NDN POETRY

baqwuds. on blackface & internalized misogynoir. transcript below.

Top left photo courtesy Lee Towndrow/Little, Brown and Company

On his first day in the seventh grade, Sherman Alexie opened up his school-assigned math book and found his mother’s maiden name written in it. “I was looking at a 30-year-old math book,” he says — and that was the moment he knew that he needed to leave his home.

Alexie grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation in the state of Washington. His mother was one of the few people who could still speak the native language, but she didn’t teach it to him. In his new memoir, You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me, he describes growing up surrounded by poverty, alcoholism and violence.

Check out his conversation with Fresh Air’s Terry Gross here.

𝘘𝘶𝘪𝘤𝘬 𝘈𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘔𝘦

👼🏽 I’m a black & native two-spirit 2nd generation spiritual practitioner

👼🏽 I’m a claircognizant & I’ve been working with tarot for ~6 years. here’s a page with some reviews and here’s a post with feedback from some of my most recent ones (please read those so I can keep the flexing to a minimum on this post 😌).

𝘗𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘨

🍓 $11.11 for 3 cards; readings will be 2 paragraphs minimum

🍓 $14.44 for 5 cards; includes the 3 card reading with full “bottom of the deck energy” interpretation + a card from a 2nd deck for 2nd perspective insight

🍓 $22.22 for 8 cards; includes full 3 card readings from 2 decks, bottom of the deck interpretations for both, and 1 yes/no pendulum question

🍓 $33.33; you’re guaranteed 12 cards minimum (full 3 cards + bottom of the deck interpretations from 3 decks) and 1 yes/no pendulum question. Past that, I prefer not to put hard parameters on bigger readings because the full benefits will vary from querent to querent due to the nature of my gift, the nature of tarot, & your needs. It can (key word) involve extra card pulls, extra pendulum questions, 1 on 1 real-time “talks” that could be described as intuitive readings*, etc. Come and find out :•)

𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘦

🌟 I’m happy to explain any terminology to anyone looking for a reading :•) but “querent” does just mean “person being read for” lol

🌟 I’ll always be fair. If you pay me for something I can’t complete, you will get your money back.

🌟 divination is not just time consuming but mentally & even physically taxing for me, I reserve the right to put limitations on myself/readings as needed. $33.33 readings included. I will cap card pulls & pendulum use when necessary, but rest assured that I commit to giving you ALL the messages given to me & intended for you.

One time for the relentless hope, for the naivety, for old time’s sake

One time because that’s how i remember you; just one more, a last ditch effort, the empty spaces between my fingers, oh the empty spaces

One time for the one time, let me back on the bench, back around your finger, wrapped around and wound up over you

One time because we were always silly like that for each other, because we don’t learn, because i still love you