Poetry

cowboys like us

Leah Baptiste -
we duet picture — i’m sheryl crow she’s kid rock
Poetry

on the old tracks in fresh snow

Meghan Eaker -
it started to snow in the afternoon. you said, “see you later,” when you left.

cowboys like us

we duet picture — i’m sheryl crow she’s kid rock
Poetry Leah Baptiste -

on the old tracks in fresh snow

it started to snow in the afternoon. you said, “see you later,” when you left.
Poetry Meghan Eaker -

Untitled

I gnaw at my hands in grief
Poetry Arielle Twist -

The Stonewailers

Stone sat facing the setting sun, its red glare stained across his temples, oxidized, aging him into a premature elderhood
Fiction Joshua Whitehead -

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oteh nîkân

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oteh nîkân is a digital magazine that aspires to make the publishing world more accessible to LGBTQ2S+ Indigenous writers in North America as well as to build on an already-burgeoning body of LGBTQ2S+ Indigenous writing. It was founded by Billy-Ray Belcourt in 2023 and is funded by the Canada Research Chair in Queer Indigenous Cultural Production, which he holds in the School of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia, on xʷməθkʷəy̓əm Territory.