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Upcoming events and recordings (including a real book club!)

Hi dears, I'm writing to share a few events of interest coming up: Today, April 30, 4pm Eastern/3pm Central. University of Texas at San Antonio's Urban Bird Project is hosting me for a ZOOM ONLY book talk. Thursday, May 7, 7-9pm Eastern: Forge Project is

On Writing (and Pausing)

About a year before Speculative Relations came out--while it was in production and I couldn't edit anything--I was in a rhythm writing "the next book". This next book is supposed to be a memoir. A memoir or perhaps what they call narrative non-fiction. By the time

An Indian Smiling II

Mary smiles. She's eating water crackers with her friends at the Sac and Fox boarding school near Stroud, Oklahoma. She smiles and they smile watching her smile. She smiles holding a "Takhoma Biscuit," one carton sits open, another sits underneath a pitcher of water or milk.

An Indian Smiling

I'm starting a new series called "NDN smiles". It's going to last four to six weeks and mostly rely on archival photographs such as this one that are housed in digital collections--here from the Newberry Library. I have been mulling this one over for

New Site: In Process

If you are receiving this, you are successfully signed up (transferred from Substack). I'll be posting from ghost henceforth. Here's to phantasmagoric feelings. I've been traveling a bit the past couple weeks. Two weeks ago, I was in Austin giving a talk with my

Writing while not writing

I have a couple deadlines. School was supposed to start yesterday. I’m supposed to be writing, but I’m not. Or I’m writing while not writing.

The Closeted Athlete I Once Was

And a note about Heated Rivalry

Remembering Claudia Rodríguez

We, Monsters

Allow me to introduce myself

I don’t know what happened this week, but a ton of new people subscribed to this stack. I’m honored, and perhaps it would be good for me to say a few things about myself, especially for the new subscribers. I’m a citizen of Cherokee Nation, an Indigiqueer