Joshua Whitehead's Making Love with the Land is an essay collection exploring Indigeneity, queerness, and the relationship between bodies and land. Through personal narrative, cultural criticism, and poetic language, Whitehead examines how colonialism has severed Indigenous peoples from land and how reclaiming that connection is essential to survival. The collection becomes both intimate memoir and political manifesto, proving that land is not metaphor for Indigenous people and that queer Indigenous voices are reshaping what decolonization means.

WHY WE PICKED IT: Because Whitehead writes about land, body, and identity with a poet's precision and an activist's urgency. These essays remind us that Indigenous relationships to land are physical and spiritual, that queer Indigenous perspectives matter, and that decolonization requires reimagining everything.

DETAILS: • Author: Joshua Whitehead • Publisher: University of Minnesota Press • Format: Paperback • Publication Date: October 1, 2024 • ISBN: 9781517915049 • Ships direct from distributor in 3–7 business days