ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to extend the discussion of intimacy as a way to address the embodied nature of dissent that pushes against colonial constructions of subjectivity, resistance and activism. It explores how sex education programs designed by and for Native youth re-imagine power, desire, and the affective dimensions of sexual citizenship through the active re-routing of intimacy and the "erotics of sovereignty". The chapter provides a brief background of a few separate but related literatures to map out the intersections of transnational and Indigenous thinking about intimacy in the United States and Canada as settler colonial societies. It discusses the Native Youth Sexual Health Network as an example of one organization that may serve as a model of decolonial sex education. The chapter also discusses Rifkin's erotics of sovereignty, as a way to appreciate the specific elements and significance of the Native Youth Sexual Health Network.
