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Performed at the Genderfuck Show. Halifax Pride 2017
spread from: Photos of Queer Life on a Sprawling Native American Reservation
captions, top to bottom left to right:
Lady Shug, the 2016 Miss New Mexico Pride winner, and a prominent voice in the Navajo Nation’s LGBTQ community.
Sharnell Paul, a transgender teen, at her home with her horses in Dennehotso, Arizona. Paul, 19, was recently removed from the “Women of the Navajo” calendar after someone outed her to the publisher.
Buffalo Barbie at home with her dogs in Teec Nos Pos, Arizona.
Lola De La Hoya at a friend’s where she often takes refuge from the criticism of her parents.
De La Hoya getting ready for a drag performance at Gay Prom, one of the few events of the year aimed at Navajo LGBTQ people.
Michelle Sherma and her grandmother live together. Her grandma helped Sherman’s parents understand traditional Navajo notions of gender and their daughter’s identity.
Alethea Arnaquq-Baril’s Aviliaq: Entwined is a short romance film set in the arctic during the 1950s. In the film two Inuit women, Ulluriaq and Viivi, try to stay together as lovers even after Viivi gets married. The two women convince Pitsiulaaq, Viivi’s husband to take Ulluriaq as a second wife so they may stay together as lovers, arguing that before colonization Inuit could have polygamous relationships.
Decolonizing The Queer Native Body in Alethea Arnaquq-Bari’s film, Aviliaq (Entwined): The Embargo Project @ Reel Reservations by Lucy Hach
A critical evaluation of Colonization as it affects the bodies of queer indigenous people in relation to the film Aviliaq : Entwined
Trailer for the Embargo Project.
Five Indigenous women filmmakers from across Canada challenge one another to make a film under a set of restrictions tailored to each filmmaker.
Distributed by V Tape
Notable short for queer Inuit representation is Aviliaq : Entwined by Alethea Arnaquq-Bari (Inuit)
Trailer for Two Soft Things, Two Hard Things.
Documentary about queer identities within Inuit communities (Nunavut)
Directed by non indigenous people, in cosultation with community. Directed by Michael Yerxa and Mark Kenneth Woods
https://twosofttwohard.com/
Two Spirits, One Voice, an open expression of two spirit experiences among Anishinaabek across Northern Ontario
Introductory to two spirit identity by Dr. Lindsay Doe, YouTube channel Sexplanations.
Life & Work by Carmen Robertson
A summary of the life and work of Anishinaabe painter, Norval Morriseau. Featuring depictions of his queer erotic work.
Joey Criddle is a Two Spirit man fighting with other LGBTQ Native Americans to reclaim the place of honor that many Two Spirits once held prior to colonization. The film follows Joey as he leads parallel lives - one as a co-director of the Two Spirit Society of Denver and the other as a father attending the Mississippi wedding of his Pentecostal son. Joey's words bridge the gap between the closeted man he was in Mississippi and the Two Spirit activist he is today. Ruth Fertig 2007 22 min. USA
Trickster now took an elk liver and made a vulva from it. Then he took some elk’s kidneys and made breasts from them. Finally he put on a woman’s dress. In this dress his friends enclosed him very firmly. The dresses he was using were those that the woman who had taken him for a raccoon had given him. He now stood there, transformed into a very pretty woman indeed. Then he let the fox have intercourse with him and make him pregnant, then the jaybird and finally, the nit. After that he proceeded to the village. Now, at the end of the village, lived an old woman and she immediately addressed him saying, “ My granddaughter, what is your purpose in traveling around like this? Certainly it is with some object in view that you are traveling!” And Trickster assured her it was, and replied, “Grandmother, I have come to court the chiefs son.” “Alright, my grand-daughter, I will inform the people about it. ” Then the old woman went outside and shouted, Ho! Ho! There is someone here who has come to court the chiefs son.” This, at least, is what the old woman seemed to be saying. Then the chief said to his daughters, “Ho! This clearly is what this woman wants and the reason for her coming; do, my 72 daughters, go and bring your sister-in-law here. ” Then they went after her. She certainly was a very handsome woman. The chief’s son liked her very much. Immediately they prepared dried corn for her and they boiled slit bear-ribs. That was why Trickster was getting married, of course. When this food was ready they put it in a dish, cooled it, and placed it in front of Trickster. He devoured it at once. There she (Trickster) remained. Not long after that, Trickster became pregnant. The Chief’s son was very happy about the fact that he was to become a father. Not long after that the Trickster gave birth to a boy. Then again he became pregnant and gave birth to another boy. Finally, for the third time he became pregnant and gave birth to a third boy
When Two Worlds Collide: Norval Morrisseau and the Erotic , pp.71-72 https://curve.carleton.ca/system/files/etd/b3d517fe-c62b-4234-a929-1b1a601b0180/etd_pdf/35b6b97b74fb37b159b4edb5c5a51a8f/mcgeough-whentwoworldscollidenorvalmorrisseauandthe.pdf
A critical examination of the erotic works of Norval Morriseau from a Feminist perspective. Written by Michelle McGeough
The paper examines Morriseau’s work through examinations of Norvals depictions of female nude, male nude, and the alternative. Each critical understanding is produced from a settler perspective interspersed with Anishinaabe oral tradition and research. It is self aware of it’s own problematic assumptions and actively attempts to reconcile a feminist perspective with the process of decolonization.
San Francisco’s Two Spirit Powwow.
Examines gender identity, (including politics on style of dance each person is permitted to dnace in) legacies of colonization, and it’s impact on ceremony within indigenous practices.
Telus Queer Places Series, focusing on Massey Whiteknife/ ICEIS Rain, Two spirit musician, drag performer, and self made millionaire in the Oil Patch.
Topics include ethics on working in the oil sands as an Indigenous person,
The impact of drag as a freedom to express and the possibility of transition and gender identity.
trailer for North Mountain, Directed by Bretten Hannam
Nova Scotian thriller action film focusing on relationship between two Mi’kmaq men.
“ Winner of the Best Feature Film at the Screen Nova Scotia Awards, North Mountain is a Two-Spirit action thriller filmed in the snowy winterlands of Annapolis County, Nova Scotia, by rising Métis filmmaker Bretten Hannam. Young hunter Wolf (played by the gorgeous Justin Rain) finds Crane (acclaimed actor Glen Gould), a mysterious older fugitive wounded in the woods, and nurses him back to health. Wolf becomes embroiled in Crane’s past as a slew of sideways cops seek revenge. Billed asBrokeback Mountain meets Rambo, the film experiments with genre, fluidly taking shape as Wolf and Crane hold their ground while their collective pasts return to haunt them amid the terror of the present. Filled with queer hunter brawls, bloody hatchets and arrows, and brave plot twists, North Mountain is a refreshing, Tarantino-esque action thriller rimmed with threads of romance. “ via Vancouver Queer Film Festival 2016
“ This short documentary presents the empowering story of Rodney "Geeyo" Poucette's struggle against prejudice in the Indigenous community as a two spirited person (gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered). Geeyo registers as a dancer in the Kamloopa Powwow under the Jingle Dress category (normally reserved for women). Deeply humiliated by a misguided elder, Geeyo is reminded by his grandmother that two spirited people were once respected and honoured for their spiritual gifts. Geeyo eventually makes a triumphant return to the powwow arena, realizing that the only way to change people's minds is to walk proudly while being true to one's spirit.”
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Directed by Sharon A. Desjarlais
Questions of gender identity occur and misgendering people portrayed. Movie description does not tie filmmaker or main subject with indigenous nation identity.
Waawaate Fobister - Performance Artist.
Piece is Agokwe, focusing on Anishinaabe storytelling/ queer depictions. Play focused on effects of colonization on indigenous mindsets and incorporates Anishinaabe values, characters (like Nanabush/ Nanabozho) and language.
Full text of Agokwe found in Two-Spirit Acts: Queer Indigenous Performances, Edited by Jean O’hara.
http://www.playwrightscanada.com/index.php/genres/indigenous-drama-1/two-spirit-acts-queer-indigenous-performances.html
Using a virtuoso style partly based on the 19th century American Hudson River School painters, Kent Monkman's work slyly, and often humourously, critiques the way Canadians have treated and depicted Indigenous peoples.
Two Spirit artist, Kent Monkman.
Article covers biography, painted works, depictions of queer indigenous people in paintings,reclamation of Indigenous self- representation, incorporation of the drag persona Miss Chief Eagle Testickle.
Unsettling 150 contributions in Shame and Prejudice: A story of Resilience. Remixs of paintings by Robert Harris and Paul Kane.