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• Reclaiming Two-Spirits

  Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal & Sovereignty in Native America

  Smithers, Gregory D., 1974-

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  A sweeping history of Indigenous traditions of gender and sexuality that decolonizes North America's past and reveals how Two-Spirit people are reclaiming their place in Native nations

• Somacultural Liberation

  An Indigenous, Two-spirit Somatic Guide to Integrating Our Cultural Experiences Towards Freedom

  Kuhn, Roger,

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  Two-Spirit Indigiqueer psychotherapist and cultural theorist Dr. Roger Kuhn illuminates the ways our bodies offer portals to our own liberation

• A Two-spirit Journey

  the Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder

  Chacaby, Ma-Nee, 1950-

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  "A Two-Spirit Journey" is Ma-Nee Chacaby's extraordinary account of her life as an Ojibwa-Cree lesbian. From her early, often harrowing memories of life and abuse in a remote Ojibwa community riven by poverty and alcoholism, Chacaby's story is one…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Minor Chorus

  a Novel

  Belcourt, Billy-Ray,

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  An unnamed narrator abandons his unfinished thesis and returns to northern Alberta in search of what eludes him: the shape of the novel he yearns to write, an autobiography of his rural hometown, the answers to existential questions about family,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Jonny Appleseed

  a Novel

  Whitehead, Joshua (Writer)

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  Off the reserve and trying to find ways to live and love in the big city, Jonny becomes a cybersex worker who fetishises himself in order to make a living. Self-ordained as an NDN glitter princess, Jonny has one week before he must return to the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• NDN Coping Mechanisms

  Notes From the Field

  Belcourt, Billy-Ray,

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  In the follow-up to his Griffin Poetry Prize-winning collection, This Wound is a World, Billy-Ray Belcourt aims more of an anthropological eye at the contours of NDN and queer social worlds to spot the much that is left unsaid when we look only to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Love After the End

  An Anthology of Two-spirit & Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction

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  A bold and breathtaking anthology of queer Indigenous speculative fiction, edited by the author of Jonny Appleseed. This exciting and groundbreaking fiction anthology showcases a number of new and emerging 2SQ (Two-Spirit and queer) Indigenous…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Surviving the City. Vol. 2, From the Roots Up

  Spillett-Sumner, Tasha, 1988-

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  Dez's grandmother has passed away. Grieving, and with nowhere else to go, she's living in a group home. On top of everything else, Dez is navigating a new relationship and coming into her identity as a Two-Spirit person. Miikwan is crushing on the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A History of My Brief Body

  a Memoir

  Belcourt, Billy-Ray

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  A slim but electrifying debut memoir about the preciousness and precariousness of queer Indigenous life. Opening with a tender letter to his kokum and memories of his early life on the Driftpile First Nation, Billy-Ray Belcourt delivers a searing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Making Love With the Land

  Essays

  Whitehead, Joshua,

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  In his first work of non-fiction, Joshua Whitehead explores Indigeneity, queerness, and the relationships between body, language, and land through a variety of genres (essay, memoir, notes, and confessions).

• Disintegrate/dissociate

  Poems

  Twist, Arielle, 1994-

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  Weaving together a past made murky by uncertainty and a present which exists in multitudes, Arielle Twist poetically navigates through what it means to be an Indigenous trans woman, discovering the possibilities of a hopeful future and a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Indigiqueerness

  a Conversation About Storytelling

  Whitehead, Joshua (Writer),

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  Beginning with memories of his childhood poetry and prose and travelling through the library of his life, Whitehead contemplates the role of theory, Indigenous language, queerness, and fantastical worlds in all his artistic pursuits.

• One Bead at a Time

  a Memoir

  Little Thunder, Beverly,

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  One Bead at a Time is the oral memoir of Beverly Little Thunder, a two-spirit Lakota Elder from Standing Rock, who has lived most of her life in service to Indigenous and non-Indigenous women in vast areas of both the United States and Canada.

• Full-metal Indigiqueer

  Poems / Joshua Whitehead

  Whitehead, Joshua, 1989-

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  This poetry collections focuses on a hybridized Indigiqueer Trickster character named Zoa who brings together the organic (the protozoan) and the technologic (the binaric) in order to re-beautify and re-member queer Indigeneity.

• This Wound Is a World

  Poems

  Belcourt, Billy-Ray,

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  Part manifesto, part memoir, This Wound is a World is an invitation to 'cut a hole in the sky to world inside.' Billy-Ray Belcourt issues a call to turn to love and sex to understand how Indigenous peoples shoulder sadness and pain like theirs…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fire Song

  Jones, Adam Garnet,

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  Shane is still reeling from the suicide of his kid sister, Destiny. How could he have missed the fact that she was so sad? He tries to share his grief with his girlfriend, Tara, but she's too concerned with her own needs to offer him much comfort.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Two-Spirit Acts

  Queer Indigenous Performances

  Fobister, Waawaate

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  In this collection of short but powerful two-spirit plays, characters dispel conventional notions of gender and sexuality while celebrating Indigenous understandings. With a refreshing spin, the plays touch on topics of desire, identity, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• awâsis – kinky and dishevelled

  Halfe, Louise B.

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  A gender-fluid trickster character leaps from Cree stories to inhabit this raucous and rebellious new work by award-winning poet Louise Bernice Halfe. There are no pronouns in Cree for gender; awâsis (which means illuminated child) reveals herself…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• day/break

  Benaway, Gwen

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  Gwen Benaway's collection of work, explores the everyday poetics of the trans feminine body. Through intimate experiences and conceptualizations of trans life, day/break asks what it means to be a trans woman, both within the text and out in the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• It Was Never Going to Be Okay

  simpson, jaye

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  It was never going to be okay is a collection of poetry and prose exploring the intimacies of understanding intergenerational trauma, Indigeneity and queerness, while addressing Urban Indigenous Diaspora and breaking down the limitations of sexual…Read moreRead more of this annotation