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Each person's discovery of gender identity is unique, but Two-Spirit, the way it's relayed here, I think it's important to recognize this is specific to a people, a culture, a spirituality. Likewise, Indigiqueer, queer and Indigenous, is an experience separate from how a white person might experience queerness or an Indigenous person might experience heteronormativity. 1/?

I will always be grateful to every instance of a character in any medium calling out exactly how "fucked up" such comments are, and yes, stating that all bodies deserve "to be...loved". It's a message that bears repeating.

Gut punch prose.

Wow! Loved this book! Beautiful poetic writing that was at times joyful and at time heartbreaking. Will likely reread

This reads like a memoir and is a deep engrossing exploration about relationships - romantic and familial- and queerness and indigeneity, including fetishization. I love reading about sex work without commentary on it, as in its just how Jonny gets money to go back to the rez in this world. It‘s not told in chronological order, the stories weave in and out of each other.

A powerful set of sci-if short stories, specifically collected from indigenous, queer-identifying authors. They all round an end theme of “…. But what if we tried really f*cking hard to work together” and I can‘t get enough. So much challenge of worldly thinking and cultural norms!

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It was not in chronological order, and it was quite sexually graphic at times. The author narrated the audio but he has a monotone voice. Turns out there might have been more of a plot than I thought, so maybe I did miss more than I thought. For some reason, I had it in my head that indigenous 2-spirit people were more accepted in indigenous cultures than gay people in white cultures, but (at least in this book) that doesn‘t appear to be the case

A good but very explicit listen. It went further than I‘m generally comfortable with but the writing was excellent and the story had a beautiful nuance to it.

Such an intense, memorable read.

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#12Booksof2021 #March

I knew this was bound to happen. I can't pick just one for March. Both of these books challenged and affected my view of the world. They both still sit in my heart all these months later.

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