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Indigiqueer

Indigiqueer adjective: both Indigenous and queer.

Adjective

Indigiqueer (comparative more Indigiqueer, superlative most Indigiqueer)

  1. (Canada) Both Indigenous and queer.
    • Two-Spirit Oji-nêhiyaw writer Joshua Whitehead, in the kinanâskomitin (acknowledgements) to his novel Jonny Appleseed – the story of a young Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer cybersex worker – declares that the novel aims to show 'that Two-Spirit and queer Indigenous folx are not a "was", that we are not the...2022, Kit Heyam, Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender, New York, N.Y.: Seal Press, →ISBN, page 193

Forms of Indigiqueer

comparativemore Indigiqueer
superlativemost Indigiqueer
alternative formIndigequeer

Origin of Indigiqueer

Blend of Indigenous + queer.

Questions about Indigiqueer

What does Indigiqueer mean?
Indigiqueer means both Indigenous and queer.
What part of speech is Indigiqueer?
Indigiqueer is an adjective.

Words near Indigiqueer in the dictionary

  1. indigestive
  2. indigestly
  3. indigests
  4. indigine
  5. indigines
  6. Indigiqueer
  7. indigirite
  8. Indigirka
  9. indigitate
  10. indigitated
  11. indigitates

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