Asegi Stories: Cherokee Queer and Two-Spirit Memory

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In Cherokee Asegi udanto refers to those that either fall outdoor of men’s and women’s roles or who mix men’s and women’s roles. Asegi, which translates as “atypical,” could also be used by some Cherokees as a term very similar to “queer.” For writer Qwo-Li Driskill, asegi provides a means wherein to reread Cherokee history as a way to listen for those stories rendered “atypical” by colonial heteropatriarchy.

As the first full-length work of scholarship to develop a tribally specific Indigenous Queer or Two-Spirit critique, Asegi Stories examines gender and sexuality in Cherokee cultural memory, how they shape the present, and how they may be able to influence the future.

The theoretical and methodological underpinnings of Asegi Stories derive from activist, artistic, and intellectual genealogies, known as “dissent lines” by Maori scholar Linda Tuhiwai Smith. Driskill intertwines Cherokee and other Indigenous traditions, women of color feminisms, grassroots activisms, queer and Trans studies and politics, rhetoric, Native studies, and decolonial politics. Drawing from oral histories and archival documents as a way to articulate Cherokee-centered Two-Spirit critiques, Driskill contributes to the larger intertribal movements for social justice.

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