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Today our guest is Dene-Métis pho­tog­ra­ph­er, artist, poet and grad­u­ate stu­dent at USaskatchewan, Tenille Camp­bell. We chat about her first book of poet­ry pub­lished by Sig­na­ture Edi­tions: #Indi­anLove­Po­ems. Camp­bel­l’s poems are a tour de force of sex­u­al­i­ty and Indige­nous eroti­cism, a no-holds barred look at love-mak­ing and love-giv­ing in Indi­an Coun­try today. Tenille has pre­formed her poems at Tipi Con­fes­sions in Van­cou­ver and Edmon­ton, mak­ing every­one blush. I ask Tenille about her ver­sion of decolo­nial love, what ide­al Indige­nous mas­culin­i­ty looks like to her, Face­book cen­sor­ship narcs, and how she han­dles the ever-present gos­sip mill and switch­ing fil­ters from being a grad­u­ate stu­dent lit­er­ary crit­ic to a poet. Tenille is also an accom­plished pho­tog­ra­ph­er check out her work at: Sweet Moon Photography.