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Asegi Stories : Cherokee Queer and Two-Spirit Memory by Driskill, Qwo-Li is a social science available to read on EtoBox.
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In Cherokee <i>Asegi udanto</i> refers to people who either fall outside of men’s and women’s roles or who mix men’s and women’s roles. <i>Asegi</i>, which translates as “strange,” is also used by some Cherokees as a term similar to “queer.” For author Qwo-Li Driskill, asegi provides a means by which to reread Cherokee history in order to listen for those stories rendered “strange” by colonial heteropatriarchy.<br> <br> As the first full-length work of scholarship to develop a tribally specific
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- Author
- Driskill, Qwo-Li
- Publisher
- The University of Arizona Press
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780816533640
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Social Science, Science, Native American Studies
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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