Love After the End
Two-Spirit Utopias & Dystopias
- Publisher
- Bedside Press
- Initial publish date
- Mar 2020
- Category
- LGBT, Aboriginal & Indigenous
- Recommended Age
- 16 to 18
- Recommended Grade
- 11 to 12
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781988715247
- Publish Date
- Mar 2020
- List Price
- $17
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Description
What are the adventures that lie beyond the end of our world? In a perfect world, how do we grow? In an imperfect world, how do we resist?
In this collection of stories, we showcase a variety of stories by Indigenous authors imagining different possible futures of our world, told through the lens of the 2SQ (Two-Spirit & queer) heroes in the lead roles.
You can expect stories of morally ambigious cyborg rats, civilizations overtaken by the promise of perfect virtual reality, tips for surviving the apocalypse, and survival after the end of the world.
About the authors
Joshua Whitehead is an Oji-Cree/nehiyaw, Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer member of Peguis First Nation (Treaty 1). He is the author of the bestselling novel Jonny Appleseed (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2018), longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award, and winner of Canada Reads; and the poetry collection full-metal indigiqueer (Talonbooks, 2017), which was the winner of the Governor General's History Award for the Indigenous Arts and Stories Challenge in 2016. He is also the editor of Love after the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2020). His next book is a work of creative non-fiction entitled Making Love with the Land that details mental health, queerness, and Indigeneity and is forthcoming with Knopf Canada.
Joshua Whitehead's profile page
Alice RL (they/them) is a professional illustrator and art teacher based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. As a non-binary, Ojibwe artist, Alice draws inspiration from their life experiences and cultural teachings. Alice blends these inspirations with a signature palette of bright, playful hues to create stunning juxtapositions of human brutality and emotion with hope and whimsy. Alice’s range of projects includes video game and comic book art, digital and traditional illustration, and graphic design. Alice is a graduate of the University of Manitoba Fine Arts Program and Digital Media Design at Red River College.
David A Robertson is a graphic novelist and writer who has long been an advocate for educating youth on indigenous history and contemporary issues. As a speaker, David has taken his message about social change across Canada. He has created several graphic novels, including his newest series, Tales From Big Spirit, as well as the bestselling 7 Generations series. He was a contributor to the anthology Manitowapow: Aboriginal Writings from the Land of Water (2012) and is currently the co-creator and writer for the upcoming television series The Reckoner. His first novel, The Evolution of Alice, will be published in fall 2014. David lives in Winnipeg with his wife and four children, where he works in the field of indigenous education.
David Alexander Robertson's profile page
Darcie Little Badger is a Lipan Apache writer with a PhD in oceanography. Her critically acclaimed debut novel, Elatsoe, was featured in Time as one of the best 100 fantasy books of all time. Elatsoe also won the Locus Award for Best First Novel and is a Nebula, Ignyte, and Lodestar Finalist. Her second fantasy novel, A Snake Falls to Earth, received a Nebula Award, an Ignyte Award, and a Newbery Honor and is on the National Book Awards longlist. Darcie is married to a veterinarian named Taran.
Darcie Little Badger's profile page
Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler is the author ofGhost Lake (2020, Kegedonce Press), a collection of shorthorror and mystery fiction which won the 2021 Indigenous Voices Award and ofits companion volume, Wrist (2016, Kegedonce Press). He is co-editorof Bawaajigan – Stories ofPower, a dream-themed anthology of Indigenous writers (ExileEditions). He is an artist and filmmaker who works in a variety of mediumsincluding audio and video, and drawing and painting. Nathan is first-placewinner of an Aboriginal Writing Challenge, and recipient of a HnatyshynReveal award for literature, he has an MFA in Creative Writing (UBC), BFA inIntegrated Media (OCAD), and BA in English Literature and Native Studies(Trent). His writing is published in various magazines, blogs,and anthologies. He is two-spirit, Jewish, Anishinaabe, and member ofLac Des Mille Lacs First Nation. Originally from Ontario, he currently residesin Vancouver.
Adam Garnet Jones is a Cree/Métis filmmaker whose work includes over twenty short films that have been broadcast on television and the big screen. He is best known for telling compelling personal stories that come from the Aboriginal and Queer communities. Fire Song is an adaptation of Adam’s award-winning feature film debut.
Adam Garnet Jones' profile page
Kai Minosh Pyle's profile page
jaye simpson is a Two-Spirit Oji-Cree person of the Buffalo Clan with roots in Sapotaweyak and Skownan Cree Nation who often writes about being queer in the child welfare system, as well as being queer and Indigenous. simpson’s work has been performed at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word (2017) in Peterborough, and in Guelph with the Vancouver Slam Poetry 2018 Team. simpson has recently been named the Vancouver Champion for the Women of the World Poetry Slam and their work has been featured in Poetry Is Dead, This Magazine, PRISM international, SAD Mag, GUTS Magazine and Room. simpson resides on the unceded and ancestral territories of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), səlilwəta’Ɂɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) First Nations peoples, currently and colonially known as Vancouver, BC.
