Indigiqueer Perspectives
Indigenous Authors in the Spotlight Series
The Winter 2024 Indigenous Authors in the Spotlight edition highlights Indigiqueer, Two-Spirit, and LGBTQIA+ perspectives across genres of poetry, memoir, correspondence, short fiction, and academic texts. These authors and their works represent a variety of nations, communities, and intersections of identities and offer a starting point for further learning about the intersections between Indigeneity and queerness more broadly. Previous iterations of the Indigenous Authors in the Spotlight series are linked at the bottom of this page and in our Zotero bibliography.
Thank you to Rudi Aker, Indigenous Student Librarian 2023-2025 at Concordia Library, for conceptualizing, creating and curating this collection.
Additional resources
Our Zotero bibliographies, while by no means exhaustive, feature many more relevant citations. For additional Concordia Library resources on a variety of topics see our Indigenous educational resources for faculty and students or First Peoples Studies Subject Guide. If you come across more works and authors that you think are missing at Concordia Library, let us know via our Suggest a Purchase form.
About the series
Our Indigenous Authors in the Spotlight Series aims to support and promote Indigenous authors and artists by featuring some of the library's materials with Indigenous content, specifically focusing on works by First Nations, Métis and Inuit authors and artists.
Previous editions
Inuit testimony, critique and practice (2022): writers, curators, visual and performing artists, chefs, scholars and Elders. A focus on authors from Inuit Nunangat but also including Kalaallit writers and editors. Both art and the arctic feature frequently throughout, and approaches range from funny to frightening, often with a mix of both.
Memoirs (2021): authors writing their own stories through prose, poetry or other forms of autobiographical expression(s), as well as Elders telling their stories through oral history interviews.
Indigenous Feminisms (2020): authors engaging with, and challenging, a wide range of feminist perspectives. Featured works include single-authored monographs, edited books, journal articles and even a podcast.
Science Fiction & Futurisms (Fall 2019): Authors exploring settler contact, colonialism, climate change, notions of progress and scifi tropes. They offer multiple visions of dystopias, utopias as well as contemporary realisms and futurisms.
Indigenous Poetry (Winter 2019): Spotlight on contemporary works, including Griffin Poetry Prize winners, older favourites and more difficult choices, long form poems and anthologies; the poetry covers topics such as representation, revolution, racism, and love.
Indigenous Research Methods (2018): Library materials exploring Indigenous research methodologies and Indigenous knowledges. Books that celebrate or examine non-Western ways of knowing such as plant- and land- based knowledges, storywork and ceremony. Written and edited by Indigenous authors from around the world.
Indigenous Authors in the Spotlight (2017): A selection of literature, art, drama, poetry, non-fiction by First Nations, Métis and Inuit authors and artists, including works by Indigenous faculty at Concordia, and a celebration of the work of the late Gail Guthrie Valaskakis.
Celebrating Authors and Great Reads (2016): Some of the library’s print and online books of relevance to Indigenous studies and issues, including non-fiction, fiction, poetry, art, children's books, and even manga. Most selections are recent, published within the last 5-10 years and authored First Nations, Métis and Inuit authors and artists.
See also our shared Zotero bibliographies for all these collections.
