24/03/2025
The first book of its kind, Bebías Into Ǫhndaa Ke: Q***r Indigenous Knowledge for Land and Community, edited by Kleo P. Skavinski and Sydney Rae Krill, is a collection and celebration of q***r Northern Indigenous writing that collapses boundaries between q***r Indigenous selfhood and land practices, and that brings the two into focus as countering-power to destructive colonial and capitalist forces.
From the editors’ introduction: “As centuries of European settlement and colonization took place on these lands, many q***r Indigenous teachings and practices that existed outside of the colonial gender binary were forced underground or abandoned by individuals and communities. This was a matter of survival for our q***r Indigenous kin. This collection of writing emerges as a vital source of knowledge amidst these attempts at erasure, offering us a glimpse into the fluid, Indigenous worlds that settler colonialism could not stamp out.”
This book is first and foremost a recognition and celebration of q***r Indigenous people and the teachings of q***r Indigenous people. Each contributor has carved their own creative, resilient path through the weeds of heteropatriarchy and colonization, emerging with invaluable wisdom and a vision for our lands and communities that is shared in the pages that follow.”
With contributors Táncháy Redvers, Kyle Shaughnessy, Sydney Krill, Anne Riley, Naomi Bird, Madeline Whetung, Sarah Hunt / Tłaliłila’ogwa, Loreisa Lepine, charlie amáyá scott, Shaznay Waugh, Lianne Charlie, Megan Dicker Nochasak, Sarah Wright Cardinal, Theron Cardinal Lennie, Ryan Crosschild (Sikapiohkiitopi), Riley Kucheron, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Jamaica Osorio, Alex Wilson, Max Liberoin, Brian Kowikchuk, Kata Kuhnert, Destiny Mercredi, Kai Pyle, Ames Val.
Out this May, pre-order at arpbooks.org!
Artwork by Lianne Marie Leda Charlie, with design and typeset by Bret Parenteau.
