Tag: Indigenous History
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Visiting Mount Denali: The Importance of a Name, Queer Travel and Indigenous History
No queer travelogue through Alaska would be complete without a visit to Mount Denali, North America’s tallest mountain. Though I didn’t connect with anyone for All the Genders on this stretch, I found comfort traveling here as a queer person and want to share both the awe of the mountain and the layered history behind…
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Queer and Indigenous in Bethel (Mamterilleq): Stories of Visibility, Silence, and Survival on the Edge of Alaska
Bethel, Alaska—a remote Yu’pik-majority town nestled deep in the Yukon Delta—reveals the complexities of queer life at the intersections of culture, colonization, and climate change. In this reflection from “All the Genders” photo project, I share what I learned from queer locals and allies navigating visibility in a place where identity often stays quiet for…