A Queer Indigenous Gathering Remembering, Resisting, Thriving

Brook Colley is Wasco/Warm Springs/Eastern Cherokee, and enrolled in the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. A professor of Native American Studies at Southern Oregon University, her research focuses on federal Indian law and policy, Oregon Tribes, and intertribal relations and conflict. Her book Power in the Telling: Grand Ronde, Warm Springs, and Intertribal Relations in the Casino Era was a finalist for the Frances Fuller Victor Award for General Nonfiction.

Ellie M. Trahern is of white/Kanaka Maoli descent. A PhD student in English literature with a designated emphasis in Native American Studies at UC Davis, her academic work primarily focuses on examining spatial epistemologies in Pacific Indigenous poetics.

Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osoriois a Kanaka Maoli artist/activist/scholar/storyteller born and raised in Pālolo Valley. She is an associate professor of Indigenous and Native Hawaiian Politics at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and the author of the award-winning book Remembering Our Intimacies: Moʻolelo, Aloha ʻĀina, and Ea.

fabian romero is a P'urhépecha poet-scholar. They are an assistant professor in the Department of Comparative Studies and an affiliated faculty member in American Indian Studies and Ethnic Studies at the Ohio State University. Their writing can be found in Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics and Writing the Walls Down: A Convergence of LGBTQ Voices.

Asa Wright is Klamath/Modoc/Yahooskin/Choctaw/Chickasaw and a citizen of the Klamath Tribes. He served as the executive director and arts trainer for the Indigenous Peoples Power Project and was the founder of the Portland Two Spirit Society.

Jordan Bruyn-Fryis a Tribal Peacemaker and enrolled member of the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians. She is dedicated to building community, advocating for justice, and nurturing creativity.

Chava Florendo is a Wasco/Filipina/multiracial photographer, multidisciplinary artist, performer, facilitator, and educator. She believes deeply in the shininess of Indigenous people, as reflected in this book.

Shilo George is Southern Cheyenne-Arapaho and Irish/Scottish. International speaker and owner of Łush Kumtux Tumtum Consulting, their consulting work covers trauma-informed practices and how those practices support anti-racist and anti-oppressive work within organizations and government systems.

Kylan Mattias de Vries is a white queer trans settler scholar. He serves as chair and professor in the Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies and the Sociology and Anthropology programs at Southern Oregon University. He is the coauthor of Transgender Intersections: Race and Gender through Identities, Interactions, and Systems of Power.

Rook Smith is a white queer allied scholar and is invested in centering joy, love, and resistance in their community.