A history of my brief body /
Belcourt, Billy-Ray,
A history of my brief body / Billy-Ray Belcourt. - Columbus : Two Dollar Radio, 2020. - 140 pages ; 20 cm
"An earlier version of 'Fatal Naming Rituals' was published in Hazlitt in 2018. 'Notes from an Archive of Injuries' was published in the Winter 2020 issue of Prairie Fire."--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-140).
Preface : a letter to Nôhkom -- Introduction : A short theoretical note -- An NDN boyhood -- A history of my brief body -- Futuromania -- Gay: 8 scenes -- Loneliness in the age of Grindr -- Fragments from a half-existence -- An alphabet of longing -- Robert -- Notes from an archive of injuries -- Please keep loving : reflections on unlivability -- Fatal naming rituals -- To hang our grief up to dry.
"Billy-Ray Belcourt's debut memoir opens with a tender letter to his kokum and memories of his early life in the hamlet of Joussard, Alberta, and on the Driftpile First Nation. Piece by piece, Billy-Ray's writings invite us to unpack and explore the big and broken world he inhabits every day, in all its complexity and contradiction: a legacy of colonial violence and the joy that flourishes in spite of it; first loves and first loves lost; sexual exploration and intimacy; the act of writing as a survival instinct and a way to grieve. What emerges is not only a profound meditation on memory, gender, anger, shame, and ecstasy, but also the outline of a way forward. With startling honesty, and in a voice distinctly and assuredly his own, Belcourt situates his life experiences within a constellation of seminal queer texts, among which this book is sure to earn its place. Eye-opening, intensely emotional, and excessively quotable, A History of My Brief Body demonstrates over and over again the power of words to both devastate and console us"--Amazon.
9781937512934
2020476160
020009048 Uk
Belcourt, Billy-Ray.
Belcourt, Billy-Ray--Childhood and youth.
Indians of North America--Canada--Biography.
Sexual minorities--Canada--Biography.
Gay men--Canada--Biography.
Cree gay men--Biography.
Racism--Canada.
Cree Indians--Biography.
LGBTQ indigenous people.
Essays.
Gays and lesbians.
Racism.
Sexual behavior.
Sexual minorities.
Cree Indians.
Essays.
Gays.
Racism.
Sex.
Driftpile Cree Nation.
Canada.
Canada.
Essays.
Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
Essays.
PR9199.4.B448 / Z46 2020
814/.6 897/.323
A history of my brief body / Billy-Ray Belcourt. - Columbus : Two Dollar Radio, 2020. - 140 pages ; 20 cm
"An earlier version of 'Fatal Naming Rituals' was published in Hazlitt in 2018. 'Notes from an Archive of Injuries' was published in the Winter 2020 issue of Prairie Fire."--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-140).
Preface : a letter to Nôhkom -- Introduction : A short theoretical note -- An NDN boyhood -- A history of my brief body -- Futuromania -- Gay: 8 scenes -- Loneliness in the age of Grindr -- Fragments from a half-existence -- An alphabet of longing -- Robert -- Notes from an archive of injuries -- Please keep loving : reflections on unlivability -- Fatal naming rituals -- To hang our grief up to dry.
"Billy-Ray Belcourt's debut memoir opens with a tender letter to his kokum and memories of his early life in the hamlet of Joussard, Alberta, and on the Driftpile First Nation. Piece by piece, Billy-Ray's writings invite us to unpack and explore the big and broken world he inhabits every day, in all its complexity and contradiction: a legacy of colonial violence and the joy that flourishes in spite of it; first loves and first loves lost; sexual exploration and intimacy; the act of writing as a survival instinct and a way to grieve. What emerges is not only a profound meditation on memory, gender, anger, shame, and ecstasy, but also the outline of a way forward. With startling honesty, and in a voice distinctly and assuredly his own, Belcourt situates his life experiences within a constellation of seminal queer texts, among which this book is sure to earn its place. Eye-opening, intensely emotional, and excessively quotable, A History of My Brief Body demonstrates over and over again the power of words to both devastate and console us"--Amazon.
9781937512934
2020476160
020009048 Uk
Belcourt, Billy-Ray.
Belcourt, Billy-Ray--Childhood and youth.
Indians of North America--Canada--Biography.
Sexual minorities--Canada--Biography.
Gay men--Canada--Biography.
Cree gay men--Biography.
Racism--Canada.
Cree Indians--Biography.
LGBTQ indigenous people.
Essays.
Gays and lesbians.
Racism.
Sexual behavior.
Sexual minorities.
Cree Indians.
Essays.
Gays.
Racism.
Sex.
Driftpile Cree Nation.
Canada.
Canada.
Essays.
Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
Essays.
PR9199.4.B448 / Z46 2020
814/.6 897/.323