#kinsale drake

[imasradiantasthesun]

The Kids of District 12 — part 1

Bristel Littlefield, Thom Littlefield, Delly Cartwright, and Leevy Salsbury

[ravena-ohridska]

Kinsale Drake as Piper Mclean

She's Navajo. I couldn't find any model from Cherokee ancestry around Piper's age, but if you know any PLEASE tell me 🙏🏻

Also, she's not an actress, she's an influencer/activist.

[3-feet-high-and-rising]

[poemsunday]

Ancestors’ wildest dreams

by Kinsale Drake

r drunk on the sticky floor

of a Denny’s texting gma Ayóó anííníshní;

& crying in the same hot breath abt

not knowing the right word for apology

if one exists keyboard smashing

resilience resilience reslienceResielance

as we delete IG so we don’t

have to see ppl out-sacred-ing

each other Maybe we’re only sovereign

in bed sometimes drowning

in the dark and in the soft pools

of their eyes, living off the hard tack

of their thighs moving to an MCR mixtape

We froth Ancestors’ sleep-paralysis

demon caught in cold sweat and skipped

therapy untangling our bodies

from sheets always untangling

hair out from under somewhere

Fractals left in corners, under juniper

berry branches Do we even remember

how gma baked her pies? The cornstalks

stretched higher than Holy People

that yr ... & we came home buzzed

on lemonade & an auntie’s laughter ... 

Everyone is always talking about

an ancestor that is or isn’t

pleased

BUT—

I saw a strawberry moon tonight rising ... 

I learned the word in my language for laugh ...

We found it together:

Dloh dloh dloh dloh

We eat it

We setting-spray it to the page

[largethingslargerthings]

Meditative Week of Poetry: Kinsale Drake

1. In winter we are closest, in the desert, to the ocean that once held nautiloids, corals, cartilaginous fishes … We do not unearth their fossils lest they sit in museums. Diné tour guides make signs on the side of the road, usher cars into invisible parking spots amid the pools of half-melted snow. They remove nothing, pushing bills down into their pockets.

2. Clouds leave our bodies like great whales when the desert swims in song from a truck’s thrown-open door. The heat escapes into the ocean of sky.

3. White historians claim that the Spanish brought over the first horses. Modern genetics and scientific opinion suggest that there is no evidence that these horses are not the same as the ancestors that once roamed the continent before traveling to Eurasia. The ocean had given way by this time to swamp, ice, and fire. Rocks are the oldest storytellers, my friend Gusti tells me. The Badlands shrink behind us, gray teeth swimming in ghosts.

4. It was a warm, shallow sea. This brings comfort during a blizzard in the Northeast.

5. Mid-19th century scientists claimed to know these fossils better by cataloging, sectioning off, drilling holes, carting off to museums. Locals told stories and left them where they always had been.

6. Algal reefs shroud the sun, three hundred feet high. Water becomes shadow, then bright bursts of plankton, fiery, hurtling towards the sand.

7. A whale’s song can be heard from nearly 10,000 miles away.

8. Today, the formations of Capitol Reef, Utah, create a barrier for travel. Sediment mushrooms in petrified waves. Waterpocket Fold tilts the small heads toward the ever-growing sun, the dynamite scorch-marks almost invisible from the platform.

9. We loop, loop, loop the Badlands. Is it all the same ocean? I say it is, out loud, so the tourists lose their footing. I toss it out the window, bringing new friends for these fossils.

10. At night, the rocks glow. Uranium, yellow pollen, fossil dust, virgin sun. All the once-children of the ocean orbit the seascape.

[musicrunsthroughmysoul]

I'm so glad that I follow Kinsale Drake (Diné) on IG because I just found out that her poem dedicated to Buffy Sainte-Marie (!!!!!!!) is on poets.org!

[olowan-waphiya]

https://ictnews.org/news/big-pink-truck-delivers-books-love-of-native-literature

https://ictnews.org/news/big-pink-truck-delivers-books-love-of-native-literature

The truck is from the founders of the NDN Book Club, Kinsale Drake, Navajo, and Pte San Win Little Whiteman, Oglala Lakota. The club truck hit the road April 1-5. In addition to distributing books, the team handed out product donations curated by sponsor Amy Denet Deal from 4KINSHIP, a Navajo brand that uses runway fashion to fund social good projects on Navajo Nation like the Yilta Book Drop.

NDN Book Club is a nonprofit, literary organization run by and for Indigenous peoples that hosts free youth workshops, author talks, uplifts Indigenous literature, supports Indigenous booksellers, and sends out free Native books. They are supported by Native actress Amber Midthunder (“Prey”) and model activist Quannah Chasinghorse.

In 2023, they distributed more than 2,000 free books by Indigenous authors to Native youth across Turtle Island, supplied by diverse Indigenous booksellers, publishers and authors. From Muckleshoot in Washington to Piscataway lands in the Northeast, they lead workshops in classrooms, tribal libraries, tribal colleges, book festivals and museums.

[filmnoirsbian]

Things Read in March

Essays & Articles:

Reader Discretion Advised: On profanity and the sublime in poetry

Bizarre Movie Monsters: Skinamarink

Penelope and the Poetics of Remembering

Two Bad Mormons

Was Caroline Ellison a Main Character or the Fall Girl? How the 28-year-old CEO LARP-ed her way into the collapse of FTX

The 'real Lord of the Flies': a survivor's story of shipwreck and salvation

The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months

The Legacy of Hoodoo Within the Black Church

'Hellraiser' writer Clive Barker on the publishing industry's homophobia and J.K. Rowling

'Ma' Reconsidered

Exposed: Dallas Humber, Narrator Of Neo-Nazi ‘Terrorgram,’ Promoter Of Mass Shootings

Black Horror Films Found Off the Beaten Path

'The Help' Spawns A Lawsuit And A Question: How Much Borrowing Is Fair?

Pentagon Blocks Sharing Evidence of Possible Russian War Crimes With Hague Court

How Wasps Are Less Bothersome—And More Beautiful—Than We Think

Researchers Pinpoint Important Biomarker for SIDS

15 Years After Invasion of Iraq, Amnesia & Distortion Obscure U.S. Record of War Crimes & Torture

The rabid sexualisation of male actors is getting creepy

Calvinism and the American Conception of Evil

The Schedule of Loss

Poetry:

Fuck Stuck by Naomi Morris

The Artist by Jenny George

Jenner, CA by Jay Deshpande

[11. Violence: Anglo-Linguistic] by Nam Le

Blue by Laura Villareal

T Shot #9: Ode to My Sharps Container by KB Brookins

The Bag of Skunk and the Ghetto Bank by Yahya Hassan translated by Jordan Barger

Fable of the Barn by Ann Lauterbach

"Envoi" of William H. Johnson's "Nude" by Terrance Hayes

Ancestors' wildest dreams by Kinsale Drake

Short Stories & Books:

In The Deep Woods; The Light is Different There by Seanan McGuire

Bones & All by Camille DeAngelis

Stardust by Neil Gaiman

DCeased

Know My Name by Chanel Miller

The Princess Bride by William Goldman

[meret118]

Drake is a fresh Yale graduate and founder of the NDN Girls Book Club, which emerged from an idea she had as a teen. She was drawn to Yale for its Indigenous Performing Arts Program, but she felt lost outside this particular campus community, as the only Native student in the English department at the time.

[thecaduceusclay]

While it's Native American Heritage Month I wanna plug Birchbark Books really quick. They're an independent bookstore (fuck amazon) that's native owned. (The owner Louise Erdrich is actually an author too!)

They honestly have a really good collection of indigenous books, audiobooks, and card games available. You can go in person if you're around Minneapolis, but you can also buy online. I'd seriously recommend checking them out, they have everything from kids books to horror to queer books to educational books.

If you're looking for a place to start I have some recommendations!

We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom (children's picture book)

My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones (horror/slasher)

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer (nonfiction - about plants and nature)

Sovereign Erotics by Qwo-Li Driskill et al. (nonfiction - two spirit people)

Into The Bright Open by Cherie Dimaline (a remix of the Secret Garden)

Hummingbird Heart by Kinsale Drake (queer zine)

Fire Keeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley (YA thriller)

[spookykestrel]

24!

hiiii tyyyyy <33333333

24. Ancestors' wildest dreams by Kinsale Drake

ahhh i love poems about humanitye— i love the use of language and human experiences and the structuring so much and the ties back to ancestry and heritage. not many coherent thoughts rn but very good beautoful poem. plus the author seems very cool too

[native-blog-deutsch]

Geschichtenerzählen durch Kunst und Worte

Indian Country Today's daily newscast

In der Wochenendausgabe des ICT Newscast spricht der Künstler John Isaiah Pepion über seine Ledger Art. Die Dichterin und Gründerin des NDN Girls Book Club, Kinsale Drake, kommt für eine exklusive Lesung zu uns ins Studio. Und zum 50. Jahrestag des Hip-Hop sprechen indigene Musikschaffende über die nächsten 50 Jahre.  

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what i read in march 2023

poetry

to march - emily dickinson

willow - anna akmatova (trans. jennifer reeser)

i grant you ample leave - george eliot

worm moon - mary oliver

deer on the side of an american highway - devin kelly

reading - a.r ammons

the lady’s yes - elizabeth barret browning

“south of the north, yet north of south, lies the city of a hundred hills” - aaron coleman

the honest tongue - laura da!

why did it - william j harris

thursday - james longenbach

hello - naomi shihab nye

[like a white stone] - anna akhmatova (trans. babette deutsch, avrahm yarmolinsky)

the horse fell off the poem - mahmoud darwish (trans. fady joudah)

a lesson from my father about electricity - monica rico

abell 2218 - eric gamalinda

molly brodak - molly brodak

ancestors wildest dreams - kinsale drake

books

closer baby closer - savannah brown (poetry collection)

i must be living twice - eileen myself (poetry collection, p1-51)

detransition baby - torrey peters

university readings

‘chapter 3: michel foucault: society must be defended’ in portraits of violence, evans and wilson, 2016 (modernism and after)

‘pregnancy: reproductive futures in trans of colour feminism’, micha cárdenas, 2016 (intro to queer studies)

‘the transfeminist manifesto’, in catching a wave: reclaiming feminism for the 21st century, 2003 (intro to queer studies)

‘academy as potentiality’, in A.C.A.D.E.M.Y revolver, irit rogoff, 2006 (intro to queer studies)

chapters 1-2 of ‘borderlands/la frontera’, gloria anzaldúa, 1987 (intro to queer studies)

‘queer intersections: sexuality and gender in migration studies’ in the international migration review vol 40, martin f. manalansan, 2006 (intro to queer studies)

‘deconstructing the filmmakers gaze: an interview with celine sciamma’, cineaste vol 45, garcia, m (intro to queer studies)

‘visual pleasurea and narrative cinema’, laura mulvey (intro to queer studies)

substack

paging dr. lesbian: does the female gaze exist

patti smith: reading a poets poem

perfectly imperfect newsletter: #290 morgan maher

tv dinner: queer advice #55 really serious really quickly

the sushi shop: an ode to bad television and its brightest stars

maybe baby: #138 do you pass the turing test

maybe baby: #140 the art of pandering

cup of stars (carmen maria machado): dear kitty

articles

‘loneliness and me’, claire bushey, financial times, 2020

‘the reading summer: fragments on loneliness’, eve lio, medium, 2021

‘the state of UK prisons and the urgent need for reform’, callum clark, 2022

‘our prisons are a manifest failure. would that be tolerated in any other public system?’, kathleen maltzahn, the guardian, 2019

‘prison art, a dark place where the muse never leaves’, jillian steinhauer, the new york times, 2019

‘why pop art was the first queer art movement’, andy stewart mackay anothermag, 2020

[largethingslargerthings]

Meditative Week of Poetry: Kinsale Drake

Last night we fought again in my dreams. It’s funny how when we do this, our small step-dance, you only speak in Navajo and I understand. This time, it was the egg-blue kettle or tóshchíín pot left on the stove too long, bottom roasted black. Or my favorite dog you’d kicked at, maybe a bit too hard, like the time you swung to save the last chicken and your water broke and my father cried out from the window. You never said I love you after we fought like this. But in my dreams, we cry at the table afterwards, and it is almost like drowning together until I wake up gasping, my mouth wet with tears, thinking the sound of the kitchen door opening is you, running from the table to the dog closing its heavy jaws on the rooster, yelling hágo, shhh! come here, come here.

[poetryfoundation-potd]

Ancestors’ wildest dreams

By Kinsale Drake

r drunk on the sticky floor

of a Denny’s texting gma Ayóó anííníshní;

& crying in the same hot breath abt

not knowing the right word for apology

if one exists keyboard smashing

resilience resilience reslienceResielance

as we delete IG so we don’t

have to see ppl out-sacred-ing

each other Maybe we’re only sovereign

in bed sometimes drowning

in the dark and in the soft pools

of their eyes, living off the hard tack

of their thighs moving to an MCR mixtape

We froth Ancestors’ sleep-paralysis

demon caught in cold sweat and skipped

therapy untangling our bodies

from sheets always untangling

hair out from under somewhere

Fractals left in corners, under juniper

berry branches Do we even remember

how gma baked her pies? The cornstalks

stretched higher than Holy People

that yr ... & we came home buzzed

on lemonade & an auntie’s laughter ... 

Everyone is always talking about

an ancestor that is or isn’t

pleased

BUT—

I saw a strawberry moon tonight rising ... 

I learned the word in my language for laugh ...

We found it together:

Dloh dloh dloh dloh

We eat it

We setting-spray it to the page

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/159620/ancestors-wildest-dreams

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[cloudapts]

( ☁️ )     anon asked . . .  mwf poc?

if  i  could  see  coco  jones ,  pasabist ,  normani ,  tinashe ,  chloe bailey ,  maia cotton ,  megan  thee  stallion ,  barbie   ferreira ,  erica  ransfield ,  lizzo ,  melemaikalani  makalapua ,  yumi  nu ,  kinsale  drake ,  dasilvadakid  or  jennie  kim  on  the  dash ,  i  would  be  very  pleased !!