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It was never going to be okay, jaye simpson

Label
It was never going to be okay, jaye simpson
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Index
no index present
Literary Form
poetry
Main title
It was never going to be okay
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
1145696829
Responsibility statement
jaye simpson
Summary
"it 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 breakdown years of silence in their debut collection of poetry: i am five my sisters are saying boy i do not know what the word means but-- i am bruised into knowing it: the blunt b, the hollowness of the o, the blade of y."--, Provided by publisher
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