Two-Spirit/2S and Indigiqueer Voices for all ages, from the Multcolib Indigenous TeamLike this list

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• A Body More Tolerable

  Poems

  simpson, jaye,

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  jaye simpson (Oji-Cree Saulteaux, Sapotaweyak Cree Nation) shares a new set of poetry exploring Indigenous grief, trans identity, and frustrated desires in ways that reject perception and traditional manifestations of girlhood.

• Being Thunder

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  Follows Sherenté (Narrangansett), a Two-Spirit Genderqueer teenager from Rhode Island as they perform traditional dance, including women's fancy shawl, at annual pow wows and experience opposition from multiple angles.

• Circle of Love

  Gray Smith, Monique, 1968-

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  Two-Spirit creators Gray Smith (Cree) and Neidhardt (Diné) share through the perspective of a child named Molly a intertribal community center and all the people there she knows and loves and how they make her feel.

• Fire Song

  Jones, Adam Garnet,

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  Teen fiction novelization of a film with the same title, written by Jones (Cree/Métis). An Anishinaabe teen named Shane grapples with feelings for and making plans with his boyfriend David while dealing with losses and obstacles faced by him, his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Raven's Ribbons

  Spillett, Tasha, 1988-

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  Spillett (Cree and Trinidadian) and Ramirez (Saginaw Chippewa) share the story of Raven, who dreams of wearing his own ribbon skirt to a round dance like others, and asks his grandmother if she would make him one of his own.

• Somacultural Liberation : An Indigenous, Two-Spirit Somatic Guide to Integrating Cultural Experiences Toward Freedom

  Kuhn, Roger

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  Kuhn (Poarch Creek) discusses Two-Spirit perspectives and experiences, and the ways viewing Two-Spirit bodies and minds through a somacultural lens can help us better understand how dominant culture informs and misinforms our relationship to it.

• The Mahele of Our Bodies

  Nā Moʻolelo Kūpuna māhū/LGBTQ

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  Shares life histories of Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) Elders who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or māhū (LGBTQM), revealing the way they experienced overlapping Indigenous and LGBTQM identities and Hawaiʻi's unwritten queer…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Between the Pipes

  McLeod, Albert,

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  Teen hockey player Chase learns more about himself and his identity in the face of prejudice, homophobia, and toxic masculinity. With the help of an Elder, and a Two-Spirit mentor, can Chase find the strength to be proud of who he is?

• The Ribbon Skirt

  Mukwa, Cameron,

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  Ten-year-old Anang who wants to make a ribbon skirt for an upcoming powwow. Anang is Two-Spirit and nonbinary and doesn't know what others will think of them wearing a ribbon skirt, but they're determined to follow their heart's desire.

• The Dawnhounds

  Stronach, Sascha,

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  The first book in Stronach's (Maori) queer, Maori-inspired fantasy series about a police officer brought back to life with a mysterious new power, who is tasked with protecting her city from an insidious evil threatening to destroy it.

• One Bead at a Time

  a Memoir

  Little Thunder, Beverly,

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  This oral memoir of Beverly Little Thunder (Lakota), a Two-Spirit Elder from Standing Rock, recounts her life dreams and work with Indigenous and non-Indigenous women across Turtle Island, and raise political and spiritual awareness for Indigenous…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• It Was Never Going to Be Okay

  simpson, jaye,

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  simpson (Oji-Cree Saulteaux) explores 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.

• Passing Through a Prairie Country

  a Novel

  Staples, Dennis E.,

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  Fleeing a breakup, Marion Lafournier, an Ojibwe man, seeks solace in the slot machines. Meanwhile, Glenn Nielan, only recently out of the closet and an aspiring documentarian, hopes to capture the faces of the Ojibwe land while experiencing the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Indigiqueerness

  a Conversation About Storytelling

  Whitehead, Joshua (Writer),

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  Part dialogue, part collage, and part memoir Whitehead (Oji-Cree, Peguis Nation) contemplates the role of theory, Indigenous language, queerness, and fantastical worlds in all his artistic pursuits.

• Jonny Appleseed

  a Novel

  Whitehead, Joshua (Writer),

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  Whitehead (Oji-Cree, Peguis Nation) tells the story of Jonny Appleseed, a young Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer individual who becomes a cybersex worker who fetishizes himself in order to make a living.

• Fire Song

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  Follows the story of Shane who is grappling with feelings for and making plans with his boyfriend David while dealing with losses and obstacles faced by him, his family, and his Anishinaabe community on the reservation.

• To Belong Here

  a New Generation of Queer, Trans and Two-spirit Appalachian Writers

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  To Belong Here delves into how queer, trans, and Two-Spirit Appalachian people make sense of life in the mountains, and calls for a more inclusive future in Appalachia--one where everyone can thrive.

• A History of My Brief Body

  Belcourt, Billy-Ray,

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  Belcourt's (Cree, Driftpile First Nation) debut memoir invites readers to unpack and explore complexity and contradiction: a legacy of colonial violence and the joy that flourishes in spite of it; first loves and first loves lost; sexual exploration…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Love After the End

  An Anthology of Two-Spirit & Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction

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  An anthology of queer Indigenous speculative fiction from new and emerging Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer writers from across Turtle Island.

• Full-metal Indigiqueer

  Poems

  Whitehead, Joshua (Writer),

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