It has been digitally altered to suit my needs.” Another photo, though, remains beyond his grasp – an image of his family, held at the archives of the University of Alberta. Under a picture of Queen Victoria’s throne, he writes: “I have acquired and used this photograph without permission. “Did you know that when you wrote this down the river would remember it?” In recounting these histories, Weigel re-situates them. This body memory is inextricable from land and water. I massage it until it says the word treaty,” Weigel writes. “I wake up at 6am to a weight on my chest. Weigel juxtaposes the machinations of the Canadian government with other versions of the story official history bumps up against memories recorded in the body, exposing corruption and violence. Macdonald and his government used treaties to dispossess Indigenous peoples of their lands. Drawing on government records, archival images and his own family history, Matthew James Weigel blends prose and poetry to look how John A. It Was Treaty / It Was Me feels almost like a collage. His words and art have been published by people like Book*Hug and The Mamawi Project, while his first self-published chapbook “…whether they took treaty or not, they were subject to the laws of the Dominion” is held in Bruce Peel Special Collections. Matthew James Weigel (he/him) is a Dene and Métis poet and artist pursuing an MA in English at the University of Alberta. While it does not arrive at a definition, the collection follows the author’s journey healing from a history of abuse and coming to accept her queer which is fluid and changing. Queer/ Joy attempts to define a queerness inextricably attached to sexual trauma, female and queer friendships, body insecurity and more. She is currently living on the unceded territory of the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee and the Huron-Wendatg people, where she will complete a Master of Arts in English Literature at Queen’s University.Įmma Rhodes is one of the finalists for the 2021 Vallum Chapbook Award for her chapbook Queer/Joy. In 2021 she was the recipient of the Robert Clayton Casto Poetry Prize. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in places such as Prism International, Riddle Fence, Qwerty, Plenitude, and elsewhere. ……………………………………… the crunch, cuts on the roof of my mouth, trying ……………………………………… my face from the harsh winter air or ……………………………………… The way their lips gripped the glass, the ambiguous ……………………………………… with another friend and playing chess. Was after kissing my best friend in 7 th grade.
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