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The two-spirit contingent marches at San Francisco Pride in 2013. Two-spirit (also known as two spirit or occasionally twospirited) [a] is a contemporary pan-Indian umbrella term used by some Indigenous North Americans to describe Native people who fulfill a traditional third-gender (or other gender-variant) social role in their communities.
Originally spelled Indigequeer, Cuthand coined the term for the title of the 2004 Vancouver Queer Film Festival's Indigenous/two-spirit Program. He has written that he came up with Indigiqueer "because some LGBTQ Indigenous people don't feel as comfortable with the two-spirit title because it implies some dual gender stuff, which some people ...
Two-Spirit refers to a traditional role in Native American society, but not all indigenous queer people identify with the term. Two-Spirit refers to a traditional role in Native American society ...
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The term Indigiqueer was created by Thirza Cuthand (Plains Cree) in 2004. Unlike Two Spirit and other recent modern identities, Indigiqueer honors and celebrates one's sexual and romantic orientation as well as their gender identity and expression as they both relate to one's indigeneity [ 12 ] There are many indigenous futurisms stories ...
As they fight to reclaim their history, some in Montana’s Two-Spirit community are challenging a state law that defines sex as binary because it ‘infringes’ on their spiritual and cultural ...
Joshua Whitehead is a Canadian First Nations, two spirit poet and novelist. [1]An Oji-Cree member of the Peguis First Nation in Manitoba, [2] he began publishing poetry while pursuing undergraduate studies at the University of Winnipeg.
A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder was co-authored by Mary Louisa Plummer and published by the University of Manitoba Press in 2016. [2] It is the 18th title in the Native History Series published by the press. Methodologically, it combines social science and indigenous oral history. [6]