disregarding their rightful Indian owners

and how their working relationship developed and served them both

and of dancing with your heart

They deserve the truth

a Nipmuc scholar

It Was Never Going to Be Okay Ojibwe disregarding their rightful Indian ownersit 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