Join us for a special reading with award-winning author Joshua Whitehead.

Joshua Whitehead is a Two-Spirit, Oji-Cree member of Peguis First Nation (Treaty 1). He is the author of full-metal indigiqueer (Talonbooks 2017), Jonny Appleseed (Arsenal Pulp 2018), the forthcoming Making Love with the Land (Knopf 2022), and is the editor of Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction. Currently, Whitehead is an AssistanT Professor at the University of Calgary where he is housed in both the English and International Indigenous Studies Departments.

This event is part of the collaboratively organized Honouring Indigenous Writers on Wikipedia event, co-organized with UBC Vancouver and UBC Okanagan, which seeks to improve the coverage of Indigenous writers on Wikipedia and to encourage diverse community editors to actively work to dissuade assumptions about Indigenous literature by raising their profile in this influential information source. This year features a schedule of author readings and workshops throughout the month of March, as well as asynchronous Wikipedia editing challenges designed to be doable online whenever you have time.

Photo by Tenille Campbell

This event is part of the Honouring Indigenous Writers series, which seeks to increase awareness of Indigenous authors.  This year we have put together a schedule of author readings and workshops throughout the month of March, as well as asynchronous Wikipedia increase awareness of Indigenous literature, and improve the coverage of Indigenous writers on Wikipedia.

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