Reclaiming the Landbodymind Erotic: Queer First Nations “Storytelling Wholeness” and “Some Properly Hot Gay Sex”

This paper explores a series of recent works of speculative fiction and poetry by queer First Nations writers—including Ellen van Neerven, Laniyuk, Alison Whittaker, SJ Norman, and Jazz Money—to touch on the depth and breadth of Blak Queer embodiment, erotics, joy, and imagination. The focus is on r...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Journal of Global Indigeneity
Main Author: Han Reardon-Smith
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Centre for Global Indigenous Futures 2023
Subjects:
queer indigeneity
erotics
indigenous studies
queer and trans studies
poetry
speculative fiction
Communities. Classes. Races
HT51-1595
First Nations
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.54760/001c.87441
https://doaj.org/article/b5c97def2758400a939c13fe5f0b966f
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Summary:This paper explores a series of recent works of speculative fiction and poetry by queer First Nations writers—including Ellen van Neerven, Laniyuk, Alison Whittaker, SJ Norman, and Jazz Money—to touch on the depth and breadth of Blak Queer embodiment, erotics, joy, and imagination. The focus is on reading these texts vulnerably, with an ethic of companion-thinking in respect to Indigenous Standpoint Theory, attentive to my relationality and responsibilities as a queer white colonial-settler situated on stolen Aboriginal Land. Thinking in company with queer First Nations creative writing and erotics in this way redefines the horizon of possibility in imagining a world beyond what Wiradjuri transgender/non-binary scholar and artist Sandy O’Sullivan (2021 p.1) calls “the colonial project of gender (and everything else).”

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