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it was never going to be okay

jaye simpson

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“ **Sovereignty, vulnerability, honesty.**” —Ms. Magazine

_it was never going to be okay_ is a collection of poetry and prose exploring the intimacies of understanding intergenerational trauma, Indigeneity and queerness, while addressing urban Indigenous diaspora and breaking down the limitations of sexual understanding as a trans woman.

As a way to move from the linear timeline of healing and coming to terms with how trauma does not exist in subsequent happenings, _it was never going to be okay_ tries to break down years of silence in Simpson’s debut collection of poetry:

> i am five
>
> my sisters are saying boy
>
> i do not know what the word means but—
>
> i am bruised into knowing it:
>
> the blunt b,
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> the hollowness of the o,
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> the blade of y

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