Books like Asegi stories by Qwo-Li Driskill

A groundbreaking memoir that blends personal narrative with rigorous theory, charting Maggie Nelson’s queer romance, pregnancy, and the politics of love and family.

Changing Ones: A Study of Gender Diversity in Native North America

Two Spirit People offers a scholarly exploration of American Indian LGBTQ lives, examining traditional gender styles, spirituality, and contemporary challenges.

An edited collection that explores the lives and cultures of Two‑Spirit peoples—Native Americans whose gender and sexual identities transcend conventional categories.

A Two-Spirit Journey is Ma-Nee Chacaby's extraordinary account of her life as an Ojibwa-Cree lesbian. From her early, often harrowing memories of life and abuse in a remote Ojibwa community riven by poverty and alcoholism, Chacaby's story is one of enduring and ultimately overcoming the social, economic, and health legacies of colonialism. As a child, Chacaby learned spiritual and cultural traditions from her Cree grandmother and trapping, hunting, and bush survival skills from her Ojibwa stepfather. She also suffered physical and sexual abuse by different adults, and in her teen years became alcoholic herself. At twenty, Chacaby moved to Thunder Bay with her children to escape an abusive marriage. Abuse, compounded by racism, continued, but Chacaby found supports to help herself and others. Over the following decades, she achieved sobriety; trained and worked as an alcoholism counselor; raised her children and fostered many others; learned to live with visual impairment; and came out as a lesbian. In 2013, Chacaby led the first gay pride parade in Thunder Bay. Ma-Nee Chacaby has emerged from hardship grounded in faith, compassion, humour, and resilience. Her memoir provides unprecedented insights into the challenges still faced by many Indigenous people.

An ethnographic study of how the term "transgender" emerged and spread as a political identity in the U.S., based on fieldwork among male‑to‑female activists, and an analysis of the tensions between activist language and self‑identification.