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It was never going to be okay Book
author.Simpson, Jaye
Book | Nightwood Editions, Gibsons, British Columbia : 2020.

  • 1 of 1 Copy Available at Libraries in Niagara Cooperative
  • 1 of 1 Copy Available at Port Colborne Library (Show)
  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Port Colborne 811.6 SIM Adult Indigenous Non-fiction Copy hold / Volume hold Available
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"it 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 breakdown years of silence in their debut collection of poetry: i am five my sisters are saying boy i do not know what the word means but-- i am bruised into knowing it: the blunt b, the hollowness of the o, the blade of y."--
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  • ISBN: 9780889713826
  • Physical Description: 111 pages ; 21 cmprint
  • Publisher: Gibsons, British Columbia : Nightwood Editions, 2020.
  • General Note: Poems.Second printing, 2021.

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