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INDIGST 6C03

Queer, Two-Spirit, and Trans World-Making

Graduate

Winter 2026 · C01

Topics

  • Haudenosaunee Cosmologies Creation Story Peacemaker Two-Row
  • Leanne Simpson. “Indigenous Queer Normativity.” In As We Have Always Done . 119-144.
  • Wilson, Alex. "N'tacinowin inna nah': Our coming in stories." Canadian Woman Studies (2008). 193-199.
  • My queerness is traditional: How I Embraced My Two-Spirit Identity - FASHION Magazine
  • Nalakwsis - Cree Native Arts & Crafts Association
  • Kai Pyle. "Naming and claiming: recovering Ojibwe and plains Cree two-spirit language." Transgender Studies Quarterly 5.4 (2018): 574-588.
  • Alison Green. “Being Maori, Being Takatapui.” In Honouring our Ancestors . 27-41.
  • Michelle Sylliboy – fish sucker writing
  • Billy-Ray Belcourt. Selections from This Wound is a World & A History of My Brief Body .
  • Billy-Ray Belcourt. To Be Unbodied – Canadian Art .

Readings

  • Making Space for Indigenous Feminisms
    Gina Starblanket · Recommended / optional
  • Honouring our Ancestors: Takatapui, Two-Spirit and Indigenous LGBTQI+ Well-Being
    Leonie Pihama · Recommended / optional
Sources