A Queer Indigenous Gathering

"The artists and scholars within this book creatively combine a Queer Indigenous–rights perspective, teachings with feminist and anti-racist theory and practice, and a call to refuse to submit to settler-colonialism." —Cornel Pewewardy (Comanche/Kiowa), associate professor of political science, University of Central Oklahoma, and coeditor of Unsettling Settler-Colonial Education: The Transformational Indigenous Praxis Model

"A fiercely beautiful love letter and decolonial vision for what Indigenous Queer futurisms can build, dismantle, reconstruct, and revitalize. Dr. Brook Colley has nurtured a transformative genealogy of Queer Indigenous Studies that honors where we have been and centers the voices of those who are ready to envision the world we want to see at a time when we need it the most." —Cutcha Risling Baldy (Hupa/Karuk/Yurok), professor of Native American studies, Cal Poly Humboldt, and author of We Are Dancing for You: Native Feminisms and the Revitalization of Women's Coming-of-Age Ceremonies

"This book is the culmination of incredible work done by incredible people so that future generations can see their Queer Indigenous community as well as be with their Queer Indigenous ancestors through time! The positive impact the Gathering has made will undeniably be felt for many generations!" —Jon Caponetto (Burns Paiute), PhD student, Critical and Sociocultural Studies in Education Program, University of Oregon

"This collection calls readers in, generously sharing the vibrancy of Queer Indigenous creativity across literature, poetry, and art. An abundant collection of voices is woven together across each page, that collectively illustrate thriving and complex Indigenous life. Beautifully written and warmly generous, this book offers an invitation to celebrate the vibrancy of Queer Indigenous creativity. Thriving, honest, and funny as heck." —Lana Lopesi (Sāmoan), assistant professor, Department of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies, University of Oregon, and author of Bloody Woman and False Divides

"Much more than an anthology, A Queer Indigenous Gathering is a profoundly generative creative gift. Experience it and be invited into the beautiful practice of Queer Indigenous kin-making. This book lifts up life-giving voices and visions and creates a space from which multitudes of Queer Indigenous futures will surely be born." —Rebecca J. Dobkins, professor emeritus of anthropology, Willamette University, and author of The Art of Ceremony: Voices of Renewal from Indigenous Oregon

"A Queer Indigenous Gathering is an Indigiqueer zine come to life!—kaleidoscopic, revolutionary, and deeply relational. Across texts, images, and voices, this collection reframes our histories for the present while honoring the Two-Spirit/Indigiqueercestors who came before us. Each piece becomes a relationship: to memory, land, community, one another, and the futures we are creating. This book does more than remember and resist; it makes space for us to thrive." —Ty DeFoe (Ojibwe/Oneida), interdisciplinary artist, storyteller, and shapeshifter