Description

• Title:
  Refusing (Mis)Recognition: Navigating Multiple Marginalization in the U.S. Two Spirit Movement
• Creator:
  Davis, Jenny L.
• Description:
  I focus on the discursive strategies within Two Spirit events and groups that center the definition of ‘Two Spirit’ first and foremost as an Indigenous identity by using both unifying/mass terms (Native American, glbtiq) and culturally & community specific terms (specific tribe names, Two Spirit). Rather than selecting a “right” term, such conversations highlight the constant, simultaneous positionings negotiated by Two Spirit people in their daily lives, and the tensions between recognizability and accuracy; communality and specificity; indigeneity and settler culture; and the burden multiply marginalized people carry in negotiating between all of those metaphorical and literal spaces. Drawing on Simpson’s (2014) concept of the politics of refusal, I demonstrate how Two Spirit individuals utilize available categories of identity, not as either/or binaries but rather as overlapping concepts— differentiated along micro- and macro- scales— to refuse attempts to both reduce the Two Spirit identity to one that is based either in gender or sexuality, and the appropriation of the identity and movement by non-Indigenous individuals and groups within broader national and global queer movements.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Copyright (c) 2019 Jenny L. Davis;
  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
• Date:
  2019.01.22
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
  "Peer-reviewed article"
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Review of International American Studies; Vol 12 No 1 (2019): Indigenous Social Movements in the Americas—RIAS Vol. 12, Spring–Summer (1/2019); 65-86;
  Review of International American Studies; Tom 12 Nr 1 (2019): Indigenous Social Movements in the Americas—RIAS Vol. 12, Spring–Summer (1/2019); 65-86;
  1991-2773;
  10.31261/rias.2019.12.1
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  University of Silesia Press
• Relation: https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/RIAS/article/view/7328/5959
• Identifier: https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/RIAS/article/view/7328 ;
  10.31261/rias.7328
• Data provider:
  Czasopisma Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  other