Poet unpacks the baggage of being light-skinned in new collection

Poet unpacks the baggage of being light-skinned in new collection

What Shade of Brown is a powerful and emotional collection of poetry and narrative prose in which Nehiyawak (Cree)-Métis writer John Brady McDonald examines what it means to be a light-skinned Indigenous person “and the baggage that comes with that, the pain that that entails.”