In Cherokee Asegi udanto refers to people who either fall outside of men's and women's roles or who mix men's and women's roles.
Asegi , which translates as strange, is also used by some Cherokees as a term similar to queer.
For author Qwo-Li Driskill, asegi provides a means by which to reread Cherokee history in order to listen for those stories rendered strange by colonial heteropatriarchy.
As the first full-length work of scholarship to develop a tribally spe.
University Of Arizona Press Asegi stories: cherokee queer and two-spirit memory, paperback/qwo-li driskill
