Book description
Lambda Literary Award winner
This exciting and groundbreaking fiction anthology showcases a number of new and emerging 2SQ (Two-Spirit and queer Indigenous) writers from across Turtle Island. These visionary authors show how queer Indigenous communities can bloom and thrive through utopian narratives that detail the vivacity and strength of 2SQnessâŠ
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Among the more insidious and tragic consequences of colonialism and its assimilationist policies is the eradication of indigenous conventions around gender and sexuality. In many indigenous communities, gender and sexuality do not operate in as binary as a fashion as they do in European societies.
Highlighting these historical and contemporary possibilities for what we might call queer identities (or âtwo-spiritâ in some communities), is Joshua Whitheadâs breathtaking âIndigiqueerâ anthology, Love After the End. Contributors amend the provocation, the future is indigenous, to consider how the future is also queer or indigiqueer.Â
Weaving between the traditional and the contemporary, the pastâŠ
From E.G.'s list on Indigenous futurism.
In one of the stories from this exceptional anthology, âHow to Survive the Apocalypse for Native Girls,â Kai Minosh Pyle writes âwe are future ancestors.â As the title suggests, this is a forward-looking anthology which imagines Indigenous worlds after âthe end.â But it is also a book grounded in Two Spirit and Indigiqueer histories, one whose stories remember the historic acceptance and affirmation of queer and genderqueer Indigenous people as they reach toward Indigiqueer liberation.
From Morgan's list on folks seeking genderqueer ancestry.
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Magical realism meets the magic of Christmas in this mix of Jewish, New Testament, and Santa storiesâall reenacted in an urban psychiatric hospital!
On locked ward 5C4, Josh, a patient with many similarities to Jesus, is hospitalized concurrently with Nick, a patient with many similarities to Santa. The two argueâŠ
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