Qwo-Li Driskill: Dragonfly Rising

Film Screenings of heart breaks open
Directed by billie rain. Produced by basil shadid.
More information on the poetry in the film.

Jan 13, 2012: Olympia Film Society. Capitol Theatre, Olympia, Washington
Feb 17 to 26, 2012: DVD & Video On Demand Release

Seattle Book Release for Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature
January 5, 2012
7 PM
The Vera Project
Seattle, WA
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University of Michigan
Guest Lectures for Dr. Petra Kuppers. "Disability Culture" and "Two-Spirit Literatures."
November 21 & 22, 2011
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Old Dominion University
"Two-Spirit People: Resistance and Decolonization."
November 9, 2011
6 PM, Rector's Room
Norfolk, Virginia
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Ottawa Launch of Queer Indigenous Studies: Critical Interventions in Theory, Politics, and Literature
Featuring Andrea Smith, Qwo-Li Driskill, and Scott Morgensen
Monday July 4th, 5:30pm-7pm
Venus Envy, 320 Lisgar Street, Ottawa
Co-Sponsored by the Native Youth Sexual Health Network.
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Indigenous Feminisms ROCK!
with Jessica Yee (Host), Lee Maracle, Andrea Smith, and performance by Alida Kinnie Starr.
July 4, 2011
Alumni Auditorium, University of Ottawa (Jock Turcot University Centre, Main Floor)
85 University Private
Ottawa, ON
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Two Spirits: Contemporary Custodians of the Ancient Art of Gender Blending
May 27, 2011, 7 PM
de Young Museum, Koret Auditorium
San Francisco, CA

Roundtable at NAISA
May 19-21, 2011
Sacramento, CA

Events at Rutgers University
April 21 & 22, 2011

Rainbow Writers Series: Conversations and Readings with Queer Writers of Color
Reading and Discussion of Walking with Ghosts: Poems.
April 22, 2011
4:30 PM, 202 ABC, Livingston Student Center
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Revolutionary Readings
April 22, 2011
8:00 PM NJC Lounge, 2nd floor of Douglas Campus Center

Discussion with Graduate Students in Women's and Gender Studies
2:00 PM

Events at the Conference on College Composition and Communication
April 6-9, 2011
Atlanta, GA

Standing Peachtree: Trading Ideas About American Indian Rhetorical Texts with "All Our Relations"
Workshop Co-Facilitator.

The Missionary Position: Asegi Stories, Colonization, and Cherokee Genders/Sexualities
Presentation. Featured Session: "Cherokee and US Relations: Contested Spaces and Rhetorical and Cultural Colonization" with Rose Gubele and Resa Crane Bizarro. Angela Haas, Chair.
April 7

Chair, Featured Session. Rhetorics of Racism, Protest, and Alliance: Decolonial (Multi)-media(ted) Responses to AZ SB1070.
Panelists: Casie Cobos, Angela Haas, and Marcos Del Hierro.
April 8

Events at East Carolina University
Greenville, NC
March 24, 2011
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Asegi Diganogidv/Queer Songs: Cherokee Poetry and Two-Spirit Resistance
3rd Annual Teague-Crumpler Lecture

Language, Diversity, and the Writing Classroom

Critical Ethnic Studies and the Future of Genocide.
Panel with Chris Finley, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Vanita Reddy."Performing Radical Alliances: Queer Decolonizations and Native/South Asian American Critiques."

March 10, 2011
UC Riverside, Riverside CA.

University of Texas, Austin TX
Guest Lecture: "Native Rhetorics."
March 7, 2011

Mangos with Chili Roving QTPOC Art Apocalypse

Download a Mangos with Chili postcard here!
Qwo-Li was blessed to be able to join Zuleikha Mahmood, Vixen Noir, Nar, Tre Vasquez, Nico Dacumos, Ms. Cherry Gallete and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha for Mangos with Chili's 2008 Queer Borderlands Tour. The tour took us down the California coast and across the Southwest from October 10-26. Go Mangos! Go Sharks!