Selected Publications

Lefebvre, M. (Forthcoming). Diaspora & Return: Queering the Classroom through Cultural Practice. Delgado, L., Ferland, N., Wilson, A. (Eds.), Queering Our Classrooms and Communities: Reimagining Indigenous Education

Lefebvre, M. (2026). Ancestral Skin Marking as Healing and (Re)Connection for Indigenous 2SLGBTQIA++. In D. Kaszas (Ed.), Truly Tribal Contemporary Indigenous Tattooing. Fernwood Publishing.

Smith, M., Lefebvre, M., & Leggett, S. (2025). Making Family (Famii) and Building our Nation in the diaspora: Red River Métis experiences in Quebec. Pawaatamihk: Journal of Métis Thinkers.

Kaszas, D. (2023). A. Clyburn, M. Lefebvre, M. Tamez (Eds.) Nlaka’pamux Visual Dictionary: A Knowledge Basket.

Fast, E., Lefebvre, M., Reid, C., Deer, B.W., Swiftwolfe, D., Clark, M., Boldo, V., Mackie, J., Tutanuak, K., Mackie, R. (2021). Restoring our Roots: Land-based community by and for Indigenous youth. International Journal of Indigenous Health.

Lefebvre, M., Fast, E. (2021). Indigenous perspectives on Child and Youth Care Ethics. Varda Mann- Feder. Doing Ethics in Child and Youth Care: A North American Primer. Canadian Scholar / Women’s Press.

Fast, E., Lefebvre, M., Boldo, V., Clark, M., Smith, S., Richardson, C. (2019). Coming together around the fire to understand M(m)étis identities in Québec. Red Rising Magazine.

Fast, E., Lefebvre, M., Boldo, V., Nakuset, Philips, A., Lamore, L. (2019). One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Child Welfare Services for Indigenous Clientele Living in Montreal.

THESIS & DISSERTATION

Lefebvre, M. (2024). Healing Through Ancestral Skin Marking: Traditional Tattooing as Healing and (Re)connection for Indigenous People, with a Focus on Indigenous 2SLGBTQIA+ and Indigenous Women. [Doctoral dissertation, Concordia University]. Spectrum: Concordia University Research Repository.

Lefebvre, M. (Host). (2020) kiyanâw maskihkîwakan : our medicines – stories of indigenous 2SLGBTQIA+ and indigenous women as we explore decolonization, collective care and self care. [Audio podcast].

Lefebvre, Melanie (2020) Centering Stories by Urban Indigiqueers/Trans/Two-Spirit and Indigenous Women on Practices of Decolonization, Collective-care and Self-care. Masters thesis, Concordia University.