Honouring Our Ancestors - Takatapui, Two-Spirit and Indigenous LGBTQI+ Well-being

Te Herenga Waka University Press, Victoria University of Wellington, 2023. Inscription from editor at top of front endpaper. Good secondhand condition.

In these rigorous and challenging essays, writers from Aotearoa and Turtle Island (Canada and the United States of America) explore the well-being of takat?pui, two-spirit, and M?ori and Indigenous LGBTQI+ communities. Themes include resistance, reclamation, empowerment, transformation and healing. Central to Honouring Our Ancestors is the knowledge that, before colonisation, Indigenous peoples had their own healthy understandings of gender, sexual identities and sexuality. Some of these understandings have survived the onslaught of colonisation; others require decolonisation so that our Indigenous nations can begin to heal. Through this lens, the writers gathered here contribute their knowledge and experience of structural and social change.