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Ancestral (Be)Longings: Queer/Transgender Indigenous Men’s Writing
Friday, March 25, 2022
10:35 am to 11:35 am
Furthering Indigenous, womanist, and queer/trans traditions of color, queer/trans Native men are creating art detailing the struggles and beautiful survival of multiple sovereign territories. Transgender, nonbinary, and queer writers/editors from the Americas, Pacific, and Palestine will discuss how Indigenous interpenetrating bodies—terrestrial, cultural, physical—figure in their work, and how lands and lovers are woven together, families and futures, and the surviving of genocide, intimately linked.
Participants
D. Keali'i MacKenzie is a queer Kanaka Maoli writer and Pacific Tongues poet-facilitator. He is the author of From Hunger to Prayer and coeditor of Bamboo Ridge's speculative issue. His work is in 'Ōiwi: A Native Hawaiian Journal, Foglifter, and Mauri Ola: Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English.
feras hilal is a Brown queer Muslim Palestinian writer/performer living on Cahuilla land. They were a Radius of Arab American Writers and Los Angeles Review of Books writing workshop fellow. They are completing a speculative mixed-genre fiction/poetry project that imagines a liberated Palestine.
Max Wolf Valerio (Kainai) is author of the Lambda finalist The Testosterone Files, the performance Exile: Vision Quest at the Edge of Identity, and the poetry book The Criminal: The Invisibility of Parallel Forces. His work appears in Yellow Medicine Review and Troubling the Line:Trans and Genderqueer Poetry/Poetics.
Ty Defoe (Giizhig) is an Indigiqueer citizen of the Oneida Nation and Ojibwe Tribe. A First Peoples Fund Cultural Capital Fellow and interdisciplinary performance artist, he has writing that appears in HowlRound, Casting a Movement: The Welcome Table Initiative, Kalihwisaks, and the Pitkin Review.
