"Mother, I am gay. I have AIDS." The telephone call that it almost killed him to make. The silence. Then, "Come home t…"

"The old women are gathered in the Longhouse. First, the ritual kissing on the cheeks, the eyes, the lips, the top of …"

"It has been two days since they came and took the children away. My body is greatly chilled. All our blankets have be…"

"Two-Spirit writers are merging the selves that colonialism splits apart."

"Homophobia is the eldest son of racism; they work in concert with each other, whether externally or internally. Nativ…"

"I look on Native women's writing as a gift, a give-away of the truest meaning. Our spirit, our sweat, our tears, our …"

"I am tired of hearing Virginia Woolf and Emily Dickinson held up as the matriarchs of feminist and/or women's literat…"

"Oral tradition requires a telling and a listening that is intense, and intentional. Giving, receiving, giving-it make…"

"Beth Brant gave us Indigenous feminism and Indigenous queer theory even before we had a name for these practices, all…"

"Beth saw her writing as an enacting of responsibility-the responsibility to help bring us all to the knowledge of how…"