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Celebrating Queer Indigenous Voices Week: Interview with Daniel Heath Justice
By Guest Contributor Jorge Antonio Vallejos, cross-posted from Black Coffee Poet
Near the end of my video interview with Daniel Heath Justice (above) for this special week Celebrating Queer Indigenous Voices I asked, “… anything we’ve left out?”
“There’s a lot we’ve left out,” said Justice.
True!
Although we had a table full of books we failed to mention Queer Indigenous writers from around the world. And I’m embarrassed to say that I did not mention an Indigenous, brown, queer woman who helped pave the way for a brown boy like me: Gloria Anzaldua. She was a Mestiza, Xicana who made an impact on the literature world and changed the way Indigeneity is seen, thought, read, written, and lived.
R.I.P Gloria.
Justice and I focused on Indigenous writers such as Chrystos, Paula Gunn Allen,Gregory Scofield, Beth Brant, all amazing writers who are Indigenous to Canada and the United States. A great interview (it’s always a pleasure chatting with Daniel) and resource for people, Justice was absolutely right: we left a lot out. (…)
During the first five minutes, they discuss the origin of term “two-spirit”, its political and cultural significance, and the tensions that come with using it generically to encompass different genders/orientations across different nations.
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