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Tawahum Bige [he/they] is, in their words, “the whole gamut”: poet, performer, land defender, rapper, musician, and writer, as well as an uncle and a little brother.  Bige, a Two-Spirit, nonbinary Łutsel K’e Dene and Plains Cree writer, began their poetry career while studying at Kwantlen University. They remember being struck by the power of imagery while hearing spoken word poet Hannah Johnson perform at Slamming the Binary: “They had this work about merm...