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"Indiginerds: Tales from Modern Indigenous Life," with Editor Alina Pete

Comic anthology "Indiginerds: Tales from Modern Indigenous Life" debuts on August 27, 2024! The Prince George’s County Office of Human Rights and the Prince George’s County Memorial Library System present a conversation with "Indiginerds" editor Alina Pete about this important addition to the comics landscape.

“First Nations culture is living, vibrant, and evolving, and generations of Indigenous kids have grown up with pop culture creeping inexorably into our lives. From gaming to social media, pirate radio to garage bands, Star Trek to D&D, and missed connections at the pow wow, Indigenous culture is so much more than how it’s usually portrayed. "Indiginerds" is here to celebrate those stories!

Featuring an all-Indigenous creative team, INDIGNERDS is an exhilarating anthology collecting 11 stories about Indigenous people balancing traditional ways of knowing with modern pop culture. Includes work by Alina Pete, PJ Underwood, Kameron White, Rhael McGregor, and many more. (Iron Circus Comics)

Alina Pete is a nehiyaw artist and writer from Little Pine First Nation in Saskatchewan. They grew up urban but spent summers wandering in the Qu’Appelle Valley with their cousins from Cowessess First Nation. Alina is best known for their Aurora Award–winning comics, but they also write short stories and poems, and their work has been featured in several Indigenous comic anthologies. They are the creator and editor of the comics anthology "Indiginerds: Tales from Modern Indigenous Life." Alina lives on unceded Kwantlen, Katzie, Semiahmoo and Tsawwassen land with their partner.