Across Bodies and Roles: Indigenous Identity, Gender, Sexuality, and Resistance to Colonial Power

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue invites contributions that critically examine the intersections of Indigenous identity, gender, sexuality, and colonial power. We welcome work that explores how colonial systems have shaped and policed Indigenous bodies, relationships, and roles, while also highlighting the diverse ways Indigenous peoples resist, reimagine, and reclaim agency and autonomy. Topics may include gender-based violence, sexual and gender diversity, heterosexuality, intimacy, kinship, embodiment, reproductive justice, consent, cultural expression, media and digital media, and the impacts of law and policy. We encourage submissions that engage with both historical and contemporary experiences, and that consider how Indigenous agency is expressed through cultural practices, relational ethics, and everyday acts of survival and resistance. Contributions may draw from community-based research, creative practice, or interdisciplinary scholarship, and should centre Indigenous voices and perspectives. Together, these works will unsettle colonial narratives and affirm the complexity, strength, and sovereignty of Indigenous lives across gendered and sexual terrains.

Dr. Corrinne Sullivan
Dr. Kim Spurway
Guest Editors

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• reproductive justice and rights
• consent and relational ethics
• colonial constructions of masculinity and femininity
• sexual health and wellbeing
• cultural expressions of gender and sexuality
• intergenerational knowledge and storytelling
• spirituality and gendered embodiment
• law, policy, and institutional violence
• media and representation
• healing and survivance
• intersectionality with disability, class, and race