Beyond the Wonderland of Whiteness

Queer Indigenous screen representation: beyond a gift from the past or a problem to be solved

“…Indigenous characters on screen have been positioned as a gift from the past demonstrating innate heroic characteristics (Moreton, 2023a), or a problem to be solved in the form of a tragic Indigenous person unable to rise above the trappings of colonial rule (Moreton, 2023b). That these archetypes are framed as positive representations is at odds with the need to demonstrate the complexity of First Nations peoples (Hickling-Hudson, 1990; Kelada & Clark, 2019; Moreton, 2016).…”