving the way for the next generation of two-spirit people to accept — and love — who they are.

Sophia reads to her plants and admits being afraid of anthologies, Élaina waxes poetic about “reading practices”, and we all discuss the impact of reading Love After the End (edited by Joshua Whitehead) and the radical statement that is writing utopias when you live in a dystopic world. If you can, please consider donating to the Lenape Center and the Indian Residential School Survivors Society. You can also sign up for the free (with the option to donate) Indigenous Canada online asynchronous course offered by the University of Alberta. Please rate and review Bookshelf Remix wherever you listen to podcasts as this helps other people find the show. You can follow Bookshelf Remix on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook @bookshelfremix and you can support the podcast by becoming a monthly supporter at www.ko-fi.com/brpod. Transcripts also live on our Ko-Fi page for free. You can follow Élaina @ElainaGMamaril on Twitter, @spinoodler on Instagram and check out her work at www.elainagauthiermamaril.com, and by listening to Philosophy Casting Call. You can follow Sophia @themetropolitanist on Instagram, @metropolitanist on Twitter, and on her website www.maisonmetropolitanist.com.

AUSU is getting set for it's second Pride Week, with a host of great events including guest speakers Joshua Whitehead and Dr. Tobias Wiggins. Executive Director Jodi Campbell catches up with VP Community and Wellness Natalia Iwanek and Communications and Member Services Coordinator Ashley Janes to talk about the great events coming up and the importance of Pride at AUSU. Starring: AUSU VP Community and Wellness Natalia Iwanek, Communications and Member Services Coordinator Ashley Janes, and Executive Director Jodi Campbell

Two-Spirit, Oji-nêhiyaw member of Peguis First Nation (Treaty 1) writer and lecturer Joshua Whitehead talks Ariana Grande high ponies, digital dystopias and the importance of a good jar of jelly beans. Brought to you By: The Sonar Network

Linda focuses on Indigenous writers in this podcast in view of Orange Shirt Day (every child matters!) and the inaugural National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. She recommends several writers (some of them featured on 49th shelf), including Cherie Dimaline and Joshua Whitehead.Postcards may offer glossy images of success or experiences that aren't real - instead, sometimes those images may obscure the turbulent underside of our lives. Beginning with her experience with depression (trigger warning), Linda addresses how misunderstandings arise from expectations about what one should feel and what one actually feels; she thus considers the Apple TV character, Ted Lasso, and his sage advice, "Be curious, not judgemental." She then looks at Eden Robinson's magnificent (and painful) story, "Traplines," in which the narrator, Will, must navigate an abusive context (more trigger warnings) and try to discern how to act and what is options really are. All of this is rendered more complex by his deep sense of hunger (real and otherwise).Then, in the Takeaway, Linda recommends Naomi Fontaine's Manikanetish (translated by Luise von Flotow), which was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award. You can find a longer review of this book in the Montreal Review of Books.She also thanks some of her listeners, including Arpita Ghosal at SesayArts Magazine.If you are suffering from depression, please reach out and get support. You are not alone. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Cree poet and broadcaster Rosanna Deerchild joins Jennifer and Waubgeshig this month to talk about Jonny Appleseed, the award-winning novel by Joshua Whitehead. Originally published in 2018, it quickly garnered praise and was long listed for the Giller Prize. In 2021, it won CBC's Canada Reads competition. More on Jonny Appleseed:https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/J/Jonny-AppleseedMore on Rosanna Deerchild:https://www.cbc.ca/mediacentre/bio/rosanna-deerchild

Martina spricht mit Olivian über den Debütroman des indigiqueeren Autors Joshua Whitehead. Doch was hat es überhaupt mit dem Konzept "Two Spirit" auf sich? Und wie lebt ein junger two-spirit Mensch aus der Nation der Oji-Cree im heutigen Kanada, der ein Leben als Sexarbeiter in der Großstadt und eine Herkunftsfamilie auf dem Reservat unter einen Hut bringen muss? Als Jonny zur Beerdiung seines Stiefvaters zurück ins Reservat will, kommen in ihm Erinnerungen an seine Kindheit und Jugend hoch und es entspinnt sich seine Lebensgeschichte, die wir so noch nicht gelesen haben.

We celebrate and amplify Indigenous voices in this episode in the hope that reading the works of Indigenous authors will help strengthen the path to reconciliation, and that by acknowledging painful truths, empathy can flourish and pave the way for healing. Books mentioned: Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse, Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot, Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids by Cynthia Leitich Smith, Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction edited by Joshua Whitehead, and Powwow Summer by Nahanni Shingoose. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/keepitfictional/message

Join Shauna and Rebecca as they officially kick off the American Indian Library Association's Read Native 21 Challenge!  There are 26 prompts for adults and 24 for children.  Rebecca mentions the following books that she has read to date:  When My Brother Was an Aztec by Natalie Diaz; Tilly and the Crazy Eights by Monique Gray Smith; Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead; and Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story by Kevin Noble Maillard.  She also highlights Native American storyteller, Pun Plamondon's "Fathers & Figures" on YouTube. Shauna has completed the "horror" category with Joseph Bruchac's Skeleton Man.  She says it's "creepy".   Also, you can identify which Native lands you now occupy with this map.   Voice-over by Content Creator and Comedian Cameron Geller --TikTok & Instagram: @cameron.geller    Music from Zapsplat.com

Whistler Public Library Program Coordinator Jeanette Bruce is in the virtual house to discuss  two favourite reading genres: short fiction and fantasy. Short stories keep us engaged and fantasy takes us away from the here and now. Sign me up! My mom calls with an update on the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist and I learn about a brand new pasta shape from a podcast for serious cooks.Books and resources discussed:This is a Robbery, NetflixChristopher Kimball's Milk Street RadioMoccasin Square Gardens by Richard Van CampHow long 'til Black Future Month by N.K. JemisinThe City We Became by N.K. JemisinThe Swan Suit by Kathrine FawcettThe Little Washer of Sorrows by Katherine FawcettThe Crooked Thing by Mary MacDonaldLove After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indiqueer Speculative Fiction, edited by Joshua WhiteheadJohnny Appleseed by Joshua WhiteheadChop Suey Nation: The Legion Cafe and Other Stories from Canada's Chinese Restaurants by Ann HuiArmchair Books, Whistler, British ColumbiaWhistler Public LibraryFollow Jeanette Bruce:Instagram: @liljablesTo read Jeanette's book reviews: Armchair BooksInfo on the next Whistler Community Book Club, May 26 at 7 p.m.: Chop Suey Nation Follow Red Fern Book Review:Instagram: @redfernbookreviewFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/redfernbookreview/

Canada Reads champions Devery Jacobs and Joshua Whitehead reflect on winning this year's battle of the books with Whitehead's debut novel Jonny Appleseed. Singer-songwriter Julia Michaels talks about writing for superstars like Selena Gomez, Shawn Mendes and Justin Bieber — and why she's now writing more songs for herself. Polaris Prize-winning musician Lido Pimienta fills us in on the inspiration behind her new record Miss Colombia. Montreal singer-songwriter Dominique Fils-Aimé discusses Three Little Words, the final release in her trilogy of albums that pay homage to African American music.

Actor and filmmaker Devery Jacobs is championing Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead on Canada Reads.

An introduction to the novel Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead, and its Canada Reads champion, actor and filmmaker Devery Jacobs.

Shauna and Rebecca review another contender for the 2021 CBC’s Canada Reads annual competition. Is it as graphic as some readers have stated on the CBC’s Canada Reads Facebook group?  Is it a book that transports us?  Spoiler alert: read the book, then come back for the discussion.   Special thanks to @wearebeautifulwords book club for creating thought-provoking bookmarks that you can purchase to enhance your reading adventure! Buy yours today at https://www.wearebeautifulwords.ca/ 

Steven Yeun talks about his starring role in the new drama Minari, about a father who moves his family from California to rural Arkansas to follow his dream of starting a farm. Filmmaker Andrei Konchalovsky explains why Russian audiences have had vastly differing reactions to his historical drama Dear Comrades. Actress Devery Jacobs talks about defending Joshua Whitehead's debut novel Jonny Appleseed in this year's Canada Reads debates. Tracy Morgan chats about Coming 2 America, and shares how Eddie Murphy and the original Coming to America inspired his own rise as a comedian.

Ungewöhnliche und einfühlsam erzählte Coming-of-Age-Geschichte: Jonny ist indigen, queer, vom Stamm der Oji-Cree und Sexarbeiter im kanadischen Winnipeg. Joshua Whitehead erzählt sein Leben zwischen Akzeptanz und Ablehnung, Traditionen und Traumata.

It would be fair say that we’re fascinated by audiobooks and learning about their production, distribution, and everything else involved in the process. Last month we interviewed Jamie Dupras and Jeff Guillot from Deyan Audio in Los Angeles, but for this month’s podcast episode, we brought the conversation to Canada. Ann Jansen, Director of Audiobook Production at Penguin Random House Canada, and David Caron, Co-Publisher at ECW Press, joined BookNet Canada Research Associate Shimona Hirchberg for a conversation about the state of the audiobook industry in Canada and what’s on the horizon for this rapidly evolving chapter of publishing. Links: -BookNet Canada's Press Play: Audiobook Use in Canada 2020: https://www.booknetcanada.ca/press-play-audiobook-use-in-canada-2020 -ECW Press' office land acknowledgment: https://ecwpress.com/pages/about-us -Longest audiobook Ann has ever worked on, First Snow, Last Light by Wayne Johnston: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/549668/first-snow-last-light-by-wayne-johnston/9780735272576 -Longest audiobook David has ever worked on, Membering by Austin Clarke: https://ecwpress.com/products/membering -Audiobook on about diversity and inclusion that PRHC licensed, The Authenticity Principle by Ritu Bhasin: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/605932/the-authenticity-principle-by-written-and-read-by-ritu-bhasin/9780771009747 -Audiobook PRHC is about to co-publish with Dundurn Press, Seven by Farzana Doctor: https://www.dundurn.com/books/Seven -Audiobook Ann was recently directing remotely, Dearly by Margaret Atwood: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/647306/dearly-by-margaret-atwood/9780771012969 -Backlist books PRHC has worked on or is currently working on: Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/163908/funny-boy-by-shyam-selvadurai/9780771001758 Halfbreed by Maria Campbell: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/610927/halfbreed-by-maria-campbell/9780771024092 Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/113915/fugitive-pieces-by-anne-michaels/9780771058820 Lives of the Saints by Nino Ricci: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/153652/lives-of-the-saints-by-nino-ricci/9780385696050 Richard Wagamese’s books: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/authors/32220/richard-wagamese -Titles part of ECW’s Bespeak list: Policing Black Lives by Robin Maynard, narrated by Marcia Johnson: https://ecwpress.com/products/policing-black-lives Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom, narrated by Adri Almeida: https://ecwpress.com/products/fierce-femmes-and-notorious-liars In Search of April Raintree by Beatrice Mosionier, narrated by Michaela Washburn: https://ecwpress.com/products/in-search-of-april-raintree Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead: https://ecwpress.com/products/jonny-appleseed Islands of Decolonial Love by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, narrated by Tantoo Cardinal: https://ecwpress.com/products/islands-of-decolonial-love

The Auckland Writers Festival Winter Series will be streaming live and free-to-view on the Festival’s YouTube and Facebook channels, and then available as a video or podcast via our soundcloud, iTunes or our website. Episode 10 showcases guests from our 2020 Onāianei series: RENÉE: Playwright, novelist, poet, memoirist, and blogger Renée (Ngāti Kahungunu), has documented NZ’s social history in work that includes Wednesday To Come, Setting The Table, and memoir These Two Hands. She has recently written her first crime novel, The Wild Card. JOSHUA WHITEHEAD: Two-spirit Canadian First Nations poet and novelist Joshua Whitehead, is the author of the poetry collection Full-Metal Indigiqueer and the novel Jonny Appleseed, which won a Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction. He is currently working towards a doctorate in Indigenous literatures and cultures. RUBY MAE HINEPUNUI SOLLY:Writer and musician, Ruby Mae Hinepunui Solly (Kāi Tahu) has been published in journals such as Landfall, Minarets, and Starling. She recently released her debut album Pōneke, featuring cello, nga taonga puoro and accompanying poems. Her debut poetry collection Tōku Pāpā, will be published in 2021. HOSTED BY TINA MAKERETI: Tina Makereti is the Onāianei Series programmer for our 2020 Festival. Her work includes the novel The Imaginary Lives of James Pōneke, and 2016 Commonwealth Pacific Prizewinning short story Black Milk. She co-edited Black Marks on the White Page with Witi Ihimaera and was a contributor to Pūrākau – Māori Myths Retold This series provides an opportunity to champion New Zealand and international books that were to feature at our cancelled May Festival, we encourage you to support writers and NZ publishers and booksellers by purchasing featured books. Order via our Festival bookseller. #awfwinterseries

Welcome to episode #18 where I sit down and chat with the master behind the sound at Crosstown Sound studio Preston in Melbourne’s inner north, Joshua Whitehead.Rehearsal rooms and recording studio all run by Josh himself. He’s worked with some of Melbourne best including Big League, Old Etiquettes, Fleeting Persuasion and Shadow Transmitter among many more.I recorded my second album ‘Blustery Winter’ with Josh at Crosstown in 2018. It’s not just the great sound that gets muso’s rolling in and out of Crosstown, it’s the man himself.Josh is highly respected and one of the nicest guys you could meet, an absolute pleasure to work with and bounce ideas off of. That’s something I can vouch for first hand.I hope you enjoy our chat. Check out Josh’s own brilliant work - Shadow Transmitter ~ Acoustic Foxx ~acousticfoxx.com.au

For our May episode we have a feature interview with Edmonton writer Carissa Halton about her creative nonfiction memoir, Little Yellow House, which is shortlisted for the Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize. Shortlisted authors also include many fine Calgary writers who have been featured on Writer’s Block in past episodes. Congratulations to Calgary’s Mike Kerr, Roberta Rees, Chris Turner, Rona Altrows, Richard Kemick, Angela Dillon, Marcello di Cintio, Clem Martini, and Joshua Whitehead for being shortlisted for various Alberta Literary Awards, as well as heartfelt congratulations to all the marvellous Alberta authors nominated. The winners will be announced on June 8, 2019, at the Gala in Edmonton.

Allie, Kristina, and Max discuss the novel's stickiest sex scenes (1:14); how telling stories is different than giving advice (5:38); the narrator as sex worker, the reader as client (12:18); Joshua Whitehead joins the conversation (14:07); stories do everything (16:00); a humility is just a humiliation you love so much (23:15); doing bear sex better than Marian Engel did (26:59)

We join forces with two amazing Indigenous writers and scholars who are making waves in the literary scene with their poetry, prose, and fiction. They weave words and worlds to help us see and understand queer indigenous identities and bodies, the ways that settler colonialism has disrupted and distorted our relationships, and the power of asserting voice in spaces not meant for us. We discuss their writing practice, academia, living in racialized bodies. We close with Joshua and Billy reciting some of their work for us. Enjoy! If you love this, please subscribe, share, and consider our Patreon. +++++++++++Joshua Whitehead is Ojibwe & Cree from the Peguis First Nation, located in Treaty 1 territory, and is Two Spirit IndigiQueer. You can find him at the University of Calgary in Treaty 7 territory, obtaining his PhD in English. Joshua is a poet and a writer, but most importantly, Joshua is a storyteller. The power of his storytelling launched him into the forefront of the literary scene. His poetry collection, “Full Metal Indigequeer” is indeed, as he says, “a viral song, is a round dance, is a jingle dress, is medicine.” His debut novel, Johnny Appleseed, braids together human experience into a tight understanding of Indigeneity and queerness. +++++++++++Billy-Ray Belcourt is from the Driftpile Cree Nation and is a PhD student in the Department of English & Film Studies at the University of Alberta. As a Rhodes Scholar, Billy-Ray went to the Colonizers land to obtain his Master’s in Women’s Studies which highlighted “the role of Indigenous Women in Social Resistance Movements .” His work has been widely published and acclaimed in magazines across Canada. His debut poetry book, This Wound is A World, splits the self wide open and merges into space and place and Indian Time. His forthcoming work, NDN Coping Mechanisms, Notes from the field, is synesthesia made into polyphonic poetry, prose and digital art.Support the show (https://www.paypal.me/amrpodcast)

The Koffler Centre of the Arts is thrilled to present writers Joshua Whitehead and Arielle Twist together in conversation. Joshua Whitehead is a Two-Spirit, Ojibwe-nêhiyaw otâcimow from Peguis First Nation (Treaty 1). He is the author of full-metal indigiqueer (Talonbooks 2017), shortlisted for the Inaugural Indigenous Voices Award in Poetry and the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry, and Jonny Appleseed (Arsenal Pulp 2018), shortlisted for a Governor General’s Award for Fiction and longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. He is currently a doctoral student in the University of Calgary’s English Department (Treaty 7) where he focuses on Indigenous Lit and Cultures. Arielle Twist is a writer and sex educator from George Gordon First Nation, Saskatchewan, based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She is a Cree, Two-Spirit, trans femme supernova writing to reclaim and harness ancestral magic and memories. Her debut collection of poetry Disintegrate/Dissociate will be released in spring 2019 from Arsenal Pulp Press.

I continue to talk about the Olympics and the importance of the TRC calls to action relating to sports.  I also talk about Indigenous me too, the book Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead, and a huge congratulations goes out to KD Lang.   Be sure to check out my Patreon page and consider helping to keep this show going

In 2003, Joshua Whitehead left the business world to start serving at Faith Promise Church. Since 2005, he’s served as Executive Pastor and has seen the church grow to 5 locations and 6,800...Read the whole entry... »

Inspired by Bedpost Confessions, and hosted by Jodi Stonehouse and Tracy Bear, Tipi Confessions was an event held by the University of Alberta Faculty of Native Studies at the Art Gallery of Alberta's Ledcor Theatre on December 04, 2015. It was an evening full of fun, sexy, and heartbreaking poetry and spoken word performances by the beautiful and brilliant Joshua Whitehead, Billy-Ray Belcourt, Kim Tallbear, and Richard Van Camp. Your podcast host, Tashina Makokis, was also one of the performers of that night. Sit back, relax, prepare to laugh and cry. Welcome to Tipi Confessions.