Excited to have one of my poems uplifted in this collection! 🌿

I am lucky to have a kickass staff full of neurodivergent, queer, disabled, and BIPOC humans. And I am all of those things myself! I believe we have a solid workplace culture and policies (driven by the team!) But I also want to cultivate a physical space that feels affirming. Can you help?

So pleased to have an essay in Geist #132! ❤️

Say hello to this little rough-skinned newt! (Yes, I know they exude a toxin. This one needed to be moved to safety, otherwise I wouldn’t have handled them. Always wash immediately and throughly after handling our tiny newt kin!)

Grateful to be on the land, of the land, in relationship with the land

Meet Lupine! She’s a six month old Alabai puppy who is training to be our new bear dog in Koeye. And she is a big, sweet girl (90 lbs already!)

Burned out on socials and haven’t been here in nearly a year. Hi, friends! ❤️🌿

Anybody need a visit from the Cat Distribution System? I have 5 of these little monsters and could potentially bring them with me to Vancouver on Tuesday.

My brother being amazing 🥰 www.cbc.ca/radio/unrese...

I’m doing a fundraiser to support a local family that needs a hand. $20/ticket. I can’t ship due to the mail strike but non-local folks are warmly welcomed to buy tickets as mutual aid and I can put tickets in the names of local elders! EMTs to jess(dot)housty(at)gmail(dot)com

Yáu. How do all you brilliant writers choose names for your books? 🌿

The intimacy and eroticism of Indigenous poetry is unmatched. 👌🏼

Hi friends, what are these seeds from? They were gifted to me with no label!

Ǧiáxsix̌a to Cahiri Secondary School & Timberline Secondary School in Campbell River — and to Words on the Water Festival — for inviting me to visit with some amazing high school students for classroom presentations and writing workshops!

Find me at Words on the Water in Campbell River next week! I’ll have a Friday evening panel, a Saturday morning reading/Q&A, and Saturday Evening Literary Cabaret in addition to a couple of high school visits! #CrushedWildMint www.wordsonthewater.ca

Today I was out on the land and it was good. ❤️

I also got to stop by Books & Shenanigans on Cook St. in Victoria to sign their copies of Crushed Wild Mint! Support those local bookstores, friends. 🥰

I was touched to stop in at Munro’s Books in Victoria and find my book, Crushed Wild Mint, is a staff pick! I signed their copies too, so if you’re after a copy — you could stop by Munro’s! They always have the best fancy pens for authors to sign. 😌

Today I popped into Ivy’s Bookshop on Oak Bay Ave in Victoria to pick up some new reads. And while I was there I signed a copy of #CrushedWildMint, so if you’re after an autographed copy stop on by!

I have the privilege of running a beautiful organization called Qqs Society. I spent ~15 years as the fundraiser for Qqs and have been the Executive Director for 5+ years. The seeds of Qqs’ work started in the mid-90s and it was incorporated as a society in 1999 and a charity in 2001.

Honestly, how magical is this crystalflake snow? Every corner of the motherlands is stunning today.

Books by Black-Indigenous authors to read all year long! Happy Black History Month! Read, reflect, act! #booksky

An aesthetic update on the cracked ribs: how handsome does my tern look with the storm cloud bruise? So brooding! I almost want to tattoo in a majestic sunset background.

Tips for coping with rib fractures please? 🙏🏼

❄️ snow in the motherlands ❄️

Applications are open for our UVic/Qqs field school in Koeye! 🌿 Co-taught by myself and Dr. Chris Darimont 🌿 Takes place in Koeye 🌿 Takes place May 1-7 🌿 Applications due February 28 🌿 4th year Geography class but open to other disciplines

The wonderful @adamsandell.bsky.social, a physician at our local ƛ̓uxválásu̓ilas Hospital, has an insightful twice-monthly newsletter about how to be a good human doing purposeful work. You can explore more and sign up here! www.adamsandell.com/newsletter

Aíkuxvs w̓iúɫ (good morning) ☀️

Still feeling so deeply inspired by and grateful for our Native Hawaiian w̓áw̓áx̌vtus who hosted us so graciously in their homelands and shared about their profound leadership on the land. 🌊 The ocean is a bridge, friends.

Last Friday, the coast guard brought our little Indigenous community 2 humans who had been adrift on a damaged sailboat for nearly 3 weeks before they were rescued. They arrived in Bella Bella with the clothes on their backs.

“It gives me so much joy that there are kids growing up who have no concept that our culture was ever at the margins. They’re growing up only with the knowledge that in this moment, it’s in the center.” Read more & watch H̓ágṃ́ṇtxv Qṇtxv Tx̌ (We’re all we got) here: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Trying again to transition to this platform and feeling overwhelmed trying to find my people. ❤️

Morning view 🌄

A review of Crushed Wild Mint by Christopher Levenson. 🌿 I am sitting with this tonight and invite you to sit with me! thebcreview.ca/2023/11/24/1...

I need to do some shopping for gifts. Anyone know Palestinian vendors I could support?

Register here: thenarwhal.ca/feeding-the-...

Just an average day, commuting by boat in the wind and rain 🌊

A little interview with Mary Woodbury from Dragonfly! #CrushedWildMint dragonfly.eco/spotlight-cu...

A very small offering, but one that comes with lots of love. ❤️🌿

Victoria Festival of Authors tomorrow! See you at the 10 AM and 2 PM walking poetry readings at W̱MÍYEŦEN Nature Sanctuary. 🌿

Delighted to learn my essay — Death is a Deer, Death is a Wolf — has been shortlisted in The Ampersand Review’s essay contest! 🌿 And grateful to have the brilliant Alicia Elliott’s eyes on my writing as the guest judge. ❤️

Aíkuxvs w̓iúɫ

Grateful to UVic Alumni Mag for profiling my work and my recent book of poems! 🌿 www.uvic.ca/alumni/read-...

Ǧiáxsix̌a to andrea bennett and The Tyee for this thoughtful conversation about my debut poetry collection! 🌿#CrushedWildMint thetyee.ca/Culture/2023...

Feeling blessed with two book events under my belt and seven more planned this month. First run of the book sold out already! #CrushedWildMint is a living thing! The vulnerability hangover is real. 🌿

Prince Rupert! See you at the Museum at 3 PM today for a book reading + signing. 🌊 #CrushedWildMint

Grateful to have my very first book event under my belt! Lots of gratitude to my home community for showing up in numbers that brought tears to my eyes. 🌿 #CrushedWildMint

Big ❤️ to Fogline Photos for a culturally and emotionally safe photo session with results that make me feel amazing! 🌿

It arrived! I wrote a book of poems!