Answer one of the following essay prompts in a two-page response.To cite quotes
Answer one of the following essay prompts in a two-page response.To cite quotes please use in-text citations: (Author’s last name, page #) e.g. (Morgensen, 20). You will need to incorporate and explain 2 direct quotes from the Morgensen “Conversations on Berdache” reading.
1. How can intersectionality and anti-colonialism be better incorporated within the queer/LGBTQ+ community and its political demands? 2. Where does the term Two-Spirit come from? Why did Native queer people come up with this term? Do you think it fits into the LGBTQ+ acronym? Why or why not?
3. How have Native conceptualizations of gender and sexuality challenged Western queer and feminist theories that often rely on binary gender assumptions? 4. Connect Mogensen’s “Conversations on Berdache” reading to one of the other texts we have read this semester. Why do you think these two texts should be thought about together?