{"product_id":"full-metal-indigiqueer","title":"full-metal indigiqueer","description":"\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"o_Message_sidebar d-flex flex-shrink-0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"o_Message_authorAvatarContainer o_Message_sidebarItem position-relative\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" name=\"root\" class=\"o_PersonaImStatusIcon d-flex flex-column fa-stack o-has-open-chat cursor-pointer o-offline o_Message_personaImStatusIcon position-absolute bottom-0 end-0 align-items-center justify-content-center text-white small text-100\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"o_PersonaImStatusIcon_outerBackground fa fa-circle fa-stack-1x\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"o_PersonaImStatusIcon_innerBackground fa fa-circle fa-stack-1x\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\" aria-label=\"User is offline\" role=\"img\" title=\"Offline\" class=\"o_PersonaImStatusIcon_icon o-offline fa fa-circle-o fa-stack-1x text-700\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"o_Message_core flex-grow-1\"\u003eJoshua Whitehead is an Oji-Cree, Two-Spirit storyteller and academic from Peguis First Nation on Treaty 1 territory in Manitoba. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"o_Message_bubbleWrap position-relative d-flex align-items-start\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"o_Message_bubble position-relative w-100 text-muted\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"o_Message_content position-relative text-break\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"o_Message_prettyBody\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis poetry collection focuses on a hybridized Indigiqueer Trickster character named Zoa who brings together the organic (the protozoan) and the technologic (the binaric) in order to re-beautify and re-member queer Indigeneity. This Trickster is a Two-Spirit \/ Indigiqueer invention that resurges in the apocalypse to haunt, atrophy, and to reclaim. Following oral tradition (à la Iktomi, Nanaboozho, Wovoka), Zoa infects, invades, and becomes a virus to canonical and popular works in order to re-centre Two-Spirit livelihoods. They dazzlingly and fiercely take on the likes of Edmund Spenser, Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, and John Milton while also not forgetting contemporary pop culture figures such as Lana Del Rey, Grindr, and Peter Pan. Zoa world-builds a fourth-dimension, lives in the cyber space, and survives in NDN-time – they have learned to sing the skin back onto their bodies and remain #woke at the end of the world. “Do not read me as a vanished ndn,” they ask, “read me as a ghastly one.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003efull-metal indigiqueer is influenced by the works of Abel, Tanya Tagaq, Daniel Heath Justice, Claudia Rankine, Vivek Shraya, Qwo-Li Driskill, Leanne Simpson, Kent Monkman, and Donna Haraway. It is a project of resurgence for Two-Spirit \/ Indigiqueer folk who have been ghosted in policy, page, tradition, and hi\/story – the very lives of Two-Spirit \/ Indigiqueer youth are rarely mentioned (and even dispossessed in our very mandates for reconciliation), our lives are precarious but they too are precious. We find ourselves made spectral in settler and neocolonial Indigenous nationalisms – if reconciliation is a means of “burying the hatchet,” Zoa seeks to unearth the bones buried with those hatched scalps and perform a séance to ghost dance Indigiqueerness into existence. Zoa world-destroys in order to world-build a new space – they care little for reconciliation but rather aim to reterroritorialize space in literature, pop culture, and oral storytelling. This project follows in the tradition of the aforementioned authors who, Whitehead believes, utilize deconstruction as a means of decolonization. This is a sex-positive project that tirelessly works to create coalition between those who have, as Haraway once noted, “been injured, profoundly.” Zoa stands in solidarity with all qpoc folk who exist as ghosts with intergenerational and colonial phantom pains – they sing with Donna Summer, RuPaul, Effie White, and Trixie Mattel. The space made is a post-apocalyptic hub of sex and decolonization – a world where making love is akin to making live.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eShort-listed 2018 Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eShort-listed 2018 Indigenous Voices Award for Most Significant Work of Poetry in English by an emerging Indigenous writer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Talonbooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56394956931377,"sku":"ylc1789939116921","price":9.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0993\/0925\/7009\/files\/full-metal-indigiqueer_1.jpg?v=1789939121","url":"https:\/\/canistersealfit.shop\/products\/full-metal-indigiqueer","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}