When I look at my own writing, there is a noticeable lack of my work being set in or even mentioning the hometown I lived in for eighteen years before moving to Oklahoma State University. Actually, it wasn’t until the second year of my MFA program—almost six years living in Stillwater all together—when I firstContinue reading “Reflection: Joy Harjo and the Hometown”
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Seminar: ‘NDN’ Space: How Queer Indigeneity Practices Survivance
Survivance, described as an active sense of existence and a continuance of Native life and culture, is difficult for queer Indigenous people to achieve because of current systems of power erasing both their Native American presence and oppressing queer bodies. To attain their own sense of survivance, queer Native Americans are typically forced to choose oneContinue reading “Seminar: ‘NDN’ Space: How Queer Indigeneity Practices Survivance”
Book Review: “Caste” by Isabel Wilkerson
“Caste focuses in on the infrastructure of our divisions and the rankings, whereas race is the metric that’s used to determine one’s place in that.”
Review: On Watching “Coded Bias”
An Orwellian future is becoming a future reality more and more each day, and more so in the United States than anywhere else—a country supposedly meant to protect the Free World, but actually more of a space intended to protect corporations more than its people. Of the nine Big Tech companies in existence, six ofContinue reading “Review: On Watching “Coded Bias””
Visualizing My Listening Habits on Spotify
If you have Spotify, you’ve probably guessed that all of your data—every song you play on repeat, every podcast you keep up with, every artist you religiously follow, every single playlist you love—is saved and stored. From this data, Spotify’s crafty algorithm is able to suggest new content for you based on what you haveContinue reading “Visualizing My Listening Habits on Spotify”
Blog Post: Miley Cyrus Is My Hero
The echoed lyrics that make her face light up in elation greet her ears like an old friend. Her laughter embraces the entire arena as she cannot believe that so many people have grasped the art that she attempts to create. Eyes sparkling, voice producing wonderful melodies, she saunters like a queen towards her rightfulContinue reading “Blog Post: Miley Cyrus Is My Hero”
Fiction: An Audience with the Queen
7 July 1982, 19:36 PM I take a swig from the flask in my hand—it’s scotch, a Glen Orchy, and the liquid roughly scorches my throat as it slides down, almost like swallowing the embers left behind a bonfire’s raging flames—as I lounge against the steps of the Victoria Memorial. Despite the edges of myContinue reading “Fiction: An Audience with the Queen”
Fiction: This Prevailing Tragedy
*Previously published in the 2018 edition of Frontier Mosaic. Print. 2003 If there is one thing I have learned from my nineteen years of living, it’s that people are either an Annunciation Triptych or an Autumn Rhythm. And I’d like to say that Robert Campin personally painted me, but there’s currently a cigarette perched between my middle andContinue reading “Fiction: This Prevailing Tragedy”
This Is Adam's World 