It Was Never Going to Be Okay queer studies Speakers from across generations shared

Speakers from across generations shared poems that showcased the aesthetic of the written word and aimed to spread interest in reading and writing in O'odham

written from the perspective of a senior academic and curator traversing a dynamic and at turns fraught era of Native self-determination

bringing us into the overlapping worlds of white colonists and Indigenous peoples in this formative period

Read about his inspiring experiences in the Oceti Sakowin Camp at Standing Rock

and a very special auntie

It Was Never Going to Be Okay queer studies Speakers from across generations sharedit was never going to be okay is a collection of poetry and prose exploring the intimacies of understanding intergenerational trauma, Indigeneity and queerness, while addressing urban Indigenous diaspora and breaking down the limitations of sexual understanding as a trans woman. As a way to move from the linear timeline of healing and coming to terms with how trauma does not exist in subsequent happenings, it was never going to be okay tries to break