ENGL 603
Special Topics in English Literature
Winter 2027 · Indigiqueer Matters
Topics
- Two-spirit and Indigiqueer literature
- Indigenous gender and sexuality
- Decolonial queer theory
- Intergenerational storytelling
Readings
- Possible reading: jaye simpson, A Body More Tolerable
- Possible reading: Arielle Twist, Dissociate/Disintegrate
- Possible reading: Smoki Sumac, you are enough: love poems for the end of the world
- Possible reading: Chrystos, Not Vanishing
- Possible reading: Beth Brant, Food & Spirit
- Possible reading: Connie Fife, Beneath the Naked Sun
- Possible reading: Billy-Ray Belcourt, A Minor Chorus
- Possible reading: Waawaate Fobister, Agokwe
- Possible reading: Gregory Scofield, Witness, I Am
- Possible reading: Joshua Whitehead, full-metal indiqueer
- Possible reading: Billy-Ray Belcourt, “A Poltergeist Manifesto”
- Possible reading: Mark Rifkin, When Did the Indians Become Straight?
- Possible reading: Teagen and Freeman, eds, Queer Kinship: Race, Belonging, Sex, Form
- Possible reading: Alex Wilson, “Our Coming In Stories: Cree Identity, Body sovereignty, and Gender Self-Determination”
- Possible reading: Meyercook and Labelle, “Two-Spirit organizing in Montréal”
- Possible reading: Thomas and Jacobs, “‘...And We Are Still Here’: From Berdache to Two-Spirit People”
- Possible reading: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, “Queer Indigenous Normativity”
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- Official course page ↗Winter 2027
- Departmental seminar description with reading information when supplied; not a full syllabus. Scheduled Winter 2027. Both primary and secondary lists are explicitly possible, not confirmed required books.