Shapeshifters Grade Nine-Ten-Eleven-Twelve he can literally make people

he can literally make people come to life in wood

From a story idea by Iskwe and Erin Leslie

Herb Nabigon is associate professor in Native Human Services at Laurentian University

The next night the parents wake and find their son missing

Shapeshifters Grade Nine-Ten-Eleven-Twelve he can literally make peopleShapeshifters, written by Dlani Valin, who is neurodivergent and Mtis with Nehiyaw, Saulteaux, French Canadian and Czech ancestry, explores the cost of finding the perfect mask. Through a lens of urban Mtis experience and neurodivergence, Valin takes on a series of personas as an act of empathy as resistance. Some personas are capitalist mascots like the Starbucks siren, Barbie and the Michelin Man, who confide the hopes and frustrations that lay