Jaye Simpson

Broschiertes Buch

It Was Never Going to Be Okay

Beschreibung

1. Author is an award-winning slam poet 2. Work provides an important perspective of what it was like growing up as a Indigenous and LGBTQIA2S person in the child welfare system 3. Has over 3,500 Twitter followers 4. Has published extensively in literary publications such as This Magazine, PRISM International and Room Magazine

Autor

jaye simpson is a Two-Spirit Oji-Cree person of the Buffalo Clan with roots in Sapotaweyak and Skownan Cree Nation who often writes about being queer in the child welfare system, as well as being queer and Indigenous. simpson's work has been performed at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word (2017) in Peterborough, and in Guelph with the Vancouver Slam Poetry 2018 Team. simpson has recently been named the Vancouver Champion for the Women of the World Poetry Slam and their work has been featured in Poetry Is Dead, This Magazine, PRISM international, SAD Mag, GUTS Magazine and Room. simpson resides on the unceded and ancestral territories of the xwm¿θkw¿y¿¿m (Musqueam), s¿lilw¿ta'¿¿ (Tsleil-Waututh) and Sk_wx_wü7mesh (Squamish) First Nations peoples, currently and colonially known as Vancouver, BC.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nightwood Editions
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 200mm x 136mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 144g
• ISBN-13: 9780889713826
• ISBN-10: 0889713820
• Artikelnr.: 59257483