June is Pride Month

X̱wi7x̱wa Library is celebrating Pride Month by sharing resources from our collection and online!

1. Check out our Two-Spirit & Indigiqueer Research Guide!
2. Check out the Smithsonian Learning Lab’s Conversations: Queer Inuit Art.
   • Alice Qannak Glenn, host of the Coffee & Quaq podcast, is joined by Jenny Irene Miller and Ossie Michelin for a conversation on queer art, providing Inuit perspectives.
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3. Daniel Heath Justice UBC Professor & Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Literature and Expressive Culture at UBC. Colorado-born Canadian citizen of the Cherokee Nation/ ᏣᎳᎩᎯ ᎠᏰᎵ.
   • Titles from Heath Justice at UBC: https://webcat.library.ubc.ca/vwebv/search?searchType=7&searchId=26410&maxResultsPerPage=10&recCount=10&recPointer=0&resultPointer=0&headingId=7817820 \ 
4. Brandi Bird is Cree, Saulteaux and Métis and grew up on Territory 1 territory in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
   • X̱wi7x̱wa does not yet have a copy of Bird’s publication I Am Still Too Much however it can be purchased here. UBC Library has an e-copy of Best Canadian Poetry 2020 with Bird’s work. 
   • Room Podcast on Indigenous Brilliance with Brandi Bird & Billy-Ray Belcourt: https://roommagazine.com/the-indigenous-brilliance-podcast-episode-2-april-16-2021-poetry-with-brandi-bird-and-billy-ray-belcourt/  
5. T’áncháy Redvers (findable in libraries as: Tunchai Redvers) is a 2S indigiqueer, social justice warrior, writer, speaker, creator, performer, & actor.
   • UBC titles available at UBC: https://webcat.library.ubc.ca/vwebv/search?searchType=7&searchId=26414&maxResultsPerPage=10&recCount=10&recPointer=0&resultPointer=0&headingId=8909318