More Than Bodies: Diné Masculinities in Anticolonial Spaces and Embodied Discursive Action

The article presents interviews with two Diné men, where they describe how they enact and model masculine identities in their anticolonial community organising. The discussions centre on being a cis-hetero Diné man, kinship roles and responsibilities, Diné masculinity and femininity, and what it mea...

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Main Author: J. Jeffery Clark
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Language:English
Published: Centre for Global Indigenous Futures 2025-05-01
Series:Journal of Global Indigeneity
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Online Access:https://www.journalofglobalindigeneity.com/article/138409-more-than-bodies-dine-masculinities-in-anticolonial-spaces-and-embodied-discursive-action
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description The article presents interviews with two Diné men, where they describe how they enact and model masculine identities in their anticolonial community organising. The discussions centre on being a cis-hetero Diné man, kinship roles and responsibilities, Diné masculinity and femininity, and what it means to create healthy masculinity as an anticolonial practice. The article shows how they imagine, enact, and model their masculinity to contest colonial technologies that disavow Diné men of their body, kin, and land. And through the anticolonial Diné masculinity they live out, they demonstrate what embodied discursive action looks like in their work and communities. Their masculinity offers hope for a future beyond settler domination where Diné men are once again decorated with possibilities, love, care, and health.
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More Than Bodies: Diné Masculinities in Anticolonial Spaces and Embodied Discursive Action
Journal of Global Indigeneity
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anticolonial
embodied action
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title More Than Bodies: Diné Masculinities in Anticolonial Spaces and Embodied Discursive Action
title_full More Than Bodies: Diné Masculinities in Anticolonial Spaces and Embodied Discursive Action
title_fullStr More Than Bodies: Diné Masculinities in Anticolonial Spaces and Embodied Discursive Action
title_full_unstemmed More Than Bodies: Diné Masculinities in Anticolonial Spaces and Embodied Discursive Action
title_short More Than Bodies: Diné Masculinities in Anticolonial Spaces and Embodied Discursive Action
title_sort more than bodies dine masculinities in anticolonial spaces and embodied discursive action
topic diné masculinity
anticolonial
embodied action
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