During the COVID-19 pandemic, award winning poet and artist Arielle Twist started to stream on Twitch as @MadameJuicyTTV. Responding to the isolation trans Indigenous women experienced during the pandemic, and the lack of representation of trans Indigenous women in the Twitch community, Twist’s channel created a space for connection around the horror games she played on her channel.
On Valentine’s Day 2021, Digital Kinship Lab co-hosted a Twitch stream with @MadameJuicyTTV featuring Indigenous writers. The NDN Literati Massacre was a way to witness the joy that NDN gamers are finding together in virtual worlds like Twitch. During a stream of the horror game Dead By Daylight, Miss Juicy also interviewed the Indigenous literary figures she hosted about horror (who played as “survivors”), while she played as “the killer.”
Taglines promoting the stream on social media included: “We’ve survived CanLit, can we survive this?” and “Will they be the last them?”
Jas M. Morgan 