READING LIST
Several books on display topics are available at the La Conner Swinomish Library. Ask your friendly librarian for help finding a great resource!
TWO-SPIRIT & INDIGIQUEER
Kids & Teens
Two Tricksters Find Friendship by Elder Johnny Aitken (Coast Salish;) and Jess Willows, art by Alyssa Koski (Blackfoot Confederacy (Siksikaitsitapi) and Kainai (Blood))
47,000 Beads by Koja Adeyoha (Oglala Lakota) and Angel Adeyoha, art by Holly McGillis
Full-metal Indigiqueer by Joshua Whitehead (Oji-nêhiyaw of Peguis First Nation)
Surviving the City by Tasha Spillet (Cree)
Love Beyond Body, Space, and Time: An Indigenous LGBT Sci-fi Anthology
Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit & Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction, edited by Joshua Whitehead (Oji-nêhiyaw of Peguis First Nation)
Adults
(for more extensive recommendations, please see the reading list links under Online Resources)
Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native America by Matika Wilbur (Swinomish and Tulalip)
Red Paint by Sasha LaPointe (Upper Skagit and Nooksack)
Rose Quartz by Sasha LaPointe (Upper Skagit and Nooksack)
Thunder Song by Sasha LaPointe (Upper Skagit and Nooksack)
ONLINE RESOURCES
Children’s and Young Adult Reading List by Indigenous Library and Information Sciences: https://indigenouslis.ca/two-spirit-and-indigiqueer-childrens-and-ya-book-lists/
Reading list by Wabanaki Two-Spirit Alliance: Two-Spirit Experience: A Reading List | Halifax Public Libraries
Reading List by University of British Columbia: https://guides.library.ubc.ca/c.php?g=714749&p=5256748
What is Two Spirit, Indigiqueer, & LGBTQPAI+? — Indigenous Pride LA
What Is Two-Spirit? Part One: Origins | CMHR
Two-Spirit (Curriculum) — Intl. Day of Pink
“Two-Spirit” – Fiction, Facts & Misuse | Forget Winnetou! Loving in the Wrong Way by Red Haircrow (Chiricahua Apache/Cherokee)
STONEWALL
Kids & Teens
Stonewall: Breaking Out in the Fight for Gay Rights by Ann Bausum
Queer: A Graphic History by Meg-John Barker, art by Julia Scheele
What Was Stonewall? by Nico Medina, art by Jake Murray
The Stonewall Riots: Coming Out in the Streets by Gayle Pitman
Stonewall: A Building. An Uprising. A Revolution by Rob Sanders, art by Jamey Christoph
Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag by Rob Sanders, art by Steven Salerno
Adults
Stonewall: The Definitive Story of the LGBTQ Rights Uprising That Changed America by Martin B Duberman
Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution by David Carter
We Set the Night on Fire: Igniting the Gay Revolution by Martha Shelley
A Queer History of the United States by Michael Bronski
Love and Resistance: Out of the Closet into the Stonewall Era, ed. by Jason Baumann and photographs by Kay Tobin Lahusen and Diana Davies, with a foreword by Roxane Gay
The Stonewall Reader, ed. by The New York Public Library, with a foreword by Edmund White
We Are Everywhere: Protest, Power, and Pride in the History of Queer Liberation by Matthew Riemer and Leighton Brown
ONLINE RESOURCES
Stonewall Reading List from the New York Public Library Stonewall: Core Reading for the Past, Present, and Future | The New York Public Library
Library of Congress LGBTQIA+ Resource Guide: Introduction - LGBTQIA+ Studies: A Resource Guide - Research Guides at Library of Congress
As a Young Native American, I Internalized This Country’s Homophobia by Wren Walker-Robbins (Mohawk)
Park Service erases 'transgender' on Stonewall website, uses the term 'LGB' movement, NPR,
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/14/g-s1-48923/stonewall-monument-transgender-park-service
LGBTQIA Resource Center Glossary from UC Davis
https://lgbtqia.ucdavis.edu/educated/glossary#i