Readings

In Berlin, I watched us queer women watching each other. But nobody seemed to lead anyone inside. Could cruising ever be a part of lesbian culture the way it is for gay men? 

I figured an ideal period of mourning for my father would have been free of disturbances of my own creation. So much for that.

The author of How to Love a Jamaican on love in its various forms, finding belonging and mediating identity between and beyond borders.

First Nations people don't believe in crossing the border, but the imaginary boundaries we're forced to move between can create very real divides.

In narratives that hinge on proving our humanness, Indigenous people sit stilled in the role of the described. As the described, our words are pit against us.

The author of My Name Is a Knife on historical fiction, frontier life, and sharing headspace with her characters. 

My grandfather had never told me about his trip to the Soviet Union in the sixties, but I don't know why I was surprised. He never told me anything, not even my grandmother's name.

The author of A Terrible Country on what a story about Russia can say about America, dark moments during writing, and why there aren't more novels about hockey.

I was told getting laid off from my dream job had nothing to do with me, but after I was let go, I felt like I had lost a part of myself that I couldn't get back.