![]() ![]() ![]() But I learned from not only Whitehead’s introduction but from each of the writers and their stories, that this version of the apocalypse is very white. The question explored in each story is, as Joshua Whitehead tells us in his introduction, “What does it mean to be Two-Spirit during the apocalypse?”Īs a white reader, the word “apocalypse” conjures images pulled from popular media: meteors crashing to earth, war, explosions, death, violence, famine, drought, every-man-for-himself, cataclysm, the end of all things. ![]() Love After the End is a collection of nine short speculative fiction stories written by Indigenous, queer, and Two-Spirit writers and storytellers. And I hear my Two-Spirit persona Jonny Appleseed reverberating in my thorax, itching to sing: ‘We are our own best medicine.’” “So, here, in the opening pages of this anthology, I, too, put medicine down for you so that you may see the braids of Two-Spiritness glowing in the glaze of ink and paper. ![]()
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