Jonathan Bailey | Martini | June 09, 2026

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Jonathan Bailey | Martini | June 09, 2026
Conservative men are addicted to sexism and rape culture.
2SLQBTQIA+ Indigenous Storytelling
In grade school, we never read Indigenous authors. Instead, we read the typical white man's books that just about every American kid reads over the course of their public school lives. I don’t think I ever even read a book written by a woman during my time in grade school. The books we read are only culturally relevant to a small group of people. Most of the kids I went to school with, including myself, never saw ourselves or the lives we live represented in the media we were forced to consume and analyze. Today’s post is for the 2SLGBTQIA+ and POC people who never got to read books that represented their lives and struggles, and for the authors whose works are not recognized because of their identity.
Ma-Nee Chacaby
Ma-Nee Chacaby is an activist, artist, author, 2-Spirit, Lesbian, Ojibwa-Cree elder. Her works relay the stories of abuse, addiction, and poverty she experienced throughout her life. Chacaby was first introduced to the concept of being 2-Spirit by her grandmother, who told her that “…you have two spirits in your body, mind, soul and your heart.” She tells Chacany that seven generations ago, when she was a little girl, 2-Spirit people lived freely among the First Nations people without fear of discrimination.
In 2016, Ma-Nee Chacaby (with Mary Louisa Plummer) released A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder. The book has won multiple awards, including winning Canada Reads in 2025, the Alison Prentice Award in 2018, and the Oral History Association Book Award in 2017. The book was shortlisted for the Lesbian Memoir/Biography, Lambda Literary Awards in 2017, and was nominated for the Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature in 2016 as well.
The book describes what life was like for Chacaby, living with her Grandmother in a rural Ojibwa community (near Lake Nipigon, Ontario). Chacaby faces many challenges, overcoming abuse and alcoholism in her community, as well as the economic, social, and health challenges stemming from colonization.
Decades later, Chacaby has raised her children, gotten sober (even working as an alcoholism counsellor), came out as a Lesbian controversially in 1988 in a Thunder Bay Television news story, and begun painting as a part of her healing process (See her exhibits HERE).
Chacaby has since become an activist for 2SLGBTQ+ and Indigenous people, leading the very first Thunder Bay Pride Parade in 2013.
Buy A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder!
Follow Chacaby on Instagram!
Gwen Benaway
Gwen Benaway (she/her) is a 2-Spirit trans poet of Anishinaabe and Métis descent. She is credited as one of Canada’s most widely published trans authors, having published four poetry collections: Ceremonies for the Dead, Passage, Holy Wild, and day/break, a collection of essays, and worked as an editor for the short stories Maiden Mother and Crone: Fantastical Trans Femmes. Benaway is a Ph.D student at the Women and Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. Poetry in Voice states that Benaway’s work is critically acclaimed in Canada, and that she was a “finalist for the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers from the Writer’s Trust of Canada, and her third poetry collection, Holy Wild, was longlisted for the Pat Lowther Award, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Trans Poetry, the Trillium Award, the Triangle Publishing Press Trans and Gender Variant Literary Award, and was the winner of the 2019 Governor General Literary Award for Poetry.”
Benaway claims in a ‘micro-interview’ with Poetry in Voice that Anne Sexton helped her discover the confessional poetry that has become her focus, alongside Indigenous authors Marilyn Dumont and Gregory Scofield.
Buy Benaway’s Books here & here!
Joshua Whitehead
Joshua Whitehead (he/him) is a 2-spirit, Oji-Cree academic and author from the Peguis First Nation on Treaty 1 territory in Manitoba, working as an Associate Professor at the University of Calgary on Treaty 7 territory.
Whitehead is a prolific author and poet whose works include, but are not limited to, Jonny Appleseed (2018), Making Love with the Lands (2022), and full-metal indigiqueer (2017). Find Whitehead’s full list of publications on Goodreads. Whitehead’s works feature the intersectionality of queerness, Indigenous identity, and mental health.
Whitehead began writing poetry in kindergarten, but he really felt that he was a poet in high school. His poems are typically lyrical, with an experimental and intertextual style. He claims in his ‘micro-interview with Poetry in Voice that in his poem "full-metal oji-cree" (a poem in Poetry in Voice’s anthology), he seeks to remove the idea of Indigeneity from a historical context and write it into a futuristic, sci-fi setting.
Buy his books and poetry here!
every major structural social problem right now is basically "we don't have enough skilled workers on the ground" and the reason is always "well we've been intentionally underpaying and understaffng them for decades to increase corporate profits" and somehow the news always just mentions the "shortage" without digging into the cause
air travel is a mess? shortage of air traffic controllers - for some mysterious reason
logistics a mess? shortage of truck drivers - for some mysterious reason
public transit can't meet demand? shortage of bus drivers - for some mysterious reason
We even mysteriously have shortages of doctors, nurses, teachers... FOR SOME MYSTERIOUS REASON
FUCKING PAY PEOPLE AND HIRE ENOUGH STAFF
I think a lot about who I am to other people in the world–particular who I am to strangers as a mere concept in their lives.
Today this woman called our information desk and said, “my son’s band is playing tonight. I want to come see him, but he never answers his phone…..I want to be there. Have you heard anything about his band?”
And I felt so bad for this lady but I’m not in the music scene around here so I had to tell her no, sorry.
Five hours later, I’m hiking and run into a group of guys setting up for some outdoor performance, and as I watch them unload the drums it hits me.
“Hey,” I said, “are y’all in a band?”
They said yeah and smiled and I told them “one of your moms called today. She wants to watch you play, but she can’t get a hold of you. Call your mom.”
And they all pulled out their phones and started discussing whose mom it probably was as they presumably dialed their own.
And now, unless we meet again and recognize each other, that’s who I’ll be forever to those guys–some mysterious courier for mom-messages who came out of the woods and told them their mom called.
I didn’t even tell them why their mom called me. Who am I to their mom?? Nobody even asked. They just took my word for it and called their mothers.
Amazing.
I’M LAUGHING!!! THEY DIDN’T EVEN ASK WHO I AM.
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happy pride to the gay people in my computer <3
one of my favorite hobbies is not being a parent
Happy Pride Month to those two women dancing together in the foreground of the boat scene in Godzilla (1954).
I’m sorry your romantic foibles were overshadowed by a big ass atomic lizard thing.
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Scooby Doo has great life lessons to teach:
If something evil is happening, it’s probably an old white man trying to make money.
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happy todays slipping by monday to all who celebrate