![]() I hope my book can begin to dispel some dominant anxieties about theory and push us to think about theory as an embodied practice itself, as a lived experience, and that embedded in all our social and political choices is a theory of living. No, I don’t, because I think a theory of the body is a theory of freedom – and freedom is one of our most communal desires. Some might consider body and theory as opposites. ![]() I’m always interested in moving beyond a single-issue focus on race toward an intersectional focus on the complex web of identities and bodies that make up the Native world. Opening up that discourse to those concepts is to make space for those who occupy multiple intersecting categories of identity. To talk about the body is to talk about gender, sexuality and sex. Why is that so important to your writing?īecause it has been left out of the political and legal discourse about Native life. Your work draws attention to the significance of the body. It tells the story of a young queer Indigenous man yearning for utopia amid a broken world. His new book, A History of My Brief Body, is a memoir pairing life and theory in a style reminiscent of Maggie Nelson. ![]() His first collection, This Wound is a World, won the 2018 Griffin Poetry Prize, which he followed up with 2019′s NDN Coping Mechanisms. Log In Create Free Accountīilly-Ray Belcourt is a poet and scholar from the Driftpile Cree Nation. ![]()
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