Born Under the Tobacco Flower, and Raised Under the Lis
Dreams of a separatist Quebec nation are founded on conservative, racist attachments to bloodline that leftist adherents cannot so quickly disavow
Lindsay Nixon
Lindsay Nixon is a Cree-Métis-Saulteaux curator, editor, award-nominated writer, and self-loathing art history grad student. They currently hold the position of Indigenous Editor at Large for Canadian Art. Nixon’s writing has appeared in the Malahat Review, Room, GUTS, MICE, esse, the Inuit Art Quarterly, and other publications. Their forthcoming creative nonfiction collection, tentatively titled nîtisânak, is to be released in spring 2018 through Metonymy Press. Nixon currently resides in Tio’tia:ke/Mooniyaang, unceded Haudenosaunee and Anishinabe territories (Montreal, QC), where they cofounded the Black Indigenous Harm Reduction Alliance.