Chokma. My name is Hann Scurlock (they/them), and I am a member of the Chickasaw nation.

My research explores the triangulated relations between Black, Indigenous, and white queer communities in contemporary Indigenous and Black literature. In particular, I am interested in literature exploring the persistence of kinship in Black and Indigenous queer communities despite the collective colonial experience of gender and sexual violence. I explore how this kinship persistence propels decolonized, radical futures by dismantling the binary ideology fundamental to the colonization of Indigenous peoples. Some authors I engage with include Joshua Whitehead (Oji-Cree), Dionne Brand, Chrystos (Menominee), and Tommy Pico (Kumeyaay).