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 Ĺutsel 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 mermaids and their experience with gender, and pushing against it, but what I remember most was just being pulled into this underwater world they were creating […] I’m enamoured. […] I’m just in this world and I want to know more about how to do that myself. That was my biggest question coming out of it, was not just ‘that was amazing’ but ‘how would I do something like that?’”When Bige started taking creative writing classes a year later, they