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Tag Archives: Native
“Ink on paper, picking up trails”: A Review of Beth Brant’s MOHAWK TRAIL
If you’ve never heard of Beth Brant (Degonwadonti), that’s a damn shame. I mean, she’s one of the founding grandmothers of lesbian writing in English, of Native lesbian writers, and women of colour writers. Shame on me for not reading … Continue reading
Posted in Canadian, Fiction, Indigenous, Poetry, Postcolonial
Tagged aboriginal, Canadian, first nations, Lesbian Fiction, Native, poetry, Postcolonial Fiction
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An Exhilarating End to Daniel Heath Justice’s Queer Native Fantasy Trilogy: DREYD: THE WAY OF THORN AND THUNDER
I can’t imagine a better, more satisfying finish to Daniel Heath Justice’s fantasy trilogy than Dreyd, the final, exhilarating book. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, you should have a look at my review of the first and … Continue reading
Posted in Bisexual, Canadian, Fantasy, Fiction, Indigenous
Tagged aboriginal, Canadian authors, Canadian Fiction, Canadian Literature, Native
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A Review of Daniel Heath Justice’s Kynship: The Queer, Indigenous, Feminist Fantasy Novel You Never Knew You Wanted So Bad
I made a terrible mistake everyone. I had Kynship, the first book in the fantasy trilogy The Way of Thorn and Thunder by Daniel Heath Justice, sitting in the closet at my dad’s house for like two years and I … Continue reading
A Review of Lee Maracle’s Ravensong: Queering Decolonization, Decolonizing Queerness
Salish- Métis author Lee Maracle’s 1993 novel Ravensong doesn’t centre around queerness or lesbian sexuality or two-spirit identity in the way that you might expect in a book reviewed here. It’s a beautiful and powerful novel about settler and Indigenous … Continue reading
Posted in Canadian, Fiction, Indigenous, Lesbian, Postcolonial, Queer, Vancouver
Tagged books, Lee Maracle, literature, Native, raincoast books, Salish
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Casey the Canadian Lesbrarian 