Weight of Inheritance

Abstract

Dayna Danger (they/them) is a Two-Spirit, Indigiqueer, Métis-Saulteaux-Polish visual artist, hide tanner, drummer, and beadworker. Working across photography, sculpture, performance, and video, Danger's practice reclaims space and power over society's projections of sexuality and representation, centering women-identified, Two-Spirit, transgender, and non-binary people. The cover art photograph documents Danger's process of crafting a bone scraper from a moose leg bone. Ancestral hide-tanning knowledge passed down through their family and inspired by the traditions of their great-great-grandmother, Marie-Thérèse. The blue rope seen in the image connects the practical work of hide tanning to ceremony, symbolizing the living continuity of Indigenous knowledge that colonialism once tried to erase.