Pride Month 2023 continues! – Here’s a list of events & activities near you!
Celebrate the beauty and power of our Indigiqueer relatives!
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Indigiqueer Festival
June 23, 4-8 PM Waterfront Park – Seattle, WA
Save the date! The Indigiqueer Festival is back on June 23, 4-8 PM at Waterfront Park to celebrate the beauty & power of Indigiqueer/Two-Spirit people! Enjoy food, music, drag, dance & more against the stunning Salish Sea. Start your Seattle Pride weekend at Pier 62! Get Tickets
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Hailey Tayathy at Galactic Love
Sunday Jun 25 10:00am Westlake Park + Downtown Seattle
Helping to launch love across the galaxy this Pride Month! I’m so proud to be performing and bringing some Indigiqueer futurism to this year’s Seattle Pride Parade on June 25th celebrating the power of Galactic Love! More Information
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Fleurs de Villes PRIDE – don’t miss THE floral event of the year!
Pacific Place, June 22-26
Fleurs de Villes PRIDE – a FREE fresh floral celebration of joy and inclusivity, created by some of Seattle’s favorite florists. Experience incredible displays including floral benches, rainbows, swings, selfie frames and Fleurs de Villes’ famous mannequins inspired by Seattle PrideFest’s 2023 theme “Rainbow Rising” – celebrating the diversity and beauty of the Pride community. More Information
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Gregory Smithers with Hailey Tayathy: Decolonizing Gender
Podcast Episode – Town Hall Seattle Civic Series, May 15,2023
Before 1492, hundreds of Indigenous communities across North America included people who identified as neither male nor female, but both. They went by aakíí’skassi, miati, okitcitakwe, or one of the hundreds of other tribal-specific identities. After European colonizers invaded Indian Country, centuries of violence and systematic persecution followed, imperiling the existence of people who today call themselves Two-Spirits, an umbrella term denoting feminine and masculine qualities in one person. Despite centuries of colonialism, the Two-Spirit people are reclaiming their place in Native nations. Listen to the Podcast
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Check this out at Seattle Public Library – Love After the End
An Anthology of Two-spirit & Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction
Book – Also offered as eBook – 2020
A bold and breathtaking anthology of queer Indigenous speculative fiction. This groundbreaking fiction anthology showcases a number of new and emerging 2SQ (Two-Spirit and queer) Indigenous writers from across Turtle Island. These visionary authors show how queer Indigenous communities can bloom and thrive through utopian narratives.
About the author
Joshua Whitehead is an Oji-nêhiyaw, Two-Spirit member of Peguis First Nation (Treaty 1) in manitowapow. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Calgary and the author of the poetry collection full-metal indigiqueer and the Lambda Literary Award-winning novel Jonny Appleseed. Book, eBook 2020 Check it Out
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