Kinsale Drake (Din) is a 22-year-old poet/editor/playwright whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry, Best New Poets, Poets.org, Poetry Northwest, Black Warrior Review, Teen Vogue, MTV, NYLON, TIME, NPR, and elsewhere. This picture was one of several that served as a reminder of unfinished business for me in the area of public interest work, and helped lead to the formation of the Social Justice Legal Foundation. Contact her at kinsale.hueston@yale.edu. Its kind of weird. In its focus on community-driven assistance in the face of federal neglect, systemic racism and local suppression, Din collective efforts intersect with the Black Lives Matter movements deep focus on radical mobilization. Around 1677, the Earl of Orrey ordered the building of a new fort to command the Ringcurran Point on the eastern side of Kinsale Harbor . In the decades following the war, the English began to build fortifications on the coast to prevent Kinsale from being captured by enemies so easily in the future. I remember in high school when I was about to submit for the award that I won, I was so I started writing for my Kinsale graduated from Yale in Dec. 2022 with B.A.s in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration and English (Writing Concentration), where she received the Susan OConnor Award, fellowships from Mellon Mays and the Richter Fund, the J. Edgar Meeker Prize, the Academy of American Poets Prize, and the Young Native Playwrights Award for her writing. at one point were only oral. I see my Din friends posting in solidarity, challenging their home communities to call out anti-Blackness and address their overt and hidden biases, creating new translations each day to have discussions in Navajo about Black Lives Matter. They are fearless and determined, no matter the adversary, and as a result recovered over $40 million for the Navajo Nation. Doreen Nanibaa McPaul in the Navajo Nation in response to the devastation of COVID-19. Many called the experience life changing. Good Fire, a Poem by Kinsale Hueston for Indigenous Peoples' Day. She memorized poems out of an. We believed we were making a difference, and we did make a difference: the student protests that followed to include arrests on the campus green led to focused work by the College to divest. Fully launching in 2023, NDN Girls Book Club provides free workshops to Native peoples, mainly youth of marginalized genders, that focus on a love for literature and writing. #triallawyers #newyork, We are grateful to have handled some of the Navajo Nation's most important legal matters, and are humbled by Navajo Nation Attorney General Doreen Nanibaa McPaul's description of our most recent work: force myself to make a metaphor, but when I have something to write, thats when it happens for me. relief for Black and brown communities, anti-racist education materials, protest safety tips. Coxe Cage filled with the song of drum circles. Thats what I love about poetry, but At that time, she was 5 and her oldest sister Tara was an 18-year-old freshman at Princeton. When expanded it provides a list of search options that will switch the search inputs to match the current selection. We also cannot draw divisions between the two, erasing Black Indigenous identities at the intersection, or the fact that Black communities are also experiencing disproportionate rates of COVID-19 infection and deaths. (Courtesy of Scholastic Art & Writing Awards) OC Weekly Editor-in-Chief Matt Coker has been engaging, enraging and entertaining readers of newspapers, magazines and websites for decades. First Peoples Fund, 706 West Boulevard, Rapid City, SD 57701, We The Peoples Before Education Fellowship. Program Type. As the founder of the changing womxn collective, Hueston collates said communityone bound by the celebration of BIPOC creativitywith digital media. It wasnt something I took home and showed my parents until I won an award for it in Around 10th grade, her writing got more serious as she had, as she puts it, a bit of an identity crisis being a Native American specifically, Navajo in Southern California. your own Pins on Pinterest Language. gateway for me to write the types of poems that kind of laid the groundwork. She has just finished her first year at Yale University and has won awards for her poetry including the Yale Young Native Storytellers Award for Spoken Word/Storytelling, the J. Edgar Meeker Prize (May 2019, Yale University), and three National Scholastic Gold Medals for poetry and dramatic script. Christmas, like Maya Angelou, and childrens rhyming poetry. 6:36 pm, Jun 09, 2020. By Kinsale Hueston. To prepare everyone for the trip, she had led presentations at the private prep school about the history, culture, expectations and even etiquette unique to the Navajo people. the whowoulda thots Recent. Other Works | Publicity Listings | Official Sites. KINSALE HUESTON is a rising junior in Timothy Dwight College. I feel like Ive been granted such a As student-led organizations uniting for change, we must do more than just acknowledge the institutionalized violence and injustices occurring across the nation we must actively fight against them. indigenous woman my native family did so much, literally survived genocide for 2017 National Student Poet for the West. Attention all Columbia Law School, Howard University School of Law, and Yale Law School 3Ls and recent graduates. Together we must combat the effects of the settler, supremacist state; we must lift up our relatives and fight alongside them. Congratulations Kinsale. Very best wishes from all the Duwans, especially our Yale 20 that finally had pomp and circumstance last weekend. So proud of Kinsale and extremely inspiring. Shaun Taylor-Corbett and Kinsale Hueston give lively, animated performances of A Snake Falls to Earth, a young adult novel celebrating friendship and the power of [] To make matters worse, many Din residents live in multigenerational homes, meaning that if family members leave their houses, they risk exposing elders. platform Im creating, but its also a way for me to raise up other artists and writers, and thats a healing Your email address will not be published. her own point of view through art and conversation, and in welcoming in the perspectives of others. Word/Storytelling, and in 2017-2018 was named the National Student Poet. Simultaneously, however, it is important to note that the COVID-19 pandemic on the reservation should not be directly compared in relevance or importance to BLM. necessary to share with, KH: Yeah. reservation. The largest Native American reservation, in terms of both population and area, the Navajo Nation has seen, so far, 5,533 reported cases and 252 deaths. I dont think Ive run into anyone my age whos completely cut off from the news or current events. Its kind of weird. Her poetry has been exhibited at LACMA, NYU Gallatin, Carnegie Hall, The Main Museum, Grand Performances LA, and more. Preview. Many other grassroots organizers face the same local challenges across the reservation as they continue to deliver aid against the tide of tribal government curfew, redirection and systemic disadvantage. I seek to contemporize Native American culture with my poetry, and for me my work is a form of activism, she said. Kinsale Hueston is a 2017-2018 National Student Poet and a sophomore at Yale University. I didnt really know how to deal with that, St. Margaret's. JSerra Catholic. Narrated by: Kinsale Hueston Length: 9 hrs and 1 min Unabridged Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 242 Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 217 Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 217 Imagine an America very similar to our own. Through my phone screen, I cheer on my friends from Yale, posting donation drives for Black organizations, community funds. The conditions that have worsened the effects of COVID-19 on the reservation did not emerge from Navajo residents choices or lifestyle. in late March, when organizers and volunteers faced the challenge of traversing hundreds of miles of unpaved roads to deliver supplies to families lacking sufficient goods in the Navajo Nations food desert. converse withher is to understand why immediately: this 19-year-old sees true beauty in community, in sharing She had won academic distinctions and prizes, but most special to her mom and me was | 68 comments on LinkedIn John Hueston on LinkedIn: #proudparents #character #integrity #girldad | 68 comments She had won academic distinctions and prizes, but most special to her mom and me was this college award for her character. Portfolio For my great-grandparents The Lost Generation St. Margaret's Episcopal School 04/26/2017 To qualify for the National Student Poets Program, she had to emerge from a pool of more than 300 award-winning poets in the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. your head, the poetry is less honest in a way. With his oldest daughter's wedding approaching, a father finds himself reluctant to let go. And I just wanted to share opportunities with otherespecially young, YALE DAILY NEWS PUBLISHING CO., INC. 202 York Street, New Haven, CT 06511 | (203) 432-2400 . Publisher. As student-led organizations uniting for change, we must do more than just acknowledge the institutionalized violence and injustices occurring across the nation we must actively fight against them. Kinsale has been recognized as a 2022 In The Know Changemaker and one of Times People Changing How We See the World curated by filmmaker Ava Duvernay. This week, a report published by Hackney Council revealed that in 20, This months release of Inventing Anna, Shonda Rhimes new Netflix miniseries about a socialite scammer running through elite circles in New York has i, I didnt know they were gay! As a Black queer woman, I'm constantly stumbling upon slightly cracked doors that lead to Black queer life. Pegasus alumna, Kinsale Hueston '14, who attends St. Margaret's Episcopal School, was recently named as one of fiveNational Student Poets for 2017, the nation's highest honor for youth poets. We also cannot draw divisions between the two, erasing Black Indigenous identities at the intersection, or the fact that Black communities are also experiencing disproportionate rates of COVID-19 infection and, . Little did Hueston know, she was one of 34 people selected by renowned movie director and artist Ava DuVernay and TIME . She is the recipient of the Yale Young Native Storytellers Award for Spoken Word/Storytelling, the J. Edgar Meeker Prize (May 2019, Yale University), and three National Scholastic Gold Medals for poetry and dramatic script. They took videos on their phones, [] November 7, 2018 . For years, the USEPA hid behind its sovereign immunity and marshaled a massive litigation force to erect barriers to the Navajo Nations claims. She served as a guest faculty member for the Emerging Din Writers Institute (Navajo Technical University) during Summer 2022, and curated The Chapter House LAs exhibit BLACKLIST ME in Fall 2022. Kinsale was accompanied in Washington D.C., by her parents, John and Mabelle Hueston, and St. Margaret's English teacher Jamie Bunch. Her mother grew up on the Navajo reservation, in Navajo Mountain, Utah, in the Four Corners area, and introduced the girl to language, tradition, pride and reality. English. We as Din cannot claim to be good relatives, to truly want collective liberation, by pushing Black lives to the side to center our narratives, even in this time of crisis. It makes the people you interact with think a different way, and thats so I always feel two little holes in my heart theres one for California, and then theres one for the [Navajo] reservation. Willow Phoenix. It has community workshops that you can I first discovered Hueston last year through her work on Race to the Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse. certain voices? While her classmates toil the day away at St. Margarets Episcopal School in San Juan Capistrano, Hueston will spend Aug. 31 in Washington, D.C., for her pinning ceremony at the Library of Congress, a private workshop with 21st U.S. But now that they know I do poetry, theyll actually write poems for me, like my aunt Poetry is like an artsy form of venting that helps to express that.. In Los Angeles it was just after 6:30 a.m., so Ms. Redstone texted Rob Klieger, her lawyer and fellow CBS director. In addition to being a junior at Yale University, Kinsale is an award-winning storyteller and writer, and was named one of 34 People Changing How We See the World by Time Magazine. Thats how my mother told me those stories, and my grandmother, and for me, poetry yale '22 ig: kinsalehues Occupied Tongva Land (LA) kinsalehueston.com Joined February 2017 This account's Tweets are protected. nonbinary people of color, especially indigenous folks, to share their art, receive feedback, connect with each His work has ranged from winning and defeating. KH: Yeah. This is the final week to submit your applications for SJLF's 2023 Fellowship Class! I feel like its the perfect next step for me as This past spring break, Mabelle Hueston led 13 members of the St. Margarets community on a seven-day trip to Navajo Mountain. And so Changing Womxn Collective is a digital Kinsale, who lives in Corona del Mar and attends St. Margaret's Episcopal School in San Juan Capistrano, said she has been a poet since she was in second grade. As a student at Yale University, her approach to amplifying marginalized voices . I cherish. privilege to have grown my platform, and having people who want to listen to what I have to say, and my art and Ill admit that it wasnt my ideal place to have the talk. A Soft Place to Land by Janae Marks, Narrated by Imani Parks For her entire life, Joy has lived in the same house. struggling and Im tired and I cant come up with a metaphor. A student at Yale University, Kinsale Hueston is well-known for her poetry, much of which focuses on her personal story as a Navajo woman.She has won multiple awards for her writing, including three National Scholastic Gold Medals for poetry, the Yale Young Native Storytellers Award for Spoken Word/Storytelling and in 2017-2018, she was named a National Student Poet. #triallawyers #differencemakers #environmental, Have you ever run across an old photo of yourself and found inspiration or a refreshed perspective? The poet, activist, and editor is tethered strongly to community. With my daughter set to graduate from Yale in 24, I too would be most proud of a Character award over academic. I feel a responsibility to the people who came before me who sacrificed so much for me; as an To learn more or opt-out, visit, For the best experience, please turn your device. My familys own home community, Naatsisn, in southern Utah, has only one medicine man: my great-uncle. Heres how Yale students can help through Yale Together. I had little interest in government, especially tribal politics that were often tainted with legacies of corruption and policy dead ends, but working for Ethel was different. The National Student Poets Program has provided such an amazing opportunity for me to share my work and continue to develop my voice, Kinsale said. TIME Magazines February 2019 issue on The Art of Optimism., College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational (CUPSI), Office of Public Affairs & Communications. 4.49K subscribers Kinsale Hueston is a student at Yale University, recognized widely for her work as a poet, much of which orbits around her personal and familial history as a Navajo woman. The curfew, enacted two months ago, was extended by President Jonathan Nez to grassroots organizers and volunteers, in effect stalling relief efforts from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. each day, and on. I kept it very private at first, and it was my own thing. I love reading it, dissecting it, just kind of immersing myself in it because its so complex and yet so simple, she said by phone Friday from Washington, D.C., where she and her fellow poets are being feted. Yale University kinsalehueston.com Joined February 2017. We didnt even know you were doing Contact her at kinsale.hueston@yale.edu. Kinsale has received other fellowships and residencies from Girlfriend Collective, Voices of the West/Torrey House Press, Vermont Studio Center (2023), Bears Ears National Monument/ Utah Din Bikeyah, Aspen Institute, and First Peoples Funds Collective Spirit Fund. Wonderful accomplishment. AS: When it comes to poetry, why do you write? This is how I write. Were having a spotlight on badass women of color who do amazing things in their communities. KH: Yes, at school. kinsale @KinsaleHueston din/navajo urban ndn & award-winning poet from california. Kinsale Hueston, founder of Changing Womxn Collective, "an arts mag by & for all BIPOC women & non-binary folks who feel comfortable in a space centering women," is a poet and 2020 Cultural. In addition to demonstrating and fueling her deep interest in social justice, her wordcraft has earned the 17-year-old the honor of being one of the best young poets in the country this year as one of five National Student Poets. my aunts and my grandmother and my mother, or my siblings, my dad, my friends, the other young artists and Kinsale has served as a National Student Poet, appointed by the Library of Congress and the President's Committee on the Arts & Humanities, and she is currently an inaugural Indigenous Nations Poets Fellow.