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”
This Is Adam's World 