Joshua Whitehead
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"You're gonna need a rock and a whole lotta medicine" is a mantra that Jonny Appleseed, a young Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer, repeats to himself in this vivid and utterly compelling novel.
Off the reserve and trying to find ways to live and love in the big city, Jonny becomes a cybersex worker who fetishizes himself in order to make a living. Self-ordained as an NDN glitter princess, Jonny has one week before he must return to the "rez," and his former...
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Evolving from a conversation between Joshua Whitehead and Angie Abdou, Indigiqueerness is part dialogue, part collage, and part memoir. Beginning with memories of his childhood poetry and prose and travelling through the library of his life, Whitehead contemplates the role of theory, Indigenous language, queerness, and fantastical worlds in all his artistic pursuits. This volume is imbued with Whitehead's energy and celebrates Indigenous writers and...
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Traduit de l'anglais par Arianne Des Rochers
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Vivant hors réserve et cherchant tant bien que mal à s'acclimater à la vie urbaine, Jonny devient travailleur du cybersexe pour gagner sa vie. Il a devant lui très exactement une semaine avant de devoir rentrer à la réserve pour assister aux funérailles de son beau-père. Les sept jours qui suivent se déclinent comme un rêve enfiévré: histoires d'amour, traumatismes, sexe, liens familiaux,...
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This exciting and groundbreaking fiction anthology showcases a number of new and emerging 2SQ (Two-Spirit and queer Indigenous) writers from across Turtle Island. These visionary authors show how queer Indigenous communities can bloom and thrive through utopian narratives that detail the vivacity and strength of 2SQness throughout its plight in the maw of settler colonialism's histories.
Here, readers will discover bio-engineered AI rats, transplanted...
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Le territoire – parent, amant, esprit, mère, tante – a façonné le corps autochtone. Joshua Whitehead cartographie avec sensualité et joie
la relation entre corps et territoire, bouleversant les idées reçues sur l'identité autochtone, les traumatismes de l'histoire, la santé mentale et la guérison. Voyage intérieur, auto-enracinement, Joshua Whitehead creuse son corps et ses angoisses. Émerge une nouvelle narration o la perte et la souffrance...
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A moving and deeply personal excavation of Indigenous beauty and passion in a suffering world
In prose that is evocative and sensual, unabashedly queer and visceral, raw and autobiographical, Joshua 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,...