Taté Walker
"The Trickster Riots" is an illustrated poetry book inspired by the Lakota trickster, Iktomi (which translates to Spider). Tricksters like Iktomi teach us valuable lessons about cultural values and community/familial expectations. Despite this, they are the antagonists of stories, the wrongdoers - someone who gets in trouble so we don't have to. They aren't necessarily good or bad (though they do get up to some seriously nasty business); Iktomi is just Iktomi.
I don't think we talk enough about how tricksters force us to think outside of binaries. Tricksters are on the frontlines of change - the original disrupters who make us consider different ways to do things, even if we don't like how that looks.
I've got tricksy vibes. As a queer, neurodivergent mother fighting against injustice, I'm often told by authorities and gatekeepers to uphold the status quo or suffer the consequences. I know I'm the villain in some stories, but I also hope my actions have helped remove another's eye wool, if only to glimpse brighter possibilities.
The poems in this book explore body positivity, genderqueerness, motherhood, viral encounters, pretendians, karendians, mascots, auntie humor, land back, and other topics of Indigenous excellence/colonial impotence. My hope is folx read it and feel inspired to disrupt status quo behaviors and systems.
I don't think we talk enough about how tricksters force us to think outside of binaries. Tricksters are on the frontlines of change - the original disrupters who make us consider different ways to do things, even if we don't like how that looks.
I've got tricksy vibes. As a queer, neurodivergent mother fighting against injustice, I'm often told by authorities and gatekeepers to uphold the status quo or suffer the consequences. I know I'm the villain in some stories, but I also hope my actions have helped remove another's eye wool, if only to glimpse brighter possibilities.
The poems in this book explore body positivity, genderqueerness, motherhood, viral encounters, pretendians, karendians, mascots, auntie humor, land back, and other topics of Indigenous excellence/colonial impotence. My hope is folx read it and feel inspired to disrupt status quo behaviors and systems.
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