{"title":"Joshua Whitehead","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJoshua Whitehead\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a bold and innovative voice in contemporary Arts \u0026amp; Culture, weaving together themes of identity, indigeneity, and queerness with striking poetic and narrative style. Their work challenges conventions and invites readers into profound explorations of selfhood and community.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eExpect a blend of raw emotional depth and linguistic playfulness, as seen in works like \u003cem\u003efull-metal indigiqueer: the pro(1,0)zoa\u003c\/em\u003e. Whitehead’s writing is both a celebration and a critique, illuminating the complexities of modern indigenous experience through fresh, boundary-pushing literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"full-metal-indigiqueer-the-pro10zoa-by-joshua-whitehead-9781772011876","title":"full-metal indigiqueer: the pro(1,0)zoa","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis poetry collection focuses on a hybridized Indigiqueer Trickster character named Zoa, who brings together the organic (the protozoan) and the technologic (the binaric) to re-beautify and re-member queer Indigeneity. This Trickster is a Two-Spirit \/ Indigiqueer invention that resurges in the apocalypse to haunt, atrophy, and reclaim.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFollowing oral tradition (à la Iktomi, Nanaboozho, Wovoka), Zoa infects, invades, and becomes a virus to canonical and popular works in order to re-centre Two-Spirit livelihoods. They dazzlingly and fiercely take on the likes of Edmund Spenser, Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, and John Milton while also not forgetting contemporary pop culture figures such as Lana Del Rey, Grindr, and Peter Pan. Zoa world-builds a fourth-dimension, lives in cyberspace, and survives in NDN-time—they have learned to sing the skin back onto their bodies and remain \u003cem\u003e#woke\u003c\/em\u003e at the end of the world. \"Do not read me as a vanished NDN,\" they ask, \"read me as a ghastly one.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFull-metal indigiqueer\u003c\/em\u003e is influenced by the works of Jordan Abel, Tanya Tagaq, Daniel Heath Justice, Claudia Rankine, Vivek Shraya, Qwo-Li Driskill, Leanne Simpson, Kent Monkman, and Donna Haraway. It is a project of resurgence for Two-Spirit \/ Indigiqueer folk who have been ghosted in policy, page, tradition, and history—the very lives of Two-Spirit \/ Indigiqueer youth are rarely mentioned (and even dispossessed in our very mandates for reconciliation), our lives are precarious, but they too are precious.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe find ourselves made spectral in settler and neocolonial Indigenous nationalisms—if reconciliation is a means of \"burying the hatchet,\" Zoa seeks to unearth the bones buried with those hatched scalps and perform a séance to ghost dance Indigiqueerness into existence. Zoa world-destroys in order to world-build a new space—they care little for reconciliation but rather aim to reterritorialize space in literature, pop culture, and oral storytelling.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis project follows in the tradition of the aforementioned authors who, Whitehead believes, utilise deconstruction as a means of decolonisation. This is a sex-positive project that tirelessly works to create a coalition between those who have, as Haraway once noted, \"been injured, profoundly.\" Zoa stands in solidarity with all QPOC folk who exist as ghosts with intergenerational and colonial phantom pains—they sing with Donna Summer, RuPaul, Effie White, and Trixie Mattel. The space made is a post-apocalyptic hub of sex and decolonisation—a world where making love is akin to making live.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47463047233772,"sku":"9781772011876","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781772011876-full-metal-indigiqueer-the-pro-1-0-zoa.jpg?v=1775027238"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/joshua-whitehead.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}