It Was Never Going to Be Okay queer studies and a very special auntie

and a very special auntie

contains material from oral tradition and is named "Mishomis

once completed

Beginning with the ethnogenesis of California Indians

short stories and plays encompass the soul of Native life

It Was Never Going to Be Okay queer studies and a very special auntieit 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