2019 One City One Book: Two Spirit Queer Fiction

A Novel

by Whitehead, Joshua

Book - 2018

"You're gonna need a rock and a whole lotta medicine" is a mantra that Jonny Appleseed, a young Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer, repeats to himself in th...Show more "You're gonna need a rock and a whole lotta medicine" is a mantra that Jonny Appleseed, a young Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer, repeats to himself in this vivid and utterly compelling novel. Off the reserve and trying to find ways to live and love in the big city, Jonny becomes a cybersex worker who fetishizes himself in order to make a living. Show less

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Asegi Stories

Cherokee Queer and Two-spirit Memory

by Driskill, Qwo-Li

Book - 2016

In Cherokee Asegi udanto refers to people who either fall outside of men’s and women’s roles or who mix men’s and women’s roles. Asegi, which translates a...Show more In Cherokee Asegi udanto refers to people who either fall outside of men’s and women’s roles or who mix men’s and women’s roles. Asegi, which translates as “strange,” is also used by some Cherokees as a term similar to “queer.” For author Qwo-Li Driskill, asegi provides a means by which to reread Cherokee history in order to listen for those stories rendered “strange” by colonial heteropatriarchy. Show less

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My Woman Card Is Anti-native & Other Two-spirit Truths

A Book of Haikus, Sonnets, and Free Verse Poems

by Tapepechul, Xemiyulu Manibusan

Book - 2018

A book of free verse poems, haikus and sonnets inspired by a conversation with the Legendary Venus Selenite, by the author's love for classical theatre, b...Show more A book of free verse poems, haikus and sonnets inspired by a conversation with the Legendary Venus Selenite, by the author's love for classical theatre, by her connection to her community, and by her experiences navigating eurocentrism in medicine & social life. Show less

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Love Beyond Body, Space, and Time

An Indigenous LGBT Sci-fi Anthology

Book - 2016

A collection of indigenous science fiction and urban fantasy focusing on LGBT and two-spirit characters. These stories range from a transgender woman tryi...Show more A collection of indigenous science fiction and urban fantasy focusing on LGBT and two-spirit characters. These stories range from a transgender woman trying an experimental transition medication to young lovers separated through decades and meeting far in their own future. These are stories of machines and magic, love, and self-love. Show less

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Becoming Two-spirit

Gay Identity and Social Acceptance in Indian Country

by Gilley, Brian Joseph

Book - 2006

The Two-Spirit man occupies a singular place in Native American culture, balancing the male and the female spirit even as he tries to blend gay and Native...Show more The Two-Spirit man occupies a singular place in Native American culture, balancing the male and the female spirit even as he tries to blend gay and Native identity. The accompanying ambiguities of gender and culture come into vivid relief in the powerful and poignant Becoming Two-Spirit, the first book to take an in-depth look at contemporary American Indian gender diversity. Show less

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Drowning in Fire

by Womack, Craig S.

Book - 2001

As a young boy growing up within the Muskogee Creek Nation in rural Oklahoma, Josh experiences a yearning for something he cannot tame. Quiet and skinny a...Show more As a young boy growing up within the Muskogee Creek Nation in rural Oklahoma, Josh experiences a yearning for something he cannot tame. Quiet and skinny and shy, he feels out of place, at once inflamed and ashamed by his attraction to other boys. Driven by a need to understand himself and his history, Josh struggles to reconcile the conflicting voices he hears—from the messages of sin and scorn of the non-Indian Christian churches his parents attend in order to assimilate, to the powerful stories of his older Creek relatives, which have been the center of his upbringing, memory, and ongoing experience. Show less

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Mohawk Trail

by Brant, Beth

Book - 1985

This collection of stories, poems, and autobiographical annecdotes deal with the author's several families--those connected by blood, gayness, and members...Show more This collection of stories, poems, and autobiographical annecdotes deal with the author's several families--those connected by blood, gayness, and membership in the urban working class. Brant was born in the Tyendinaga reservation in Ontario and is a Mohawk writer. Show less

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The Cherokee Rose

A Novel of Gardens and Ghosts

by Miles, Tiya

Book - 2015

This luminous but highly accessible work examines a little-known aspect of America's past slaveholding by Southern Creeks and Cherokees and its legacy in ...Show more This luminous but highly accessible work examines a little-known aspect of America's past slaveholding by Southern Creeks and Cherokees and its legacy in the lives of three young women who are drawn to the Georgia plantation where scenes of extreme cruelty and equally extraordinary compassion once played out. Show less

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Nature Poem

by Pico, Tommy

eBook - 2017

"Nature Poem" follows Teebs—a young, queer, American Indian poet—who can’t bring himself to write a nature poem. For the reservation-born, urban...Show more "Nature Poem" follows Teebs—a young, queer, American Indian poet—who can’t bring himself to write a nature poem. For the reservation-born, urban-dwelling hipster, the exercise feels stereotypical, reductive, and boring. He hates nature. But Teebs gradually learns how to interpret constellations through his own lens, along with human nature, sexuality, language, music, and Twitter. Even while he reckons with manifest destiny and genocide and centuries of disenfranchisement, he learns how to have faith in his own voice. Show less

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Fire Song

by Jones, Adam Garnet

Book - 2018

Shane is still reeling from the suicide of his kid sister, Destiny. How could he have missed the fact that she was so sad? He tries to share his grief wit...Show more Shane is still reeling from the suicide of his kid sister, Destiny. How could he have missed the fact that she was so sad? He tries to share his grief with his girlfriend, Tara, but she’s too concerned with her own needs to offer him much comfort. What he really wants is to be able to turn to the one person on the rez whom he loves—his friend, David. Show less

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The Woman Who Owned the Shadows

by Allen, Paula Gunn

Book - 1983

This novel is an example of a Native American woman's struggle to find purpose in her life within several different minorities. These minorities include being a woman, a lesbian and a Native American. This novel is an example of a Native American woman's struggle to find purpose in her life within several different minorities. These minorities include being a woman, a lesbian and a Native American. Show less

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A Two-spirit Journey

The Autobiography of A Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder

by Chacaby, Ma-Nee

Book - 2016

"A Two-Spirit Journey" is Ma-Nee Chacaby’s extraordinary account of her life as an Ojibwa-Cree lesbian. From her early, often harrowing memories...Show more "A Two-Spirit Journey" is Ma-Nee Chacaby’s extraordinary account of her life as an Ojibwa-Cree lesbian. 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. Show less

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Holy Wild

by Benaway, Gwen

Book - 2018

This collection explores the complexities of being an Indigenous trans women in expansive lyric poems. Benaway holds up the Indigenous trans body as a site of struggle, liberation, and beauty. This collection explores the complexities of being an Indigenous trans women in expansive lyric poems. Benaway holds up the Indigenous trans body as a site of struggle, liberation, and beauty. Show less

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