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Poetry tells a story through images that evoke feelings and emotions. I'm honoured to be moderating this online panel of Indigenous poets for the Victoria Festival of Authors on October 18.
tickets are on sale, hope to see you in the crowd.
victoriafestivalofauthors.ca
tickets are on sale, hope to see you in the crowd.
victoriafestivalofauthors.ca
October 8, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Poetry tells a story through images that evoke feelings and emotions. I'm honoured to be moderating this online panel of Indigenous poets for the Victoria Festival of Authors on October 18.
tickets are on sale, hope to see you in the crowd.
victoriafestivalofauthors.ca
tickets are on sale, hope to see you in the crowd.
victoriafestivalofauthors.ca
Update. I did manage to get to three bookstores which is a great way to see a city on an overcast drizzly day. And ducked into a decent Ramen spot for lunch during the worst of it. Signed these at Iron Dog Books on E Hastings
October 2, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Update. I did manage to get to three bookstores which is a great way to see a city on an overcast drizzly day. And ducked into a decent Ramen spot for lunch during the worst of it. Signed these at Iron Dog Books on E Hastings
Back in Vancouver bitches. Who's going to be at Massy Books tomorrow night?
October 1, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Back in Vancouver bitches. Who's going to be at Massy Books tomorrow night?
Got to spend some time with Sarah Augustine. If you haven't read her books, do yourself a favor and plug her name into the search engine of your favorite bookstore. It was Sarah who said "They never asked what good news WE had for THEM."
September 30, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Got to spend some time with Sarah Augustine. If you haven't read her books, do yourself a favor and plug her name into the search engine of your favorite bookstore. It was Sarah who said "They never asked what good news WE had for THEM."
If you're in Niagara and you missed the book launch last week, I'll be at the Lincoln Public Library on September 29th from 6:30 - 7:30. Read a little, answer some questions, it will be fun! I love libraries and am always happy to show up at one.
lppl.ca/event/author...
lppl.ca/event/author...
September 22, 2025 at 3:39 PM
If you're in Niagara and you missed the book launch last week, I'll be at the Lincoln Public Library on September 29th from 6:30 - 7:30. Read a little, answer some questions, it will be fun! I love libraries and am always happy to show up at one.
lppl.ca/event/author...
lppl.ca/event/author...
I didn't know that Little Golden Books published horror for children but this one looks pretty good.
September 17, 2025 at 12:52 PM
I didn't know that Little Golden Books published horror for children but this one looks pretty good.
And if you're in Vancouver, on October 2 I'll be talking about Indigenous Geographies and what separates Land Back from modern ethnostates with @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social
September 14, 2025 at 3:26 PM
And if you're in Vancouver, on October 2 I'll be talking about Indigenous Geographies and what separates Land Back from modern ethnostates with @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social
omg, what's going on. is that a BOX OF BOOKS?!!!!
Yes it is. Only two more sleeps until release day.
#booksky #BadIndiansBookClub #Indigenous
Yes it is. Only two more sleeps until release day.
#booksky #BadIndiansBookClub #Indigenous
September 14, 2025 at 3:26 PM
omg, what's going on. is that a BOX OF BOOKS?!!!!
Yes it is. Only two more sleeps until release day.
#booksky #BadIndiansBookClub #Indigenous
Yes it is. Only two more sleeps until release day.
#booksky #BadIndiansBookClub #Indigenous
"Bad Indians don’t play along when you expect them to think and act in a certain way... Bad Indians, when given the chance, offer revelatory ways of thinking about a world you assumed you understood."
An interview, and review, in Foreword Magazine.
mailchi.mp/forewordrevi...
An interview, and review, in Foreword Magazine.
mailchi.mp/forewordrevi...
September 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
"Bad Indians don’t play along when you expect them to think and act in a certain way... Bad Indians, when given the chance, offer revelatory ways of thinking about a world you assumed you understood."
An interview, and review, in Foreword Magazine.
mailchi.mp/forewordrevi...
An interview, and review, in Foreword Magazine.
mailchi.mp/forewordrevi...
In one of the short stories that I wrote for BIBC, a character wears this Live, Laugh, Lurk t-shirt designed by @johnniejae.bsky.social You can own one too. I had a hard time choosing which t-shirt to use but this one was perfect.
official-johnnie-jae.myspreadshop.com/live.+laugh....
official-johnnie-jae.myspreadshop.com/live.+laugh....
September 2, 2025 at 7:01 PM
In one of the short stories that I wrote for BIBC, a character wears this Live, Laugh, Lurk t-shirt designed by @johnniejae.bsky.social You can own one too. I had a hard time choosing which t-shirt to use but this one was perfect.
official-johnnie-jae.myspreadshop.com/live.+laugh....
official-johnnie-jae.myspreadshop.com/live.+laugh....
Do you love the cover art? I sure do. That's a painting of Wanada Parker by J. NiCole Hatfield and you can find more of her work here. There's lots for sale, from paintings to prints to totebags and more.
www.nahmiahpiahart.com
www.nahmiahpiahart.com
September 2, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Do you love the cover art? I sure do. That's a painting of Wanada Parker by J. NiCole Hatfield and you can find more of her work here. There's lots for sale, from paintings to prints to totebags and more.
www.nahmiahpiahart.com
www.nahmiahpiahart.com
Bad Indians Book Club: Reading at the Edge of a Thousand Worlds is on the 2025 fall list for the Canadian Independent Booksellers Association!
I love independent booksellers. If you want to organize an in person or virtual event lmk and I'll get you a pdf copy.
49thshelf.com/Blog/2025/09...
I love independent booksellers. If you want to organize an in person or virtual event lmk and I'll get you a pdf copy.
49thshelf.com/Blog/2025/09...
September 2, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Bad Indians Book Club: Reading at the Edge of a Thousand Worlds is on the 2025 fall list for the Canadian Independent Booksellers Association!
I love independent booksellers. If you want to organize an in person or virtual event lmk and I'll get you a pdf copy.
49thshelf.com/Blog/2025/09...
I love independent booksellers. If you want to organize an in person or virtual event lmk and I'll get you a pdf copy.
49thshelf.com/Blog/2025/09...
That's a common theme in many reviews, it's unlike anything they've read before, hard to categorize.
I like to think of it as a manifesto.
I like to think of it as a manifesto.
September 1, 2025 at 2:10 PM
That's a common theme in many reviews, it's unlike anything they've read before, hard to categorize.
I like to think of it as a manifesto.
I like to think of it as a manifesto.
Bad Indians Book Club is #1 in New Releases: Turtle Island Biographies on Amazon.com. It's in a lot of categories, none of which I have any control over. It's also #6 in New Releases: General Books and Reading, and #5 in New Releases: Indigenous Peoples Studies.
September 1, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Bad Indians Book Club is #1 in New Releases: Turtle Island Biographies on Amazon.com. It's in a lot of categories, none of which I have any control over. It's also #6 in New Releases: General Books and Reading, and #5 in New Releases: Indigenous Peoples Studies.
A started review in Booklist, which means the editors felt it is "outstanding in its genre." But what is its genre? I have no idea. Part memoir, part lit crit, some decolonial studies.
I like to think of it as a manifesto. Reading to change the world.
www.booklistonline.com/products/981...
I like to think of it as a manifesto. Reading to change the world.
www.booklistonline.com/products/981...
August 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
A started review in Booklist, which means the editors felt it is "outstanding in its genre." But what is its genre? I have no idea. Part memoir, part lit crit, some decolonial studies.
I like to think of it as a manifesto. Reading to change the world.
www.booklistonline.com/products/981...
I like to think of it as a manifesto. Reading to change the world.
www.booklistonline.com/products/981...
Bad Indians Book Club will be out in just over two months, September 16. One way to get an advance copy is to have me on your podcast. Another way is to get your local bookstore interested in a virtual event ahead of release day.
The first rule of Bad Indians Book Club: Always Carry A Book
The first rule of Bad Indians Book Club: Always Carry A Book
July 11, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Bad Indians Book Club will be out in just over two months, September 16. One way to get an advance copy is to have me on your podcast. Another way is to get your local bookstore interested in a virtual event ahead of release day.
The first rule of Bad Indians Book Club: Always Carry A Book
The first rule of Bad Indians Book Club: Always Carry A Book
The problem isn't Netanyahu or Trump. They don't act alone, and things have been bad for a long time. In Isreal's case, about 75 years. A few hundred more for the US.
June 24, 2025 at 8:03 PM
The problem isn't Netanyahu or Trump. They don't act alone, and things have been bad for a long time. In Isreal's case, about 75 years. A few hundred more for the US.
Omg she's even more beautiful in person. Bad Indians Book Club releases on Sep 16. Lmk if you want to talk about it on your podcast!
June 13, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Omg she's even more beautiful in person. Bad Indians Book Club releases on Sep 16. Lmk if you want to talk about it on your podcast!
It is not lost on me that on this now deleted tweet (posted this morning at 10am) the x looks a lot like a cross.
April 10, 2025 at 8:40 PM
It is not lost on me that on this now deleted tweet (posted this morning at 10am) the x looks a lot like a cross.
When I convened the panels for a podcast series about books, we had little inkling of the storm to come. The current storm is one in a long history of US attacks on dissent through regulation of free speech, which includes your right to hear and read.
Can't think of a better time to publish this.
Can't think of a better time to publish this.
February 10, 2025 at 3:55 PM
When I convened the panels for a podcast series about books, we had little inkling of the storm to come. The current storm is one in a long history of US attacks on dissent through regulation of free speech, which includes your right to hear and read.
Can't think of a better time to publish this.
Can't think of a better time to publish this.
I'm in a coffee shop drinking golden milk (ginger and tumeric) made with oat milk. Portland is changing me. I feel a compulsion to get a wool cap and a Fjällräven backpack
February 6, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I'm in a coffee shop drinking golden milk (ginger and tumeric) made with oat milk. Portland is changing me. I feel a compulsion to get a wool cap and a Fjällräven backpack
Planning my book launch in Sep and we're thinking about curating an art exhibit that also tells marginalized stories. People get headsets and walk around the exhibit, listening to me read, before an interview or something.
Which is to say I'm down to collaborate in your town with your artists.
Which is to say I'm down to collaborate in your town with your artists.
January 30, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Planning my book launch in Sep and we're thinking about curating an art exhibit that also tells marginalized stories. People get headsets and walk around the exhibit, listening to me read, before an interview or something.
Which is to say I'm down to collaborate in your town with your artists.
Which is to say I'm down to collaborate in your town with your artists.
My friends! We have a cover.
Becoming Kin challenged the stories we are told about history. In Bad Indians Book Club, we examine all the stories written from the perspective of "Bad Indians"--marginalized writers whose refusal to comply with dominant narratives opens up new worlds.
Becoming Kin challenged the stories we are told about history. In Bad Indians Book Club, we examine all the stories written from the perspective of "Bad Indians"--marginalized writers whose refusal to comply with dominant narratives opens up new worlds.
January 30, 2025 at 2:20 AM
My friends! We have a cover.
Becoming Kin challenged the stories we are told about history. In Bad Indians Book Club, we examine all the stories written from the perspective of "Bad Indians"--marginalized writers whose refusal to comply with dominant narratives opens up new worlds.
Becoming Kin challenged the stories we are told about history. In Bad Indians Book Club, we examine all the stories written from the perspective of "Bad Indians"--marginalized writers whose refusal to comply with dominant narratives opens up new worlds.
Just minding my own business reading Of Living Stone, a collection of essays about the work of Vine Deloria Jr., vibing along with an essay by Gabriel S. Galanda on Indigenous Kinship Renewal and Relational Sovereignty, and what do I see here?
Heck.
Heck.
January 27, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Just minding my own business reading Of Living Stone, a collection of essays about the work of Vine Deloria Jr., vibing along with an essay by Gabriel S. Galanda on Indigenous Kinship Renewal and Relational Sovereignty, and what do I see here?
Heck.
Heck.