Queer Indigenous Studies: Critical Interventions in Theory, Politics, and LiteratureQwo-Li Driskill ÒThis book is an imagining.Ó So begins this collection examining critical, Indigenous-centered approaches to understanding gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, and Two-Spirit (GLBTQ2) lives and communities and the creative implications of queer theory in Native studies. This book is not so much a manifesto as it is a dialogueÑa Òwriting in conversationÓÑamong a luminous group of scholar-activists revisiting the history of gay and lesbian studies in Indigenous communities while forging a path for Indigenouscentered theories and methodologies. The bold opening to Queer Indigenous Studies invites new dialogues in Native American and Indigenous studies about the directions and implications of queer Indigenous studies. The collection notably engages Indigenous GLBTQ2 movements as alliances that also call for allies beyond their bounds, which the co-editors and contributors model by crossing their varied identities, including Native, trans, straight, non-Native, feminist, Two-Spirit, mixed blood, and queer, to name just a few. Rooted in the Indigenous Americas and the Pacific, and drawing on disciplines ranging from literature to anthropology, contributors to Queer Indigenous Studies call Indigenous GLBTQ2 movements and allies to center an analysis that critiques the relationship between colonialism and heteropatriarchy. By answering critical turns in Indigenous scholarship that center Indigenous epistemologies and methodologies, contributors join in reshaping Native studies, queer studies, transgender studies, and Indigenous feminisms. Based on the reality that queer Indigenous people Òexperience multilayered oppression that profoundly impacts our safety, health, and survival,Ó this book is at once an imagining and an invitation to the reader to join in the discussion of decolonizing queer Indigenous research and theory and, by doing so, to partake in allied resistance working toward positive change. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Performing Queer Indigenous Critiques | 22 |
What Can NonNatives Learn from | 23 |
Decolonizing the Queer Native Body and Recovering | 31 |
The Heteronormativity | 41 |
Mixing Race and Sexuality in Colonial | 66 |
On Tagaloa Jesus and Nafanua | 81 |
Cherokee TwoSpirit People | 97 |
TwoSpirit Mens Sexual Survivance against the Inequality | 123 |
Outland Cherokees | 155 |
The Erotics of Sovereignty | 172 |
Gregory Scofields Cree Métis Stories | 190 |
Imagining an Emancipatory | 211 |
Works Cited | 223 |
About the Contributors | 239 |
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