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Tenille K. Campbell

Freelance contributor

Tenille K. Campbell is a Dene/Métis artist from English River First Nation in Saskatchewan. She completed her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia and is working on a doctoral degree in Indigenous literature at the University of Saskatchewan. Her debut poetry collection, #IndianLovePoems (Signature Editions) is a celebratory, slyly funny and bluntly honest take on the erotic side of contemporary Indigenous life. She resides in Saskatoon.

    Latest from Tenille K. Campbell

    First Person

    I confronted my misconceptions about being Indigenous by embracing beadwork

    Tenille Campbell says she never saw beadwork becoming a part of how she expressed herself, but she has now embraced the practice.
    Canada Saskatchewan
    First Person

    'Chokecherry eyes and frybread thighs': Fatphobia in Indian Country

    We end up with a trope: a non-descript-but-always-sexy Indigenous woman offering herself up like property or land, like something to be consumed, to be eaten, to be seen as not human and therefore not worthy of common respect. 
    Canada Saskatchewan
    Point of View

    I'm a sex writer who's not having sex

    Abstinence hasn’t been about personal growth and growing up; it wasn’t about finding myself. I’ve always known who I am. It was about redefining my boundaries; not just in sex but in relationships, in my art, in defining how I allowed myself to be treated.
    Canada Saskatoon