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the seven sacred ways of healing
From: The Care We Dream Of
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The author begins the chapter with poetry and continues with their experience returning to their estranged relatives and indigenous community in a women-led healing ceremony.
Contributors
jaye simpson
jaye simpson is an Oji-Cree Saulteaux Indigiqueer from the Sapotaweyak Cree Nation. simpson is a writer, advocate, and activist sharing their knowledge and lived experiences in hope of creating utopia. they are published in several magazines including Poetry Is Dead, This Magazine, PRISM international, SAD Mag: Green, GUTS magazine, subTerrain, Grain, and Room. they are in two anthologies: Hustling Verse (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2019) and Love after the End (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2020). it was never going to be okay (Nightwood Editions) is their first book of poetry, published in October 2020. It won the 2021 Indigenous Voices Award for poetry published in English, was nominated for a ReLit Award for poetry, and was a finalist for the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers. they are a displaced Indigenous person resisting, ruminating, and residing on xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) First Nations territories, colonially known as Vancouver.
