It Was Never Going to Be Okay queer studies and a very special auntie

and a very special auntie

contains material from oral tradition and is named "Mishomis

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

Beginning with the ethnogenesis of California Indians

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

It Was Never Going to Be Okay queer studies and a very special auntieit 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