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Read with PRIDE: Two-spirit and Indigiqueer voices, for adults, from Multcolib

These titles are by Indigenous people who identify as two-spirit or LBGQTIA+.

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  • Whitehead boldly shares his story of an Indigenous body in pain and coping with trauma while still nourishing a lust for life in this world.
    Book, 2022Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, 2022. — 814.6 W5925m 2022
  • "This beautiful and devastating book--part tribal history, part lyric and intimate memoir--should be required reading for anyone seeking to learn about California Indian history, past and present." (Novelist)
    Book, 2024Berkeley, California : Heyday, [2024] — 305.80097 M672b 2024
  • A child visits an intertribal community center, and everyone and everything she sees there reminds her that 'love is love'.
    Book, 2024New York, NY : Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2024] — jE GRAYSMITH 2024
  • Spaces Between Us

    Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization

    Morgensen, Scott Lauria
    Morgensen examines the connections of non-Native and Native sexual politics in the United States.
    eBook, 2011Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2011. — Electronic book
  • Indigiqueerness

    a Conversation About Storytelling

    Whitehead, Joshua (Writer),
    Part dialogue, part memoir, Whitehead contemplates the role of theory, Indigenous language, queerness, and fantastical worlds in all his artistic pursuits.
    Book, 2023Athabasca, Alberta : AU Press, [2023] — BIO 818.6 WHITEHEAD 2023
  • This mystery features a two spirit character who is finding her place in the world while trying to get to the bottom of the disappearances of girls, including her sister.
    Book, 2023New York : Berkley, [2023] — FICTION MEDINA 2023
  • Set in a world resembling 18th century North America, this adventure tale bends genre and gender as it tells the story of the struggle for the green world of the Everland, home of the forest-dwelling Kyn.
    Book, 2011Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2011] — FICTION JUSTICE 2011
  • In this novel of Indigenous futurism, Two-Spirit, LGBTQ+, BIPOC, neurodivergent, and disabled characters – survivors of a devastating war – fight to save what’s left of their world.
    eBook, 2022LaVergne : Arsenal Pulp Press, 2022. — Libby ebook
  • 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 understanding as a trans woman.
    Book, 2020Gibsons, BC, Canada : Nightwood Editions, 2020. — 811.6 S6135i 2020
  • Composed as a long text message, this poem asks what happens to a modern, queer indigenous person a few generations after his ancestors were alienated from their language, their religion, and their history.
    Book, 2016Minneapolis : Birds, LLC, 2016. — 811.6 P598i 2016
  • Mamaskatch

    a Cree Coming of Age

    McLeod, Darrel J.,
    In this memoir about the powerful ties of family and culture, the author explores issues including abuse, gender fluidity, and identity.
    Book, 2019Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2019. — BIO 971.20049 MCLEOD 2019
  • Peyakow

    Reclaiming Cree Dignity

    Darrel, McLeod
    A follow up to Mamaskatch, this memoir recounts the author's adult life.
    eBook, 2021LaVergne : Milkweed Editions, 2021. — Libby ebook
  • "Nîtisânak honours blood and chosen kin with equal care. A groundbreaking memoir spanning nations, prairie punk scenes, and queer love stories, it is woven around grief over the loss of their mother...Using cyclical narrative techniques and drawing…
    Book, 2018Montreal, QC : Metonymy Press, 2018. — 306.766 N7366n 2018
  • “Complex, vulnerable emotion is embedded within the specificity of the writing in this dramatic prose debut. Jones avoids clichés of reservation life, humanizing the stories of how his people reconcile the trauma of suicide, missing family members,…
    Book, 2018Toronto ; Berkeley : Annick Press, [2018] — y JONES 2018
  • Part manifesto, part memoir, this book is an invitation into a world of decolonial love and sex in hopes of understanding sadness and pain often shouldered by Indigenous people.
    Book, 2019Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2019. — 811.6 B427p 2019
  • Jonny is a young Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer who becomes a cybersex worker in order to make a living in the city. The author is an Oji-Cree/nehiyaw, Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer member of Peguis First Nation.
    eBook, 2018LaVergne : Arsenal Pulp Press, 2018. — Libby ebook
  • Whitehead is a two-spirit storyteller and academic. This collection of poetry serves to focus and re-center two-spirit Indigenous lives that have been silenced, pushed to the edge, or simply forgotten.
    Book, 2017Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada : Talonbooks, [2017] — 819.16 W5925f 2017
  • Love After the End

    An Anthology of Two-Spirit & Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction

    This groundbreaking anthology of Two-Spirit and queer (2SQ) Indigenous speculative fiction. Through fantastical stories, readers explore themes of resilience, resistance and love in the face of colonialism.
    Book, 2020Vancouver, BC : Arsenal Pulp Press, [2020] — FICTION LOVE 2020
  • The author is a Menominee writer and two-spirit activist who has published various books and poems that explore indigenous civil rights, social justice, and feminism.
    Book, 1993Vancouver : Press Gang Publishers, ©1993. — 811.5 C558i
  • A Two-Spirit Journey

    the Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder

    Chacaby, Ma-Nee, 1950-
    "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 of enduring and ultimately overcoming the social, economic, and health legacies of colonialism."
    Book, 2016Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada : UMP, University of Manitoba Press, [2016] — BIO 306.7663 CHACABY 2016