It Was Never Going to Be Okay

It Was Never Going to Be Okayit was never going to be okay is a collection of poetry and prose exploring the intimacies of understanding intergenerational trauma, Indigeneity and queerness, while addressing urban Indigenous diaspora and breaking down the limitations of sexual understanding as a trans woman. As a way to move from the linear timeline of healing and coming to terms with how trauma does not exist in subsequent happenings, it was never going to be okay tries to break

Te Whare Wānaka o Aoraki-Lincoln U

yet more complicated and salient issues are at the heart of these poems

seven indigenous high school students died in Thunder Bay

to the occupation of the Tohono O'odham reservation and the recent launch of robotic bee swarms

and numerous records from archives in the United States and Canada

sweeping work of history

Each section begins with a poem from traditional oral literatures and closes with emerging poets

ranging from Andrew Jackson to John Chivington and George Armstrong Custer

It is rare to be able to call a book something so grand and full—and have it be utterly true

Warrior was immersed in Ponca history and language from birth

building justice systems

economic development