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Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature

Started by Shana A, February 27, 2012, 08:01:17 AM

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February 27, 2012, 08:01:17 AM
Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature
By Wilhelm Murg February 26, 2012
           
http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/02/26/sovereign-erotics-a-collection-of-two-spirit-literature-100020 

Edited by Qwo-Li Driskill, Deborah Miranda, Daniel Heath Justice and Lisa Tatonetti, Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature (University of Arizona Press, 2011)is a landmark book—the first Native gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, two-spirit (GLBTQ2) prose and poetry anthology since Living the Spirit: A Gay American Indian Anthology (St. Martin's Press, 1998).

While not every writer in Sovereign Erotics directly addresses the GLBTQ2 experience, the majority tackle the subject in a way that many straight Native people can understand—in terms of alienation. The difference is that two-spirits experience an additional level of alienation within their own culture, even though over the past two decades the original acceptance of two spirits has been returning. Which is curious, considering that heterosexuality may have simply been invented by the Germans—see Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality.
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
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