This is an excerpt from a longer chapter titled “Notes on Rape Culture” and is posted with permission from the author. Every now and then in the writing of this,…
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_____1_____ compression. To use a kind of compression, so compressed that the links between the image/phrase break down, but the whole poem still retains its connection. inter-text. Using and repeating…
Most people seem to be using appropriation when they include a Native character in their story. One of the people who was accused of appropriation in the 1980s was the…
The Haisla measure of intelligence is slightly different from that of mainstream culture. Three main indicators are an ability to trace your family roots back to mythic times, not having…
THAT INSTRUMENT OF LAUGHTER Nowadays I like to say cool Cool cool thrashing my tongue like iguana before even a li’l wind ruffle my branch. Because that was the dark,…
IN REVERSE CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER, THE WORLD IS FORMED Then undone, undid, undo. Into you’ll see until. No till nor record keeping, no tock unbinding. No backward grandfather clock unearthing. All…
RISK, ON AND SCREEN OFF At 15, when I first watched My Own Private Idaho, my sexuality was still a fetal idea. But even though there are few women in…
Belladonna’s new translation of Theory, A Sunday comes to us just in time to respond to a resurgence of pop feminism—on This is What a Feminist Looks Like t-shirts, at…
I think of the ways that I move my body across New York City. I think of the itchiness in my veins that drives me out of the apartment for…
Motivation Motivation is defined as “the action of (conscious and unconscious) forces that determine behavior.” We ought therefore to ask ourselves what is the source of our motivation, so as to identify the…
“The verse must be taken to the limit of expressiveness.” (Mayakovsky, How to Make Verses) It is then that the code opens to the rhyming body to formulate, against the present…
1 The airlock on the huge lilac mead jug glugs away when it’s just me in the sunny third floor kitchen in Montréal’s North End. Way up from the water.…