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Lehuauakea
Pohākea (The Bursting Forth of Light).
Natural plant dyes and ochre earth pigment on kapa (barkcloth). 21.5 inches H x 40.5 inches W. 2025.
Mele O Nā Kaukani Wai (Song of a Thousand Waters).
Mulberry paper, handmade plant dyes and mineral pigments, gouache, ceramic beads, thread. Approx. 8 feet H x 11 feet W installed. 2018. Collection of the National Gallery of Victoria (Australia).
“pow wow songs No. 2” (2020).
ROIN MORIGEAU
Pain
Archival Ink on Bristol Paper
18X22 in.
2016
Eric-Paul Riege
let the Holy ppl watch over U and Me
2018, National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, NM
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kw'diim üüla - hungry seal 🦭 (my sticker design for the rest of march!)
Their Bones were Extracted and Sold
2023 Acrylic on canvas 11” x 16”
Kent Monkman
Tasha Beeds 2020 Acrylic on canvas 60” x 36”
Kent Monkman is a 2-Spirit, Ocêkwi Sîpiy/Fisher River Cree Nation artist. Monkman paints his 2-Spirit alter ego Miss Chief Eagle Testickle and historical pieces that seek to represent the 2SLGBT+ Indigenous history of Turtle Island.
2008 Acrylic paint on canvas Gift from Vicki and Kent Logan to the Collection of the Denver Art Museum, 2015.657 Reproduction © and courtesy Kent Monkman
Resurgence of the People 2019 Acrylic on canvas 132” x 264” Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Find all of Monkman's art HERE
Throwing Sodomites to the Dogs
2023 Acrylic on canvas 85” x 102.5”
I got the pleasure of making a print for the Wabanaki Two-Spirit Alliance!! I'm so excited ("'koselomulpon" means 'we love you' in passamaquoddy)
Study for Section 69 of the Indian Act
Kent Monkman
2021 Acrylic on canvas 24" x 18
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It is Thanksgiving this week, which means it's a good time to acknowledge the land we live on and the Indigenous peoples it belongs to. By no means should this be the only time we acknowledge that.
I live on Iroquois land, specifically the Mohawk region. The Iroquois, or Five Nations, was brought together by Deganawidah the Great Peacemaker, and it was composed of the nations Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca.
Later on the Tuscaroras joined, and they became Haudenosaunee, or 'six separate nations.'
I really like this website!
Indigenous Two-Spirit and LGBTQ+ Artists Back in August 2020, I started curating a list of Indigenous Two-Spirit and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,
Creator: Charlie Amáyá Scott, Ph.D. (she/her and they/them)
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For Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirited ⚧ (MMIWG2S+)
I don't expect much from most people, but it would be nice if more people took the time to actually understand us
Go to Indigenous Art Exhibits!
I recently went to my first Indigenous art exhibit, and it made me wonder if there were any (and if so, how many) 2SLGBTQIA+ Indigenous art exhibits. Both LGBTQ+ and Indigenous people continue to go unrecognized in the mainstream; however, more and more exhibits have been popping up, featuring these artists. Participating in these events is important, as it supports the artist, often their community, and spreads awareness about the history, cultures, and lives of people who are discriminated against and suppressed well into the modern day. In this post, I want to cover 2 ongoing exhibits featuring 2SLGBT+ artists.
Transgressors
Transgressors: Crossing cultural boundaries as Indigiqueer and Two Spirit artists was an exhibit curated by Anthony Hudson and Felix Furby that featured nine Indigiqueer artists. These artists include a.c. Ramírez de Arellaño, Evan Benally Atwood, Geo Soctomah Neptune, Jeffrey Gibson, Lehuauakea, Qahir-beejee Peco, Roin Morigeau, Steph Littlebird, Walter Scott. The exhibit aims to showcase the history and culture of 2-Spirit people as well as the lives, roles, and stories of contemporary 2SLGBTQIA people. The exhibits tour began at the Chachalu Cultural Museum in Grand Ronde and officially opened at the University of Oregon’s Museum of Natural and Cultural History on May 15 and will tour until January 1st throughout the West Coast.
A portrait of Shimkhin by artist Steph Littlebird. Photo: M. Earl Williams
Queering Identity
Niibawi Ajijaak (Standing Crane), A community without Two Spirits, 2023, Vinyl text installation. Image courtesy of the Minnesota Museum of American Art.
Queering Identity is an exhibit from the MMAA (Minnesota Museum of American Art) running until August 26th in the M’s Nancy and John Lindahl Gallery. This exhibit seeks to celebrate Indigiqueer, and diverse voices, inspiring both artists who may not feel represented by the artists typically featured in art major exhibits or 2SLGBTQIA+ people who have suffered homophobia because of colonization. The artists featured in this exhibit include Sharon Day, Ryan Young, Delia Touché, Awanigiizhik Bruce, Niibawi Ajijaak, Awanaabe Syverson, Zoe Allen, Naawakamigookwe Lera Hephner, Noah Polk, Madeline Treuer, Chewie Mason, Asin-Gwiiwizens, Sav Jonsa, Giiwedin, Nick Metcalf, and Penny Kagigebi.
Delia Touché (Spirit Lake Nation) Dinosaur Oyate, triptych, 2025, Dinosaur Oyate (Blue), Dinosaur Oyate (Leader), Dinosaur Oyate (Pink), Screen print, porcupine quills, birchbark, horse hair, and seed beads, dentalium, moose hide. Image courtesy of the Minnesota Museum of American Art.
Walter Scott
Kahnawake-born interdisciplinary artist Walter Scott is known for the Wendy trilogy of graphic novels. Photo: M. Earl Williams
Evan Benally Atwood is a queer Diné photographer and filmmaker from Farmington, N.M. Photo: M. Earl Williams
2SLQBTQIA+ Indigenous Storytelling
In grade school, we never read Indigenous authors. Instead, we read the typical white man's books that just about every American kid reads over the course of their public school lives. I don’t think I ever even read a book written by a woman during my time in grade school. The books we read are only culturally relevant to a small group of people. Most of the kids I went to school with, including myself, never saw ourselves or the lives we live represented in the media we were forced to consume and analyze. Today’s post is for the 2SLGBTQIA+ and POC people who never got to read books that represented their lives and struggles, and for the authors whose works are not recognized because of their identity.
Ma-Nee Chacaby
Ma-Nee Chacaby is an activist, artist, author, 2-Spirit, Lesbian, Ojibwa-Cree elder. Her works relay the stories of abuse, addiction, and poverty she experienced throughout her life. Chacaby was first introduced to the concept of being 2-Spirit by her grandmother, who told her that “…you have two spirits in your body, mind, soul and your heart.” She tells Chacany that seven generations ago, when she was a little girl, 2-Spirit people lived freely among the First Nations people without fear of discrimination.
In 2016, Ma-Nee Chacaby (with Mary Louisa Plummer) released A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder. The book has won multiple awards, including winning Canada Reads in 2025, the Alison Prentice Award in 2018, and the Oral History Association Book Award in 2017. The book was shortlisted for the Lesbian Memoir/Biography, Lambda Literary Awards in 2017, and was nominated for the Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature in 2016 as well.
The book describes what life was like for Chacaby, living with her Grandmother in a rural Ojibwa community (near Lake Nipigon, Ontario). Chacaby faces many challenges, overcoming abuse and alcoholism in her community, as well as the economic, social, and health challenges stemming from colonization.
Decades later, Chacaby has raised her children, gotten sober (even working as an alcoholism counsellor), came out as a Lesbian controversially in 1988 in a Thunder Bay Television news story, and begun painting as a part of her healing process (See her exhibits HERE).
Chacaby has since become an activist for 2SLGBTQ+ and Indigenous people, leading the very first Thunder Bay Pride Parade in 2013.
Buy A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder!
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Gwen Benaway
Gwen Benaway (she/her) is a 2-Spirit trans poet of Anishinaabe and Métis descent. She is credited as one of Canada’s most widely published trans authors, having published four poetry collections: Ceremonies for the Dead, Passage, Holy Wild, and day/break, a collection of essays, and worked as an editor for the short stories Maiden Mother and Crone: Fantastical Trans Femmes. Benaway is a Ph.D student at the Women and Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. Poetry in Voice states that Benaway’s work is critically acclaimed in Canada, and that she was a “finalist for the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers from the Writer’s Trust of Canada, and her third poetry collection, Holy Wild, was longlisted for the Pat Lowther Award, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Trans Poetry, the Trillium Award, the Triangle Publishing Press Trans and Gender Variant Literary Award, and was the winner of the 2019 Governor General Literary Award for Poetry.”
Benaway claims in a ‘micro-interview’ with Poetry in Voice that Anne Sexton helped her discover the confessional poetry that has become her focus, alongside Indigenous authors Marilyn Dumont and Gregory Scofield.
Buy Benaway’s Books here & here!
Joshua Whitehead
Joshua Whitehead (he/him) is a 2-spirit, Oji-Cree academic and author from the Peguis First Nation on Treaty 1 territory in Manitoba, working as an Associate Professor at the University of Calgary on Treaty 7 territory.
Whitehead is a prolific author and poet whose works include, but are not limited to, Jonny Appleseed (2018), Making Love with the Lands (2022), and full-metal indigiqueer (2017). Find Whitehead’s full list of publications on Goodreads. Whitehead’s works feature the intersectionality of queerness, Indigenous identity, and mental health.
Whitehead began writing poetry in kindergarten, but he really felt that he was a poet in high school. His poems are typically lyrical, with an experimental and intertextual style. He claims in his ‘micro-interview with Poetry in Voice that in his poem "full-metal oji-cree" (a poem in Poetry in Voice’s anthology), he seeks to remove the idea of Indigeneity from a historical context and write it into a futuristic, sci-fi setting.
Buy his books and poetry here!
Adrian Stevens & Sean Snyder
Adrian Matthias Stevens and Sean Snyder in their own beadwork. Brass work by Jeremy Dial. Photo: Ceylon Grey
