Grace Dillon - Love Beyond Body, Space & Time: An Indigenous LGBT Sci-Fi Anthology

 Grace Dillon also wrote a foreword to Love Beyond Body, Space & Time: An Indigenous LGBT Sci-Fi Anthology. She asserts “colonial gender-binaries and sexual regimes” were “imposed by the legacy of nineteenth-century white manifest destinies,” and that Two-Spirit stories are “refashioning ancestral traditions in order to flourish in the post-Native Apocalypse.” (p.9). She says “SF [science fiction] survivance stories are not about survival. SF survivance stories are about persistence, adaptation, and flourishing in the future, in sometimes subtle but always important contrast to the mere survival, or the self-limiting experience of trauma and loss that often surrenders the imagination to creeds of isolation and victimhood, the apprehension of hopelessness, helpless entitlement to an extirpated past. SF survivance stories project near and far futures where Indigenous peoples reclaim sovereignty and self-determination” (p.9-10).

If you would like to know more about Two Spirit perspectives, I recommend checking out Marie Laing's bookUrban Indigenous Youth Reframing Two Spirit. As a researcher, I find it interesting that she begins the book with an explanation of why she chose not to define Two Spirit. 

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