Welcome to Litsy!

It‘s rare to find such a fierce and moving depiction of queer Indigenous urban life. An eye-opening, nonlinear and nonbinary memoir about family: chosen, adoptive, and birth.
#CanadianAuthor #queer #LGBT #Indigenous

I‘d been running away from home since I was 14, bolting into the night as quick as my legs could carry me, leaving behind, well, whatever event I was running fromā€”which I won‘t list here. Consider this a reminder, dear reader: thank you for reading but, while I feel no pressure to hide my pain from you and ground my story in neoliberalism, I don‘t owe you my pain.

Get your eyes off that difference, the yt gays say, just like they told me to keep my eyes off that money with their trust funds behind them. Just like an anarchist to blindly shove a political puritan envisioning of collective futures down my throat that erases class, gender & ability. That‘s not the rev; that‘s just settler-colonial dystopia now, in a different flavour. šŸ‘‡

Then there were the teachers who sexualized me, afraid that my childhood curiosity would infect their impressionable young yt men. Like the teacher who caught me writing hearts in my notebook with a classmate‘s name & got my principal to call me out of class because I was in trouble for doing something every young girl would do. Because the very suggestion of my youthful sexuality was a danger to the impressionable yt bois around me.
#Indigenous

In the prairies, The Truth is a yt man. The Truth is whatever the yt man says, and whatever truth is said by the yt man is the ruling law of the holy wild wild (prairie) west.

The upside of attending a monthly book club at a bookstore is seeing all the new books. I usually have more restraint, but I came home with three this week.

A fabulous book by this two-spirit Cree, Saulteaux, and Metis writer. A genre-defying memoir about "blood and chosen kin." Nixon writes about queer love, the unexpected death of their white adoptive mother, being a prairie punk, the complex intersections of queer and Indigenous identities, living in different parts of the prairies and the world, and more. It's funny, sad, clever, and biting. Beautiful poetic writing and startling realizations.

"Bitch"
I'm not such a man-hater. It's just that riot grrrl raised me, I'm rigorous af, and I breathe the fire of nookomis into everything I do.
#feminism

This book is so good so far!
"Can my dad ever truly love me, like decolonially love me, the way my tired spirit deserves? What is corrupt love other than obligation?"
"But I still remember when femininity was something I learned from my mother to nurture and revere. Something that is beautiful."
#QueerBooks #NativeReads