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This article will analyze how the Mojave poet Natalie Diaz identifies decolonized queer and lesbian identities as potential modes of transgressive border-crossing and repair that can generate epistemological, ethical, and ontological disruptions in a world ravaged by colonial displacement. In her two poetry collections, When My Brother Was an Aztec and Postcolonial Love Poem, Diaz crafts a poetics specifically tailored to three intertwined goals: revisiting traumatic history on three different levels (individual/personal, family, community) in order to counter hegemonic erasures on which is founded an illegitimate national imaginary; questioning the legitimacy of all borders imposed by ongoing colonial rule –whether geographical, social, or sexual; and articulating lesbian Indigenous desire as a means to create new types of kinship and reopen a sense of futurity.

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