I shrank my life to a box so often it became normal. So, when I saw how the University of North Dakota hid entire boxes of artifacts, a small, strange part of me no longer felt aloneRead more

When you meet the other version of yourself standing across from you someday, you will know, immediately, all the ways in which you will tutor her in a sudden crash-course.Read more

How do you explain that after so much time spent wanting, youve numbed yourself against constant rejection? That my indigeneity shouldve never been dangled like a carrot on a stick?Read more

If youre surrounded by fire, do you know where to go? Read more

How do you tell someone oh, its not that your mom threatened to stab me, did you know the state is going up in flames?Read more

In one moment, wed gone from a maze of Zoom grids fiddling with mute buttons and spotty Wi-Fi, to feeling the same Santa Fe breeze togetherRead more

They saw your curlicue tail, ever-wispy and bouncing with each trot, and laughed. Your chihuahuas will never make it with those dogs runnin roundRead more

In the crushing quiet of a campus under quarantine, Id been starving for sound all along

Because I’d been so busy recounting all that went wrong, I didn’t realize we were in their midst until we were submerged at their core, waiting for them to be seen…

“She and I were bookends, shelving one another’s histories into place so the other wouldn’t fall…”