Category: AIS 440 Native Sexuality and Queer Discourse

On Indigenous Epistemology and Ethics

CJ Trowbridge 2021-10-18 AIS 440 Week 8 Literature Review: On Indigenous Epistemology and Ethics Choose 2 of the lectures from the first 7 weeks of class and write a minimum 2 page response by answering the following questions: 1. What was the main topic of the lectures? 2. What did you learn from the lectures?… Continue reading On Indigenous Epistemology and Ethics

Resisting Pressure to Conform To Capitalist Hegemony

CJ Trowbridge AIS 440 Week 6: Two-Spirit People 2021-09-28 Prompt: Describe an action, idea, or ideology that continues to impose colonial heteropatriarchal principles onto Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and what steps you believe are necessary to rewrite this area of colonial and settler analysis.  This response needs to be a minimum of… Continue reading Resisting Pressure to Conform To Capitalist Hegemony

AIS 440 Week 6: Two-Spirit People

Watch In the Life: The Murder of Fred Martinez Jr Two-Spirits Documentary  Read A Boy Remembered Man who murdered LGBTQ teen in Cortez is released from prison Write Describe an action, idea, or ideology that continues to impose colonial heteropatriarchal principles onto Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and what steps you believe are… Continue reading AIS 440 Week 6: Two-Spirit People

Choosing to be Queer Native or Native Queer

CJ Trowbridge AIS 440 Native Sexualities and Queer Discourse Choosing to be Queer Native or Native Queer I was struck by the following quote from the Barbara May Cameron article, “Cameron’s refusal to be queer in one corner of her life, and native in another, is as radical and transformative now, as it was then.… Continue reading Choosing to be Queer Native or Native Queer

AIS 440 Week 4: Gay American Indians

Read Barbara May Cameron Native Americans/LGBTQ+ Americans: 1528-1976 Listen Randy Burns’s Work Starting Gay American Indians Roger Kuhn: Decolonizing and Unsettling Pleasure  Write Choose any of the readings, videos, or podcasts from the first four weeks. Papers must include two parts: a review of the readings, videos, or podcasts. A review is not a close reading… Continue reading AIS 440 Week 4: Gay American Indians

AIS 440 Week 3: Learning From The Past

Read (All of these are behind academic paywalls but I can share PDFs. Please reach out if you need them.) Sabine Lang: Native American men-women, lesbians, two-spirits: Contemporary and historical perspectives Will Roscoe: Was We’Wha a Homosexual Roscoe – Bibliography Watch Two-Spirit People

AIS 440 Week 2: Decolonize Sexuality

Read Abel R. Gomez – San Francisco Pride, Nation’s Largest LGBT Celebration, Takes Place on Indigenous Ohlone Land A Map of Gender Diverse Cultures Decolonization is not a metaphor “Decolonization brings about the repatriation of Indigenous land and life; it is not a metaphor for other things we want to do to improve our societies and… Continue reading AIS 440 Week 2: Decolonize Sexuality

AIS 440 Week 1: Introduction to Native Sexuality and Queer Discourse

Read How Does Your Positionality Bias Your Epistemology? Listen Write Using the free website or free app (find on Apple or Google Play) Native Land research the land(s) where you grew up. If you grew up in several different places feel free to list the most relevant. If you grew up outside of the US or Canada,… Continue reading AIS 440 Week 1: Introduction to Native Sexuality and Queer Discourse