Me Sexy (eBook)

Drew Hayden Taylor is an Ojibway from Ontario's Curve Lake Reserve. He currently lives in Toronto. Taylor is widely known for his thoughtful and sharply witty observations on aboriginal issues. One of Canada's leading playwrights, he has received some of the country's most prestigious drama awards for his work, which includes Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth and the three-part series The Bootlegger Blues, The Baby Blues and The Buz'Gem Blues. Hayden Taylor also writes for the screen, and his National Film Board of Canada documentary on Aboriginal humour, Redskins, Tricksters and Puppy Stew, has been shown all across North America.Taylor has given lectures on several continents about Native humour. In 2004 he emceed and performed at an event on the subject at Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., to celebrate the opening of the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian. His trenchant opinions on identity politics and the hilarious absurdities that are often the lot of a "blue-eyed Ojibway" are collected in book form in the Funny, You Don't Look Like One series.Lee Maracle, Sto:Loh nation, grandmother of four, mother of four, was born in North Vancouver, B. C. and now resides in Innisfil, Ontario. An award-winning author and teacher, her works include: the novels Ravensong, Bobbi Lee, and Sundogs; the short story collection Sojourner's Truth; the poetry collection Bentbox; and the non-fiction work I Am Woman. She has co-edited My Home As I Remember and Telling It: Woment And Language Across Cultures, and edited a number of poetry works and Gatherings journals and published in dozens of anthologies in Canada and America. Currently she is Mentor for Aboriginal Students at the University of Toronto, where she is also a teacher, and the Traditional Cultural Director for the Indigenous Theatre School, where she is a part-time cultural instructor.Makka Kleist has worked with theatre the last 27 years as an actor, director, playwright and and teacher in Denmark (where she got her education as an actor), Canada, Norway and Greenland. She is now back in her native country Greenland, freelancing and working with all aspects of theatre.Joseph Boyden is a proud member of the Métis Nation. He is one of eleven children. His first novel, Three Day Road, won McNally Robinson's Aboriginal Book of the Year Award, the Rogers Writers' Trust Prize, the Canadian Author's Association Novel of the Year Award and the CBA Libris Fiction Book of the Year award and was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for Fiction. It has been published in ten languages; a Cree translation, the first ever for a novel, is currently underway.Daniel Heath Justice (Cherokee Nation) teaches Aboriginal literatures and Aboriginal Studies at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Our Fire Survives the Storm: A Cherokee Literary History (University of Minnesota Press), as well as Kynship, the first volume of an Indigenous fantasy trilogy published by Kegedonce Press.Michelle McGeough is a member of the Metis Nation of Alberta. Having completed an Secondary Education degree from the University of Alberta, an Associates of Fine Arts degree from the Institute of American Indian Art in Santa Fe as well as a diploma and BFA in media studies from Vancouver's Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. She recently received her Masters Degree in Art History from Ottawa's Carleton University. Michelle currently lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico and is the Assistant Curator of the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian.Dr. Norman Vorano is the Curator of Contemporary Inuit Art at the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Ottawa. A graduate of the University of Rochester's Program in Visual and Cultural Studies, his dissertation-'Inuit Art in a Qallunaat World: Museums, Modernism and the Public Imaginary, 1949-1962'-examines the promotion, reception and development of Inuit in North America and Europe. His research interests cover a range of topics in visual culture and art history; he is currently researching contemporary artists from Cape Dorset.Tomson Highway is the proud son of legendary caribou hunter and world-championship dogsled racer Joe Highway. Born in a tent pitched in a snowbank, he comes from the extreme northwest corner of Manitoba, where the province meets Saskatchewan and Nunavut. Today, he writes plays, novels and music for a living. Among his best-known works are the plays The Rez Sisters and Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing and the best-selling novel Kiss of the Fur Queen.Marissa Crazytrain (not her real name) is of plains Cree/Saulteaux decent: her great-great grandmother, migrated across the border with Chief Sitting Bull to escape annihilation by the U.S army, and settled in Saskatchewan. "Marissa" no longer dances, but waits tables for a more "honest" living. She has turn her experiences of living in Toronto into a one-woman show that premiered at the Saskatoon Fringe Festival.Gregory Scofield is a Metis poet, non-fiction writer, activist and community worker whose maternal ancestry can be traced back five generations to the Red River Settlement and Kinosota, Manitoba. He was born in Maple Ridge, BC and spent his younger childhood in northern Manitoba, Saskatchewan and the Yukon. He has published five highly praised books of poetry and a memoir, and has received such awards as the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, the BC Book Award, The Canadian Author's Association Most Promising Young Writer Award, and the Confederation of Poets Prize. He lives in Calgary where he teaches at the Alberta College of Art & Design.Marius P. Tungilik served as Deputy Minister and Regional Director for the Government of the Northwest Territories' Departments of Personnel, Executive and Renewable Resources, and later with the federal public service and the Nunavut Government. He has served on several boards including the Nunavut Arbitration Board, Nunavut Wildlife Management Board, Inuit Non-Profit Housing Corporation, Safe Shelter, Crisis Line and the Mobile Treatment Program in Nunavut. He lives in Refuse Bay, Nunavut.Kateri Akiwenzied-Damm (to come)Nancy Cooper is from the Chippewas of Mnjikaning First Nation. Her work as been published in various anthologies and magazines and she is currently editing an anthology of indigenous women writing about their fathers and grandfathers. Not one to give up her day job, Nancy works as an adult educator in between bouts of creativity. She lives in Toronto.

The Night Was Dark and so was He/She by Drew Hayden TaylorDances-For-Dollars by Marissa CrazytrainInuit Pre-Christian Sexuality by Makka KleistWhy Cree is the Sexiest of all Languages by Tomson HighwayThe First Wives Club, Salish Style by Lee MaracleFear of A Changling Moon: A Rather Queer Tale of a Cherokee Hillbilly by Daniel Heath JusticeBush Country by Joseph BoydenNorval Morrisseau and the Erotic by Michelle McGoughInuit Men, Erotic Art: "Certain IndecenciesThat Need Not Here Be Mentioned" by Norman VoranoYou Can Always Count On An Anthropologist by Gregory ScofieldRed Hot to the Touch: Writing Indigenous Erotica by Kateri Akiwenzie-DammThe Dark Side of Sex by Marius P. TungilikLearning to Skin the Beaver-In Search of our Aunties' Traplines by Nancy Cooper