Saad Fluid like Tó our langua is mysteriosa and fluid spit resting on my shiny lengua watch out for squish switch code poetic shifts so softly you miss it if you don’t know i switch on and off/off and on my switched code tripped by what surrounds my mind the time/space of day minutes switch... Continue Reading →
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RIP Miss Major Griffin-Gracy. It was a gift to have you while we did, journey on safely auntie! Thinking about Miss Major gets me thinking about the many ways 2SLGBTQ people have had to hack their lives in order to survive…we all deserve some respect and letters after our name, for sure. Our talk, our... Continue Reading →
Future Song i saw fc and yellowhair at the stacked houses with honeycombed walls their mouths moving the sound reaching me on a delayed beat saad to sin their chants make me tap my foot dust clouds rising around their moccasin feet they’ve much to sing about saad to sin in ceremony first about the... Continue Reading →
Diné Pride 2025
Bidziil as in Nádleehí! Another Pride season has come and gone, but Iʼm still thinking of the love and strength of our beloved Nádleehí and Dilbaa kʼéʼ. We are now almost through the month of ripening early crops of corn, squash, and maybe some melons. We are also just coming off of a time of... Continue Reading →
Gender(ing) in a Bordertown
Gender in a Bordertown hits all somehow, amiright? I mean have you ever thought about it? To me, Bordertowns, whether you’re in Kinłaní–or any other town/settlement that neighbors a Native nation–gender is more fluid, or just all somehow, and harder to pin down, so therefore it gets policed even more. But that’s met with some... Continue Reading →
Saad Part Ts’ost’id
So many words, yes? Yes. Two of note: rights and marriage. These two words have been politicized to all get out, especially in this here settler-colonial nation. And in Native nations this debate was played out on a political platform nineteen years ago. In the end the Navajo Nation Council voted in support of a... Continue Reading →
Saad: Part Hastáá
Where to begin? build on a poem hard packed earth (hogan-floor-packed) dirt tamped down by millions of footsteps shuffling and scraping smooth silica (molecules now aligned) becomes our blank page where we begin writing the poem the act poiesis where we start where we make poems are our song our laments our anger our healing ... Continue Reading →
Pride / Ahé’héé’ nitsáago
Excuse My BEAUTY! Happy Pride Month you homo…sapiens! Ayyyee. But for real, I hope you are all out there being your best Queer selves, remembering our foremothers, who on that June night at the Stonewall Inn in 1969, exhausted and fed up with police harassment, they threw hands, literally and figuratively. Their hands, bricks, and... Continue Reading →
Saad Part Ashdlá Manifest-Aóo!
To me a manifesto is a poetics of a community, it is beautifully heartfelt, compassion-based, and inclusive (in the best of cases), and can be used to set us apart from others, our intersections are unique to us and our language of community is likewise, distinct and beautiful. Manifestos allow us to announce our existence,... Continue Reading →
Saad: Part Dįį’
“...In that engagement in spirit and heart we will always know who we are. It will never be taken from us ever again, ever. Ever, ever, ever.”1 –Dr. Myra Laramee “Skoden!”2 –the kids Declaring our presence with a word! Imagine! Two-Spirit, Indigiqueer, all these words are a declaration, a resistance. Two-Spirit is the container for... Continue Reading →
