#Indian publishing

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Indigenous Science Saturday

This week we focus on Native American ways of scientific knowledge with three publications from our Native American Literature Collection. The first is a 2013 publication by UW-Madison plant ecology PhD and SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry professor Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, published in Minneapolis by Milkweed Editions. In her book, Kimmerer, a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, focuses on plants and botany as seen through Native American traditions and Western scientific traditions by foregrounding alternative forms of Indigenous knowledge outside of traditional scientific methodologies. Critically acclaimed, the book was on the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Washington Post bestseller lists and received the 2014 Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award.

Standing Rock Sioux educator, academic, and activist Vine Deloria, Jr.’s 1997 book Red Earth, White Lies: Native Americans and the Myth of Scientific Fact, published in Golden, Colorado by Fulcrum Publishing, while quite popular, has been critically panned for privileging Indigenous belief systems over scientific evidence. In the book, Deloria presents a critique of Western scientific models of Native American origins and the idea that Indigenous peoples were partially responsible of the extinction of North American megafauna. Deloria likens the dominant migration theory to "academic folklore."

The last example is an early issue from our collection of Winds of Change, the magazine of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES), a nationally distributed magazine focused on “career and educational advancement for American Indians/Alaska Natives/Native Hawaiians/First Nations, with an emphasis on STEM,” founded in 1986 and still published five times a year. We are particularly fascinated by the IBM advertisement on the back cover of this issue for “Native American Craft,” promoting the engineering manufacturing of Cherokee Nation Industries, today owned by Cherokee Nation Businesses.

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[variousqueerthings]

Some Queer Reading Resources (non-comprehensive)

@youandthemountains and @hunkydorkling

Some Queer Reading Resources (non-comprehensive) that follow along a varied memoir, autobiographical, political fictional line – that is, all of these are stories, whether non-fictional or fictional. Most (possibly/probably all) are political in the sense that queer bodies are – as other marginalised bodies – forced to consider themselves as political, and often choose to revel in this politicalness by being deliberately openly radical in response.

There are books that are purely academic and/or political texts (such as the recent “The Transgender Issue” by Shon Faye) that I haven’t included, since I felt like “story” was the keyword here. However, if anyone wants another list that’s more objective theory, culture, politics, history, I can do an equally non-comprehensive list on that.

The other part of its premise is the messiness of queer identity – how it intersects, argues, shifts, collides, co-inhabits, and contradicts. There are a lot of heavy themes, but – I think anyway – a lot of joy in community and discovery. Do look up trigger warnings if you need them.

Last of all, that non-comprehensive part. I am but an single person, with my limitations. If you have access to libraries or book shops with LGBTQ+ sections I recommend asking there if you want something specific. My main limitations are country-specific. A lot of these are based in the US or the UK (with a couple outside and/or with mixed ethnicities and/or locations within them).

Anyone can feel free to add if there’s something they feel passionate about in terms of the power of memoir and/or stories that connect to queer community/history/politics.

Books that have made me feel things:

Now You See Me: Lesbian Life Stories edited by Jane Traies

Amateur: A True Story Of What Makes A Man by Thomas Page McBee

Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, And The Rest Of Us by Kate Bornstein

There Is No Word For It edited by Libro Bridgeman (note, it may be under their former name)

The Appendix: Transmasculine Joy in a Transphobic Culture by Liam Konemann

Zami: A New Spelling Of My Name by Audre Lorde

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

Dykes To Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel

To Survive On These Shores edited by Jess T Dugan and Vanessa Fabbre: https://www.tosurviveonthisshore.com/interviews

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Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

Confessions Of The Fox by Jordy Rosenberg

Maurice by EM Forster

The Price Of Salt by Patricia Highsmith

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Midnight Cowboy by James Leo Herlihy 

Books I have yet to read:

Are You My Mother by Alison Bechdel

The Secret To Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel

Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation edited by Kate Bornstein

We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir by Samra Habib

Unicorn: The Memoir Of A Muslim Drag Queen by Amrou Al-Kadhi

Man Alive by Thomas Page McBee

Detransition Baby by Torrey Peters

Trans/Love: Radical Sex Love And Relationships Beyond The Gender Binary edited by Morty Diamond

Take Me There: Trans and Genderqueer Erotica edited by Tristan Taormino

Same-Sex Love in India Readings from Literature and History by Ruth Vanita and Saleem Kidwai

Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender edited by Riki Wilchins and Julia Serano

Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme edited by Ivan E. Coyote and Zena Sharman

Nonbinary Memoirs of Gender and Identity by Micah Rajunov and Scott Duane

Let the Record Show A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 by Sarah Schulman

Burn The Binary: Selected Writing On The Politics Of Being Trans, Genderqueer, And Nonbinary edited by Riki Anne Wilchins

Becoming A Visible Man by Jamison Green

Drag King Dreams by Leslie Feinberg

I’m Afraid Of Men by Vivek Shraya

Eating Fire: My Life As A Lesbian Avenger by Kelly Cogswell

Exile And Pride: Disability, Queerness, And Liberation by Eli Clare

The Butch Monologues edited by Libro Bridgeman (note, it may be under their former name)

Disavowals / Aveux Non Avenus by Claude Cahun (if anyone knows of a translation of this from French to English I would be eternally at their service)

Free To Be Me: Refugee Stories From The Lesbian Immigration Support Group edited by Jane Traies

Under The Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta

La Bastarda by Trifonia Melibea Obono

[narratorstragedy]

thinking abt the guy in my english class who presented on an essay and was like “this essay was translated from indian” and on his slides it said it had been translated from “hindu”

[normalweirdoboy]

31-07-21

Ahh I've been wasting my time all day by binge watching 'Descendants of the Sun'. It's my first time watching it, been avoiding it 'cause it's popular... And I prefer not to trust mainstream opinion :') But hey, it's worth the reviews, superb, maybe a lil overdramatic, but the acting's good.

Oh and that, above, is the synopsis of my very first novel. I submitted the manuscript this morning, for a contest sorta thing, if I get selected, I can have it published. Which would be really cool since i mostly self publish. Except that one short story that I co-authored for in an anthology. I'll write about it some other day XD

So yes, I really wanna get selected, 'cause then I'll be able to prove it to my parents that yes I can make a career out of my writings too. Pray for me guys... Though I don't think I'll be selected... There will be hundreds of submissions thousand times better than my sh*tty story about an English kid falling for a local Bengali girl. Ughh... Why couldn't I come up with a better plot!!

Anyways, gonna do my chemistry assignment now. Deadline is 9th, gotta finish before that...

- Normalweirdoboy

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ARC Giveaway: The Other Man by Farhad J. Dadyburjor

ARC Giveaway: The Other Man by Farhad J. Dadyburjor

The gifts of Pride month continue with this giveaway for two advance reader copies of The Other Man by Farhad J. Dadyburjor, a gay rom-com set in Mumbai (!) and releasing October 12th from Lake Union Publishing! Here’s the story: Heir to his father’s Mumbai business empire, Ved Mehra has money, looks, and status. He is also living as a closeted gay man. Thirty-eight, lonely, still reeling from a…

[yourdailyqueer]

Vasudhendra

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Gay

DOB: Born 1969

Ethnicity: Indian

Occupation: Writer, publisher, activist, software engineer 

[cree-ruhhnaynayy]

I published my first story on Vocal, in honor of my mother and my Grandpa Lloyd Paul. I’ve always loved to write, and I feel I have plenty to say. If you get the opportunity, please let me know what you think!

[fciyaz]

i started impulse reading a book abt the black west that my dad has owned for a really long time & even though reading small texts is annoying for me i'm excited to get off of work so i can read more tomorrow

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नमस्कार मित्रों, वीकेंड की शुरुवात हो चुकी हैं और इसे धमाकेदार बनाने एवं कॉमिक्स प्रसंशकों के संग्रह को और बढ़ाने के लिए राज कॉमिक्स बाय मनोज गुप्ता ने कमर कस ली हैं। कॉमिक्स जगत के अद्वितीय आर्टिस्टों का शानदार चित्रांकन इस बार आपकों इन सब संग्राहक अंकों के आवरण पर देखने को मिलेगा जिसमें दिग्गज कलाकार श्री दिलीप कदम जी, श्री अनुपम सिन्हा जी और श्री विनोद कुमार जी शामिल हैं। नागराज, सुपर कमांडो…

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Native American/First Nations Woman Writer of the Week

DEBORAH A. MIRANDA

Deborah A. Miranda is poet, professor, and recipient of the 2000 Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers Writer of the Year Award. An enrolled member of the Ohlone-Costanoan Esselen Nation of California, Miranda was born in Los Angeles to an Esselen/Chumash father and a Jewish-French mother⁠—a mix of cultures that play a central role in the author’s writing. 

UWM Special Collections preserves a signed presentation copy to our library (which is named after Golda Meir, who grew up in Milwaukee) of Miranda’s 1999 poetry collection Indian Cartography: Poems, published by the historically diverse Greenfield Review Press. The book received the Diane Decorah Memorial First Book Award for Poetry from the Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas, a special honor as it is one of the few literary awards presented to Native Americans by Native Americans. The book’s cover is a monoprint, called “August Sky,” by Kathleen R. Smith of the Mihilikawna Pomo and Yoletamal Coast Miwokwhich. Our collection also holds a signed presentation copy of Miranda’s 2005 poetry collection, The Zen of La Llorona, published by Salt Publishing. This collection was nominated for the Lambda Literary Award, which celebrates “vibrant, dynamic” LGBTQ storytelling.

In her author’s note for Indian Cartography: Poems, Miranda observes that people believed all Natives of California to have “died.” Acknowledging her peoples’ struggles, the author dedicates the book: “for my tribe, my family, our children.” This first collection focuses on the author’s childhood and her journey back to her Ohlone-Costanoan Esselen roots, after Spanish Missions’ and Mexican secularization’s near erasure of the culture. Miranda dedicates The Zen of La Llorona to her spouse, poet, Margo Solod, stating that this second collection of her poetry is 

a record of my journey out of destruction and into a North American indigenous state of creativity, the erotic, and joy. 

This book follows the author’s personal growth into adulthood and motherhood, through a divorce, and her attempts at finding love as a queer person. In this collection, Miranda states that Indigenous peoples are all children of La Llorona, as they continue to fight for federal recognition in the American historical canon after surviving termination efforts by the U.S. government for decades. 

Deborah Miranda continues to write and is currently the Thomas H. Broadus, Jr. Professor of English Emeritus at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. Her research includes Indigenous women's poetry, California Indian issues both historically and in contemporary times, and North American Indigenous environmental and social justice concerns. She runs workshops at universities across the United States and maintains a blog through Twitter under the username, @badndns.

The photographic portrait used here is by Margo Solod from the website Split this Rock, presenting Miranda’s poem “We.”

See other writers we have featured in Native American/First Nations Woman Writer of the Week.

–Isabelle, Special Collections Undergraduate Writing Intern

We acknowledge that in Milwaukee we live and work on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk, and Menominee homelands along the southwest shores of Michigami, part of North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee, and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida, and Mohican nations remain present.

[tragedies-and-dreams]

The Clothing of Books by Jhumpa Lahiri

The Clothing of Books by Jhumpa Lahiri

In this short and meditative piece, Jhumpa Lahiri examines the role that book jackets play in a person’s reading experience and the responsibility they have in not only conveying the book within but in catching someone’s attention. Lahiri looks back to her youth and recalls how the books she borrowed from at the library were ‘naked’. Lahiri considers how book jackets have changed over the years,…

[eastern-eye]

THE 2021 edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) resumed after a gap of more than four months on Sunday (19) and former champions Chennai Super Kings(CSK) beat defending champions Mumbai Indians (MI) by 20 runs to go to the top of the points table.

The yellow brigade had a horrific start to their innings after captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni won the toss and elected to bat in the match played at Dubai International Cricket Stadium.

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[timemymother]

WHY IS THE EIGHTH LIFE SO EXPENSIVE????