Somacultural Liberation: An Indigenous Two-Spirit Somatic Guide to Integrating Cultural Experiences Toward Freedom

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Two-Spirit Indigiqueer psychotherapist and cultural theorist Dr. Roger Kuhn illuminates the ways our bodies offer portals to our own liberation.

Experience somacultural liberation: A revolutionary ideology to explore how our bodies offer portals to personal and collective freedom.

What role does dominant culture play in how we experience the sensations, thoughts, feelings, and deeper existential mysteries of our bodies?

Dr. Roger Kuhn, a Poarch Creek Two-Spirit Indigequeer activist, artist, sex therapist, and somacultural theorist, believes that Two-Spirit people hold a unique perspective—and that viewing our bodies through a somacultural lens can help us better understand how dominant culture informs and, all too often, misinforms our relationship to it.

Somacultural liberation is an embodied practice that helps people connect with the intersections of their identity. Kuhn’s revolutionary mode of inquiry illuminates the full impact of our cultural reality in shaping both our individual and shared sense of self.

The history and experiences of Native American peoples and those who identify as Two-Spirit offer the reader a path to access the full brilliance of their body. Including growth work activities, cultural assessment exercises, mindfulness practices, and nervous system regulation techniques, Somacultural Liberation provides readers with the tools and skills needed to transcend any challenges they may face in their lives.

Straddling colonial imposition and tribal significance, Two-Spirit identity offers a powerful decolonizing framework to achieve freedom and navigate the toxic systems of domination that impose upon the precious truth of who we are.

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Fieldwork: seeking balance through the 5 Rhythms

"Those first hours of the morning, as the crepuscular light rises above the horizon, have always been inspiring to me.  I am reminded of a time in my childhood at 7 years old when I first visited my tribal nation’s reservation in southern Alabama. There was a field on the reservation that I felt called to explore, enraptured by this land that I had heard my mother speak about so many times before. I vividly recall the morning light seeping through the trees as the wind carried the songs of the morning birds.  I remember taking off my shoes, my feet connecting to the bare soil, my toes mingling with the earth.  I am aware of new sensations coursing through my body and I began to stomp my feet. I stomped my feet and moved my body in ways I had never moved before. The dancer within me was suddenly born."

- Roger Kuhn

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"A cutting-edge anthology that opens the door for emergent voices from African American, Indigenous, Latin American, and Asian embodiment traditions to transform  the field of somatics"

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Diverse Bodies, Diverse Practices 

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Critical Sexual Literacy: Forecasting Trends in Sexual Politics, Diversity, and Pedagogy

Chapter: Two-Spirit Love at the BAAITS Powwow 

Anthem Press

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An Intersectional Approach to Sex Therapy: Centering the Lives of Black, Indigenous, Racialized, and People of Color

Chapter: Sexual Sovereignty and Erotic Survivance: Two-Spirit Sexual Health and Vitality

Routledge 

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Two-Spirit Love: Toward an Inclusion of Sexual Sovereignty and Erotic Survivance

PhD Dissertation

Available to download for free here

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