Sometimes NDNs can be surprised to encounter an Indigenous art community with no NDNs at all, composed of peoples who would wear their skin, put them to their grave, and make them disappear. But invisibility meets NDNs in the city too, in spaces where Indigenous representation can mean identity claims based on vague and distant ancestry. It is invisibility that makes queer and trans NDNs the running kind, the kind that flees to the flashing lights of the city. Visibility is a tricky beast for queer and trans NDNs (or is it invisibility)? In rural places, queer and trans NDNs are somehow both invisible - erased, hidden, made afterthought - and hypervisible, surveilled by white rural and Indigenous communities alike, if they find the codes and customs of a colonial gender binary to be an uncomfortable fit.
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