# Elissa Washuta

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43. Braiding Sweetgrass.

[Nanabozho] walked the land, handing out names to all he met, an Anishinaabe Linnaeus. I like to think of the two of them walking together. Linnaeus the Swedish botanist and zoologist, in his loden jacket and woolen trousers, with felt hat cocked back on his forehead and a vasculum under his arm,…

A Scholar Who Loves Country Music

We're setting up Sarah Dees, a professor of religious history and cultures who has researched and published widely on appropriation of Native American medicine and art. She also is deeply interested, personally and academically, in Dolly Parton. She is late to watching Ted Lasso but is super into i…

Kenzie Allen : Cloud Missives

Today’s conversation with Kenzie Allen, about her debut poetry collection Cloud Missives, is unusually wide-ranging. We look at the influence of archaeology, anthropology and cartography on her poetry, and on her notion of gaze within her work. We explore the fraught colonial history of these field…

73. Dancing on Our Turtle’s Back.

Storytelling is an emergent practice, and meaning for each individual listener will necessarily be different. The relationships between the storyteller and the listeners become the nest that cradles the meaning. The storyteller creates both the context and the content and collectively a plurality…

74. Shapes of Native Nonfiction.

We conceive of the essay as an exquisite vessel, one that evidences the delicate balance of beauty and pain. The ‘exquisite’ character of this vessel invokes simultaneously an exquisite work of art and the exquisite ache of an intense sensation. By bringing to the fore a focus on form, in both th…

Graywolf Lab - Nobody Loses (Games)

Yuka Igarashi, editor at Graywolf Press, hosts this conversation with writers, scholars, and artists Stephanie Burt, Tracy O'Neill, Michael Salu, and Elissa Washuta all of whom are writing and thinking about games in various ways.

Essay #104: Theresa Warburton, ‘Other Worlds Here: Embracing Story as Place-Based Practice in Anarchist Social Movements’

In this essay, Theresa Warburton talks about the power of story for building a place-based method in anarchist organizing. Building on their own experiences and the works of Indigenous scholars, Warburton asks how anarchists can make space for the past, present, and future in the work we do togethe…

From the Archives : Jake Skeets : Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers

Today’s episode is a classic from the archives, a conversation from 2019 with current Navajo Nation Poet Laureate Jake Skeets about his debut poetry collection Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers. Winner of the Whiting Award in poetry and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, there is no better t…

Episode 20: Lynette D'Amico

On episode 20 of the QT Nonfiction Podcast, I chat with Lynette D'Amico about a variety of topics such as: passport gender markers, the role of the trans person’s partner during transition, examining self-assigned labels during moments of major life change, embracing an “off-putting” title, resisti…