Welcome to the Apocalibrary! In this Queers at the End of the World Presents, Nina takes us through some recommendations of exciting dystopian fiction that’s either authored by queer, trans or two spirit Indigenous authors, or includes queer, trans, and two spirit representation.
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Nature Poem by Tommy Pico follows Teebs—a young, queer, American Indian (or NDN) poet—who can’t bring himself to write a nature poem. You can also check out Pico’s podcast, Food 4 Thot, here.
In The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline, Humanity has nearly destroyed its world through global warming, but now an even greater evil lurks. The indigenous people of North America are being hunted and harvested for their bone marrow, which carries the key to recovering something the rest of the population has lost: the ability to dream.
In series debut Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse, you’ll encounter an epic adventure exploring the decadence of power amidst the weight of history and the struggle of individuals swimming against the confines of society and their broken pasts.
Daniel Heath Justice’s Thorn and Thunder novels are set in a world resembling eighteenth-century North America. The story of the struggle for the green world of the Everland, home of the forest-dwelling Kyn, is an adventure tale that bends genre and gender.
Currently out of print (look for it at your local library), Red Spider White Web by Misha Nogha is set in a truly nightmarish cyberpunk dystopia where our protagonist, hybrid human/wolverine person Kumo, struggles to survive as a holo-artist in a world of trash, synthetic food, and violence.
Love Beyond Body, Space, and Time is a collection of indigenous science fiction and urban fantasy focusing on LGBT and two-spirit characters.
Love After the End edited by Joshua Whitehead is a fiction collection showcasing a number of new and emerging 2SQ (Two-Spirit and queer) Indigenous writers from across Turtle Island. These authors show how queer Indigenous communities can bloom and thrive through utopian narratives that detail the vivacity and strength of 2SQness throughout its plight in the maw of settler colonialism’s histories.
