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Little Mountain Woman

@TereseMarieM

4 years

When I'm teaching students how to write about trauma, I often ask them to carry five other stories about themselves for protection. Like a verbal medicine bundle: there's what happened to you, how you survived, and carry some other stories, like:

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if we're learned anything from Native genocide it's that some genocide receives no memorial, no walls with names - they simply build shit over our bodies - remember they found a grave full of children.

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2 years

I want to share a writing exercise for writers who can't afford a class:

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4 years

How you learned to gut a fish, or how you used to bind your own books as a child, the time you stood up for yourself at work, occasions where you felt joy. Carry many stories about yourself, ... give yourself dynamism and let that dynamism inform your work.

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We're more than what happened to us, but it's also okay if you just need to sit in the pain and execute how awful it felt. I support all victim and survivor stories, any way you tell it. Holding five other stories is mostly a safety measure to not feel like I'm only one thing.

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@TereseMarieM

3 months

Canada is very racist. Very Colonial. Very bad to Native women and Two Spirit people, and our men. The whole place is awful. They have an Indian Act btw. Look it up and realize it's a colonial state designed to harm Indigenous people. All of us.

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Absolutely everyone should be concerned by this. No matter where you stand on this, the @VancouverPD should be partisan. As head of police board @KenSimCity should address this #vanpoli

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@TereseMarieM

6 years

I'm often asked how I can talk about trauma and abuse. I tell every reader, every bright student, that the shame doesn't belong to me. I'm not ashamed. The people who hurt me, that's their shame to carry, not mine. Abusers want us to carry shame and think it's our fault. No.

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2 years

Joyce Carol Oates shouldn't have written Blonde. What could a literary non-hottie know about the exploitation of femme, highly sexualized women - women who look and act like Oates have no compassion or love for women like Marilyn. They're just as bad as men at writing them.

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@TereseMarieM

6 years

Natives know all about civility. We were killed for our supposed savagery, and taken from our families to become more civil. We resist civility. We know it's a lie. We know who the real savages are.

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@TereseMarieM

5 years

I Marie Kondo'd my enemies and now I have not seen/cared about what they've been up to for like months and it feels real good. I'm like, "I don't know her." It's transcendent.

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@TereseMarieM

1 year

The messed up thing about James Cameron speaking so callously about Lakota is that he's talking to genocide survivors. It takes amazing resilience and fight to have survived genocide and retained culture, language, and identity when society still tries to erase us.

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4 years

in my nonfiction class this semester we'll be writing one essay about the worst thing about ourselves, and we won't redeem it, but we will also need the reader to fall in love. I can't wait.

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@TereseMarieM

3 months

The people from my band who manage the land said they're going to be planting less Cedar because they're not sure Cedar will survive the next 50 years due to drought. Our culture is Cedar based. Imagine a Pacific Northwest without Cedar, without the forest.

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1 year

Trevor Noah gave me such a huge break in my career and read the book very closely - and when I was scared the interview would talk about something too controversial for me, he said, don't worry it's about you - I won't ask about any of that. He also is very tall and smells rich.

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@TereseMarieM

5 years

I won a big writer's award ☺. I don't believe there's only room for one Native writer at a time. I believe we can write about trauma & protect each other. We don't need another Native renaissance. We need us to be forever present, reviewed for our craft, our work, period. ❤💙

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1 year

I love stories about parenting before colonization - my aunties used to take me for trips during the summer, to give my mother a break - it was only shameful from a white perspective, pre-colonization, a community helped raise a child and it was joyous, not burdensome or hard.

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Native babies who died in residential school. A whole pile of our children's bones. There is no memorial for us and people like us - they're just going to build things over our bodies and that's colonization - it's happening in Palestine.

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4 years

When you're writing nonfiction and you bring up your ex, or your parent long gone, or somebody who's left, it's like conjuring. Say the thing unsaid or the thing you're scared to say. No point in bringing a ghost in the room unless you can confront it.

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4 years

MY BOOK "Heart Berries" is the January pick for Now Read This, a book club from PBS NewsHour and The New York Times! I've been celebrating by giving myself time to write every day for the next book! I'm so happy! So thrilled. 🍓🍓👀❤️!!

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2 years

This is a fragmented essay exercise. By the time you're done, you'll have a first draft of a fragmented essay, It's in the shape of a tree, and this exercise has produced published works!

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2 years

When you're done, you'll have an essay about the origin of you, and its trajectory. Dream big, write big. ❤️Revision tips: read it out loud as many times as possible with a pen in hand.

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@TereseMarieM

8 months

white people took sasquets ('bigfoot,' which is a derogatory term) and made our myth goofy, then made his homeland a tourist sight, that's really fucked up and why we don't share stories with you anymore.

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5 years

How about instead of land acknowledgments we do genocide acknowledgments. Thanks, T

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2 years

Prompt 1. What is at the root of you and what do you luxuriate in? What feeds those roots? Write about it for 5-10 minutes. Students have described community centers/Hogans, longhouses, rivers, their grandmothers, their uncles in suspenders, ... describe what you need to.

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2 years

I'm upset when I see colonizers talking about who is and isn't a woman ... their ideas about gender are so new. Their culture is so limited and so is their language. They erased our histories to create a world where Piers Morgan has a show? They let anybody be president ... like

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2 years

The thing I wish we focused more on with Orange Shirt Day is that the government still apprehends Indigenous children at a ridiculous rate. More than half of children in care are Indigenous yet we make up less that 10% of the population?

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2 years

Mainly, that was a joke, but we shouldn't act like there isn't a long history of white women, especially academics who vilify the concept of beauty from a 2nd wave perspective, exploiting women who use their beauty to survive under patriarchal systems. I saw that as a sex worker.

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@TereseMarieM

2 years

NDNs with white moms are still NDN. NDNs with absent NDN dads are still NDN. NDNs with two parents on council are still NDN. NDNs who were adopted out are still NDN. Black Indigenous people/Black NDN are still NDN. It's colonized to hurt our own for likes - what Keeler does.

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2 years

I think it's important to randomly say every now and then that Sherman Alexie can't come back, shouldn't work with Native women at tribal colleges, and the women who spoke out deserve to be protected and advocated for consistently to keep our lit communities safe.

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@TereseMarieM

2 years

the bottom line is that Keeler isn't a real journalist - she was unable to work with NAJA, she was unable to work with Indian Country Today, she was unable to work with some of the most formative organizers and activists today because she accused them on twitter of embezzlement,

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3 months

I wrote this. If you pick up a copy, take a picture of my name! I'm very proud of this one for obvious reasons.

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3 months

A closer look at the Lily Gladstone interview for ELLE Canada's March issue, on newsstands Monday, February 19.

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5 years

I saw pictures of my ancestors wearing headdresses and thought, wow, we're headdress people? Then discovered white photographers forced them to wear Wild West garb to depict them how they thought Indians should look. Colonization is crazy.

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3 years

Auntie passed today. Love to those who knew Lee Maracle and her children. Safe journeys and hands up to Auntie for her power, her voice, crude jokes, Big Auntie Medicine and safe home. She gave me safety when I needed it. She taught me good things I still and will always carry ♥️

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@TereseMarieM

10 months

the fact we're begging the Canadian government to search a landfill for NDN women should tell you what it's like to be an NDN woman there.

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@TereseMarieM

2 years

I'm teaching a workshop at story studio in Chicago and today I asked them to write a letter to someone and say the unsaid thing between them. Could be an employer, a brother, a mother, a friend ... I gave them 20 minutes for this. Then we added texture.

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2 years

it's in poor taste for the @sfchronicle to publish an article about Sacheen when she's not alive to defend herself or speak to her own identity and history with her sisters. It's even worse they didn't take their time with the story or do their due diligence.

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2 years

Prompt 2. What holds you up? What's at your trunk? What skills have you acquired in spite of people, or because of them? Are you a good auntie? Show me that. Are you good at helping strangers? Tell me about it.

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4 years

In nonfiction workshop people ask how to write about loved ones and I give three general tips: give them an attribute they want to see in themselves (thanks Toni Jensen for this) reveal more about yourself than you do about them be honest and only show them the final draft

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3 years

I'm late but I just wanted to say that I'm bi (obviously) and I kissed a beautiful girl on National Coming Out Day/Indigenous People's Day although it wasn't planned but life is good like that. On my rez, and my friends' rezzes, being out was met with violence. It took me time.

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7 months

Oh I hope pioneer woman gets her shit pulled. That prairie ass weak nacho making settler. Lol her aesthetics are so ugly too like I’m tired of her wares in Walmart taking up space.

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6 months

I wrote this one! What an honor. Love to Lily. I think she's such a stunner and what a great artist, and everyone who's met her has kind things to say about her humility. She is a vetted, brilliant and wonderful game changer 🩷🦅🌽🩵🩷.

Film Updates

@FilmUpdates

6 months

Lily Gladstone on the cover of Elle: Women in Hollywood 2023 issue

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2 years

I quit Purdue. The undergraduates have my love - I liked seeing them write for fun and they were all kind of sweet. My graduates I worked independently with, we'll always be connected. I want more freedom and I'd like to show my babies a bigger life beyond Indiana. ❤️❤️❤️🍓🍓🍓🦅

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Prompt 3. Show me a scene where you used a skill that's saved you. You can tell it straight. You can tell it in-scene. You can give me dialogue. Show me you at your best. Value yourself. Center yourself and your survival.

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Prompt 4. This is the branches part. Show me your hopes and dreams: the things that reach for the sun. I used to dream about being interviewed on TV and that happened. My new dreams involve a purple couch and a peaceful life. Tell me about your dreams.

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@TereseMarieM

5 years

The audacity of non-Cherokee women thinking they can speak over Cherokee women concerning Elizabeth Warren. Respect sovereignty, listen to the women who grapple with a specific type of pain every time a white person says, "My great grandmother was Cherokee."

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2 years

literary arts has mostly been run by white men regarding its aesthetics and approach. I'm tired of workshop. I'm tired of prioritizing "craft" over humanity. I'm tired of how often my students think they need to write "smart" over true, real, and good to their standards n ideas.

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1 year

I don't like when people talk to me like I fell off as an author because I took a break to get divorced and recover/have a child. Writing is a long game, and time makes you a better writer. You can't pressure yourself to perform if you need time as an artist to grow and heal.

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@TereseMarieM

5 years

Terese Marie Mailhot’s Heart Berries wins the inaugural $7,500 Spalding Prize for the Promotion of Peace and Justice in Literature via @spalding_mfa

Terese Marie Mailhot’s Heart Berries wins the inaugural $7,500 Spalding Prize for the Promotion of...

By Kathleen Driskell, Chair of the School of Creative and Professional Writing at Spalding University Terese Marie Mailhot Though writing can be used as a therapeutic, as a literary artist I’ve alw…

spaldingmfablog.wordpress.com

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@TereseMarieM

5 years

Thank you, Mother. Brothers. Native women. The Whiting. I'm so so so excited to live and write. 10 Emerging Writers Receive $50,000 Whiting Grants

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@TereseMarieM

5 years

Every person who picked up my book helped keep my babies warm and fed this season. I am so grateful for everyone who supported my art because I was prepared to do it for nothing, but you lifted me up and now this mom has more time to write. Thank you.

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@TereseMarieM

3 months

when a Native person seems depressed, understand we carry generational trauma and epigenetics is real. We carry anxiety about living, about even trying to love or enjoy life when we carry memories of massacres. It's been studied - there's a reason why we have high suicide rates.

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@TereseMarieM

3 years

traditional writing spaces told me to give my characters characterization and dynamism, but -- in nonfiction, I realized it's okay to give a man who hurt me no characterization at all. If someone was flat, I wrote them flat. That's justice and truth. Readers got it.

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@TereseMarieM

10 months

my son's father said "I actually work," when I told him I was tired and needed a guilt free break. I think childcare, even when it's your baby, is work. It takes a genius with endless patience to entertain and keep a baby happy. Just saying, I'm doing a great job.

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@TereseMarieM

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you're a poet before you publish poetry and a novelist before you publish a novel, a memoirist before you publish that, too - it's how you write and look at things that makes you a poet at heart or whatever at heart. My mom didn't publish one thing but she was a writer at heart.

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2 years

I kind of only want to hear native history from NDN women and Two Spirit people because our men tend to have the compulsion to erase and neglect stories that trouble legacies. Like talk about Anna Mae Aquash and the creeps in Red Power, talk about historical anti-Blackness ...

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2 years

native twitter took down Lakota man because he got too annoying giving out NDN names and being anti-Black/too pandering/too uncle-esque... like we all collectively agreed and a day later detectives were on the case and he was done. A lot of pride just 2day for #NativeTwitter

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@TereseMarieM

1 year

@anpojensen First avatar was racist. Anybody w eyes ... they call them blue savages lol. 💙 the movie was enough to tell us he sucked.

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@TereseMarieM

2 years

I wanted to share another writing exercise for people who can't afford a class:

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@TereseMarieM

2 years

hey your girl got tenure 🧐🙌🙏🦅🍓🥂😏 and has too many to thank.

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@TereseMarieM

2 years

I'll be receiving the 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas and I am in joyful disbelief! I'm so happy to be honored and seen. I work and write for my babies and my people and our continuance - I'm proud of this work and this win🦅🙌🏽🍓💝

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@TereseMarieM

5 years

My new paperback. Sharper. No introduction. No afterword. All love! It takes a long time to get it right.

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@TereseMarieM

3 years

there's a big misconception that i worked really hard to be where i am and i want ppl to know i would't do that

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@TereseMarieM

6 years

The physical thing is out today. Here I am, a bestseller. The world is my oyster and I shuck that shit clean. I made my way. I told myself the world was bigger and brighter with me in it. That's the only way it could happen for me.

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@TereseMarieM

2 years

NDNs had medicines for abortion before yt ppl came. I'm always going to ride w our healers and our teachings to guide me and I wish these colonizers and settlers had better teachers and some decency.

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@TereseMarieM

5 years

Reviews about native literature always use words like "contemporary Native life" or "what it means to be Native in modern times" like Indians forever default to being relics unless specified. Like we can't be writers, period, writing about life, period. Please stop.

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@TereseMarieM

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The cutest thing about Lily Gladstone is she always wanted to be an Ewok, ever since she was 5. She became an actress cause she knew that was the closest she could come. Hope Star Wars casts her someday as an Ewok matriarch, honestly. Creator make her dreams come true 💗💗💗💗💕

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@TereseMarieM

4 years

I'm sorry but asking an Indigenous writer what other Indigenous writers they'd recommend is weird. I can recommend Native writers all day, but ... Imaging asking a white writer, "What other white writers would you recommend?" Do you see what you're doing, interviewers?

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@TereseMarieM

5 years

It's not every day you learn your book will be taught at Yale by Roxane Gay. That's amazing and the world can be good sometimes. So good.

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@TereseMarieM

2 years

I'd like to be a guest on any show Pioneer Woman is on and ask her how she feels married into a murderous family who killed Indians for their stupid ranch and why she's capitalizing on it by calling herself a pioneer? And if she'd consider changing her name to Murder Lady 🧐.

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@TereseMarieM

1 year

That + Emma Watson putting me on her book club (Thank you to Roxane for promoting my book and telling people about it in such a way) made me a NYT bestseller. People who use their platforms to promote writers and artists from marginalized/targeted communities: thank you.

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@TereseMarieM

5 years

I'm reflecting on the year. Published a New York Times bestseller. Emma Watson held my book, posted a selfie with it. Made editors choice @nytimes . Bought my babies winter jackets without a thought, although the Dillard's employee was racist. Let me say that you can do this.

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@TereseMarieM

2 years

It's with profound love we protect people from Keeler. Before the list, we had our own measures and methodologies inaccessible to white people. Keeler and her academic friend Tallbear, and her friend Tiffany Midge have made things dangerously accessible to white people.

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5 years

“No matter what we write, white people can turn our stories into weapons.” via @MotherJones

Native American lives are tragic, but probably not in the way you think

“No matter what we write, white people can turn our stories into weapons.”

www.motherjones.com

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@TereseMarieM

4 years

Indigenous authors can stand in solidarity without centering ourselves, our tears, our grief, or our history. It's not necessary to relate what Black people are going through to our experiences and history in order to talk about it responsibly.

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5 years

Writing about the Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls inquiry today, and looking forward to shutting down racists who are somehow upset about the findings but won't read the thing to educate themselves. I mean.

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@TereseMarieM

2 years

I just hope white people know they cannot learn us in books, they can't fully see us in one or a dozen referential articles or formative works, they cannot know one of us and know all. They can't take one scholar and know about how we form our identities. They need to not.

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@TereseMarieM

2 years

Hey everyone I found out June 22 I am with child, super preggy, fatigued, but happy about having another little person in my life. That said, it slowed me down in a good way and I'm catching up at a healthy pace. 👶⛈️💐🥂🙌💝👀

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@TereseMarieM

6 months

universities are holding the literal remains of our ancestors and they've been more than slow to return them. I think they hope we'll simply die off so they can keep those bones and artifacts in cases. Our ancestors and artifacts belong with us and to us.

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What unpopular academia opinion would get you in this situation?

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@TereseMarieM

2 years

in my creative nonfiction classes I ask students to write about something they've done they can't redeem. It's a good activity in truth and how to cultivate dynamism in self-characterization. The reader knows when you're full of shit and honesty n style have to be primary in CNF

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@TereseMarieM

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I think, for some of us making art from trauma, we're sharing what we can make sense of - the process of writing helps us grieve/honor us, and some of us feel an urgency to share how we survived - we're making art but it's also solid, provoking work that says, "You're not alone."

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When people were heated and writing think pieces about history and preservation regarding Marilyn Monroe's dress I was just weirded out cause their people dug up our graves and their people ruin historical sites every day for pipelines. I want that same energy for NDNs.

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@TereseMarieM

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Keeler's hinted in a since-deleted post I might not be Indian and I might be somehow shady with my resignation at Purdue - I assure you I am Indian and left Purdue for some very NDN reasons: dysfunction, abuse, relationship violence, racism, trauma. She wants to dox me but no.

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10 months

I feel bad for NDNs who are doing the admirable thing in warning others about Lakotaman - they want to make sure support and eyes go to the people who are really doing the work, but some white people just want to follow one NDN who tells them what they want to hear.

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@TereseMarieM

3 years

My latest for @TIME . Returning to my people's teachings has not been easy, but it's been a source of power, and given me some hope in the heart break.

I Rejected Native Grieving Ceremonies When My Mother Died. The Pandemic Has Changed That

The sorrow and isolation of the pandemic has brought Terese Marie Mailhot back to her mother's traditions

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@TereseMarieM

6 years

I do not desire balance as a mom who works and writes. Balance is synonymous with equality and grace. I stumble through this life. I am surrounded by inequality and asking me to find balance in an unbalanced world is a little unfair.

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1 year

Academia really ruined my teaching ability. If I could go back and re-teach every class I would teach the art of a slow process. I'd resist the industry's need for quick production and turnaround and tell my students to take their time, just with me, and see if it helps the art.

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@TereseMarieM

2 years

when ndns try to shame other ndns for not living on a rez or leaving a rez I want to shame them for literally anything because they have no idea why some of us left or that it was life or death for me. Some families are born on the wrong side of the tracks (literally me lol) ...

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@TereseMarieM

2 years

oh man I didn't say only hotties can write hotties but given that Marilyn's entire career centered around her sexuality, what would Oates know about that life or how to portray it with heart - She did not want insight into that life, she wanted to exploit a woman in that life.

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Indigenous women can be found in a landfill, all we're asking is a government search. We've only asked that the Canadian government search. After Pickton you'd really doubt us.

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@TereseMarieM

4 years

Hi to all the new followers! You can expect some writing advice and my own singular opinions on being NDN! I try very hard to bring things from my classroom here, because I believe what we learn in an MFA should be for everybody. ❤️🙌👊❤️

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@TereseMarieM

5 years

When you sever a tie, really sever that shit. I learned that recently. Don't check to see if they're still awful, they are. Clean house and let the light in. You can be like, "I don't know her." and mean it. Sometimes the best revenge is abandonment.

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@TereseMarieM

2 years

emotional abuse on a person dealing with mental illness can be so hard to talk about and I haven't seen it written about or discussed enough - it was very easy for my ex to invalidate and question every feeling and thought I had by calling it symptomatic to bipolar disorder.

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Little Mountain Woman

@TereseMarieM

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don't listen to calls for civility or politeness right now that's a colonizer's tactic to try and calm you down when anger is a correct and fair response, and people who are angry and want to express it in protest have my support and understanding.

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Little Mountain Woman

@TereseMarieM

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Native women never win by fluke. When you see us winning it took so much to get there and we were stopped or discouraged every step of the way by someone. It's really that rough. At least for me. Every level requires resolve and defiance.

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Little Mountain Woman

@TereseMarieM

2 years

*whispers* a little native history: thee Native activist/speaker Gyasi Ross called himself a young elder way back in 2016 on his podcast and kinda never lived it down in some circles. People still joke about it. Ndns are kinda mean lol.

Reservation Dogs

@RezDogsFX

2 years

The younger the elder, the bigger the sh*tass. #ReservationDogs

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Little Mountain Woman

@TereseMarieM

5 years

Writing advice: don't worry about who got what at the end of the year when you got yours. You did it. You made it out the year with your life and some good pages. We're okay.

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@TereseMarieM

5 months

@CaitCorrain this feels like white tears - there's no need to center yourself or your condition in an apology and you don't need to justify your actions, you have to account for them and offer actionable items to make amends - Also give all the empathy to those you harmed.

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Little Mountain Woman

@TereseMarieM

1 year

Omg imagine keeler's face when she saw an ndn woman she tried to take down winning. Keeler. You should clap. This is a win for us. Don't hurt our own for notoriety 💗💕

Kyle Buchanan

@kylebuchanan

1 year

KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON mvp Lily Gladstone is getting her major moment during its Cannes standing ovation

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Little Mountain Woman

@TereseMarieM

3 years

My students worry about working with fragmented memories or they're unsure how to write in order when they only feel disordered about it but I tell them things don't need to be in order to be beautiful. You're alright. Just write. ♥️🙏💙💞🧐 I wanna see your disordered heart.

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Little Mountain Woman

@TereseMarieM

5 years

Applying to programs, it was demoralizing to write "I'm brown and poor" in application letters, but I was advised to do it. We need advisors and faculty who look like us and can let us apply for things from a place of pride instead of a place of subjugation.

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