In part two of our series on Two-Spirit wellbeing, we continue our conversation with Souksavanh T. Keovorabouth, who is a Diné and Laotian PhD student in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Oregon State University. We dive into a discussion about Two-Spirit Autonomy, and sex and pleasure outside hetero norms. Souksavanh shares how experiencing pleasure can be an expression of sovereignty.
Souksavanh T. Keovorabouth, Diné/Laotian (they, them, theirs) is a Ph.D. student at Oregon State University in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program with a minor in Queer Studies and a certificate in Geographic Information Systems. Souksavanh is also a Cotutelle student where they are a Ph.D. Candidate at Macquarie University in Indigenous Studies. Prior to Oregon State University, they received a dual bachelors and masters at the University of Arizona in Sustainable Built Environments and American Indian Studies. Their concentrated area of research is on Indigenous urban experience, Two-Spirit wellbeing, Relocation Act of 1950, Native and Queer urbanization, BIPOC Masculinities, and Missing and Murdered Indigenous women, girls, and Two-Spirit in urban areas.
Resources:
Andrew Jolivette on Thrivance https://ethnicstudies.ucsd.edu/people/jolivette.html
Qwo Li Driskill on Sovereign Erotics https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/sovereign-erotics
Leean Simpson on Body Sovereignty - “As we have always done - How to build Indigenous resistance movements that refuse the destructive thinking of settler colonialism” https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/as-we-have-always-done
Connect with Souksavanh:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/souksavanh.t.keovorabouth/
Learn more about their work: https://linktr.ee/Souksavanh.T.Keovorabouth
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