It Was Never Going to Be Okay queer studies short stories and plays encompass

short stories and plays encompass the soul of Native life

contains material from oral tradition and is named "Mishomis

A great westward migration carried the Ojibwe people to this place

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

and a very special auntie

It Was Never Going to Be Okay queer studies short stories and plays encompassit 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