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"This book is an imagining." 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
dialogue--a "writing in conversation"--among 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 "experience
multilayered oppression that profoundly impacts our safety, health,
and survival," 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.
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