“Something has to be done about the way in which this world is set up.”

June Jordan

Kinanaskomitin, love. You are kind. I hope your day is gentle. ❤️

"You need the ocean for this: to stop believing in reality. To ask yourself impossible questions. To not know. To cease knowing. To become intoxicated by the smell. To close your eyes. To stop believing in reality."
- Cristina Rivera Garza, The Iliac Crest

Canadian writer Canisia Lubrin wins $150K Carol Shields literary prize The judges of the annual prize for female and nonbinary writers praised Lubrin's debut short story collection, Code Noir, for breaking "new ground in short fiction."

The judges of the annual prize for female and nonbinary writers praised Lubrin's debut short story collection, Code Noir, for breaking "new ground in short fiction."

Wayne Kramer arcs his back playing a guitar painted to look like an American flag.

Art is the only defense we have against the industrial nature of the State on our bodies.

- Wayne Kramer of the MC5

#photography #music

Oh! My caption didn’t post!

It’s from “Ahtahkakoop: the epic account of a Plains Cree Head Chief, his people, and their vision for survival, 1816-1896”, a biography by Deanna Christensen.

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the river we call ka-kisiskaciwan.* Often we camp near the elbow of the South Branch, but sometimes we go even farther south to minatinähk, many nights from here. Or we go west towards the mountains to visit relatives. "This is our physical world. It is a good world, a world of plenty for the Nehiyaw, the Nehiyawak. Exact body. Exact body of people. It is the physical world in which we live. The old man grew more serious as he gathered his thoughts together. "The name Nehiyaw, Nehiyawak, the names of the places where we live and where we hold our ceremonies, the names we give these places, all these are spiritual. The Creator gave us life. Our land, which we call Mother Earth, nurtures us, gives us growth. The number four is sacred. There are four main spirit helpers, four directions, four seasons, and four stages of life childhood, young adult, adult, and old age." "The Sun, which we call kih-oskapewis, is the Great Helper of the Creator," the old man continued. "This spirit helper comes up from the east and it provides us with daylight. If it wasn't for kihc-oskapewis, who works for the Creator to give us daylight and warmth, where would the Cree be? In darkness. So we thank the Sun every morning as it comes up for this life-giving. That is the work the Creator gave the Sun. Kihc-oskapèwis never stops working for the Creator. It never did. "Okimaw-piyesiw, Chief Thunder that rumbles through the skies in the spring is also sacred. It shakes the ground and shakes the skies. Piyesiw gives people life with life-giving water, the rains that are needed for the body and the things that live on Mother Earth, the rains that are needed for the people. It gives water, which we call the milk of Mother Earth, so that Mother Earth can nurture us. The Creator planned it this way. Okimaw-piyesiw, who is in the south, gives us the water that we need to live…

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Kinanaskomitin love. Thinking of you.

your brain!! loooooooooool

when i started writing echolalia echolalia several years ago, i had no idea there would be a beautiful orange snake on the cover just in time for the year of the yin wood snake, surrounded by lush green in the form of Jia Sung's "snake eater" (2021). i'm very grateful for the gift of poetry.

We are happy to launch Workshops4sudan to raise funds for mutual aid groups in Sudan. Our debut series features the writer and abolitionist @williamcson.bsky.social and the organizer, artist and social justice educator @raniawrites.bsky.social.

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Beautiful! Wonderful! ☀️

“If you are moved by someone, by someone's work, by their friendship, anything - tell them. You don't know how much they might need that ounce of encouragement, to feel noticed, to feel like their efforts are worthwhile.”

- Victoria Wright

I’d move to Ontario for that bee

“All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. Writers are like that: remembering where we were, that valley we ran through, what the banks were like, the light that was there and the route back to our original place”

Toni Morrison

;(

I think not having 9000 angry nazis in the replies of every post I make has emboldened the 2am random thoughts to return

“Veranda” recently reentered the top 10 baby names for girls in Saskatchewan

Brainfeel. Electric feel, ooh girl

HA i found our convo about this while perusing my 947,737 screenshots the other day