We Have Always Been Here: Decolonizing Gender
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We Have Always Been Here:
Decolonizing Gender
Cultural Survival Quarterly 46-4 (December 2022)
Cover photo: "Nafea e te Fa'aipoipo? When Will You Marry? (after Gauguin)", 2020, by Yuki Kihara
(Samoan-Japanese). C-print mounted behind acrylic glass. Art piece part of Kihara's
"Paradise Camp" 59th Venice Biennale exhibit.
 
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Relearning Our Past Histories through Our Native Tongues

Denver Toroga Breda (Khoikhoi)
A personal account of reconnecting to Khoi identity through Indigenous language.



Decolonizing Paradise: A Pasifika Artist’s Vision in Venice

Cristina Verán
An interview with artist Yuki Kihara (Sāmoan-Japanese) about her work and Fa’afafine identity.
 

Thoughts on Indigeneity & Gender

Pues Youth Collective (Yaqui) write that to be non-binary is to decolonize.
 

Gender Equity from the Principles of Indigenous Kichwa Realities
Christian Pillalaza

Kichwa Peoples hold their own concepts of feminine and masculine energies and gender roles.

 

Fluid Intersections: Gender, Sexuality, and Indigenous Identities Across Borders
Nati Garcia (Maya Mam)

Shania Sontariakon/Sandoval-Cross (Kanien’ kehá:ka/Afro-Maya) discusses gender, sexuality, and Indigenous identities across borders.

Mixtec/Queer: Rebuilding the Past, Reimagining the Future
Claudio Hernandez (Na Ñuu Savi)

Learning to celebrate being Queer and Indigenous together through reconnecting to ancestral ways.


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One Community, Multiple Identities
Daniela Esmeralda Vázquez (Nahua)

Transitioning in a rural Indigenous community in Mexico is a complicated process.


Transgressing Imposed Gender Roles in Guatemala
Dorotea Gómez Grijalva (Maya K´iche’)

Lesbian feminist writer Gómez analyzes conventional concepts of gender as internalized by Indigenous Peoples.
 

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Indigenous Knowledge
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Indigenous Gender Concepts in the Context of Climate Justice


Indigenous Arts

Reimagining Traditional Storytelling through Queerness and Stage Performance


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