Annie Wenstrup
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Annie Wenstrup
@akwenstrup.bsky.social
Dena’ina poet. The Museum of Unnatural Histories, Wesleyan University Press, March 2025. Here for the fish.
Reposted by Annie Wenstrup
February 5, 2026 | 7-9pm Cameron Awkward-Rich, @sadqueer4life.bsky.social, Chet’la Sebree, and @akwenstrup.bsky.social
February 19, 2026 | 7-9pm Sahar Khraibani, @faridmatuk.bsky.social, Michelle Peñaloza, and @roqueraquel.bsky.social
February 28, 2026 | 2-5pm 30th Showcase Community Reading
November 6, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Our poem as it looked during the reading!
September 4, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Here’s a link to the 2023 article these quotes come from .

elpalacio.org/2024/03/grie...
August 31, 2025 at 8:40 PM
It’s not an isolated person, it’s not somebody that is unfamiliar, it’s somebody who’s part of a community who’s missing. … You know, it affects all of us. Even if we’re not directly related. I feel like we’re all from different places, but we’re all connected because we’re all Indigenous.”
August 30, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Brower told me,“They’re holding hands in the exhibit. That’s kind of how I feel we protect each other, and how we protect our families and my hometown. [Seeing them in a circle] makes people remember that they’re in a relationship.
August 30, 2025 at 8:13 PM
She also notes, “I was trying to represent our women and destigmatize them. There’s so many stories people tell about us, but they’re not historically accurate. They are not our stories”
August 30, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Webb states, “We know that the violence is happening anywhere Native women exist. The violence is part of colonization. So, I wanted to honor the grassroots work that’s been done in a lot of different communities.”
August 30, 2025 at 8:03 PM
When I spoke with Webb she told me that much of her work was informed by grassroots groups in and out of state.

“I thought I should acknowledge and connect to the work that’s being done all over the United States and Canada, where people are talking about this issue,”
August 30, 2025 at 8:03 PM
The Alaska Department of Safety avoids accountability by refusing to share demographic information about crime victims in Alaska. By not naming the victims they refuse to allow Alaskans to define the scope of violence against Alaska Natives.
August 30, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Alaska Department of Safety’s stated reason, that compiling records would take too long because “the state does not compile lists of victims of crimes” is absurd. It points to either a fundamental problem with their data management or the agency’s complete lack of fucks to give about transparency.
August 30, 2025 at 7:36 PM