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Sexual Orphanings
- GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies
- Duke University Press
- Volume 22, Number 4, 2016
- pp. 605-628
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This essay examines the production of Native queer childhood in nineteenth- and twentieth-century boarding schools. I argue that the schools produced “sexual orphanings” in Native children, which was achieved through education and abuse that queered Native children’s conceptualizations of gender, sexuality, and kinship and produced shame. Sexual orphanings queered children away from their bodies and sexualities, which also worked to orient them away from the future. I turn to Tomson Highway’s