Joshua Badge sits down with Driftpile Cree Nation writer, poet and scholar Billy-Ray Belcourt for a conversation that covers (among much else) colonialism, revolution, rural life, truth, sex, joy, and his new collection of essays, A History of My Brief Body.

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In Conversation with Billy-Ray Belcourt

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