Author of THE CHEROKEE DIASPORA Gregory Smithers's REDISCOVERING TWO-SPIRITS: NATIVE AMERICAN STORIES OF SPIRITUALITY, RESILIENCE, & COMMUNITY, exploring the forgotten Native two-spirits - people that embody both male and female spirits - a concept dating back well over 500 years that both reshapes the past and informs contemporary LGBTQ debates today, to Gayatri Patnaik at Beacon Press.