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A review by telltalepage
Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit & Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction by Joshua Whitehead
5.0
I'm so glad I read this anthology.
Everything about it pulled me in. As always, I learned a lot, even just from the introduction alone. There was plenty of things I didn't understand, but I could absorb so much knowledge and interesting stories from the tales within these pages.
One of my favorite things about this book was that it did not cater to non-Native/Indigenous readers. I was experiencing this world, these ideas, these languages, as an observer on the periphery and that made me excited to know that this was written for Indigenous readers. Some books that are about diversity and written by minorities feel like there is an undertone of wanting to be relatable to the general populous, and this did not have that feeling. It felt organically unique to the North American Indigenous history, people and culture.
Everything about it pulled me in. As always, I learned a lot, even just from the introduction alone. There was plenty of things I didn't understand, but I could absorb so much knowledge and interesting stories from the tales within these pages.
One of my favorite things about this book was that it did not cater to non-Native/Indigenous readers. I was experiencing this world, these ideas, these languages, as an observer on the periphery and that made me excited to know that this was written for Indigenous readers. Some books that are about diversity and written by minorities feel like there is an undertone of wanting to be relatable to the general populous, and this did not have that feeling. It felt organically unique to the North American Indigenous history, people and culture.