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Queer Indigenous Cinemas: Sovereign Genders from Seven Directions

Queer Indigenous Cinemas: Sovereign Genders from Seven Directions

Estrada, Gabriel S.

Paperback

Series: Latinx Pop Culture

Film StudiesIndigenous StudiesGLBTQIA Studies

ISBN10: 0816556407
ISBN13: 9780816556403
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: Mar 17 2026
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

The seven Indigenous directions--east, south, west, north, down, up, and center--provide a map of understanding gender in media history.

In Queer Indigenous Cinemas, scholar Gabriel S. Estrada offers an analysis of queer Indigenous media from the Americas, the Pacific, and the Caribbean. This groundbreaking work uses Indigenous directional space and sovereign mapping methods to uncover the emotional, spiritual, and cultural dimensions of queer Indigenous lives. The book's seven chapters--each one of the directions--look closely at media such as cinema and streaming videos that draw on Indigenous concepts from diverse nations such as Diné, Caxcan, Kanaka Maoli, and Nehiyawak. Estrada discusses how the cinema brings into focus the ways that many Indigenous genders do not conform with the male/female binary, genders and sexualities that may or may not overlap with contemporary constructions of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and two-spirit (LGBTQI2+) identities.

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