Alicia Elliott is an award-winning Tuscarora writer living in Brantford, Ontario. Her first book A Mind Spread Out on the Ground is forthcoming from Doubleday Canada.
March 23, 2019
Part of me wants to say that nîtisânak is the literary equivalent of a middle finger, sporting chipped black nail polish and waving in front of Nixon’s knowing smirk. At times it is, directing justifiable anger and irreverence towards racist, transphobic, and homophobic institutions, perceptions, and people.