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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.
The term has been culturally appropriated by non-Indigenous people.
Two-Spirit refers to a traditional role in Native American society, but not all indigenous queer people identify with the term.
The nádleehi social and ceremonial role differs from other two-spirit roles in that it is specific to Diné culture and communities; other Nations that have roles for two-spirits – if they have them at all [4] – have names in their own languages, and roles and other details tend to be specific to those particular cultures. [1]
Russian travelers making early contact with the Aleuts mention traditional tales of two-spirits or third and fourth gender people, known as ayagigux̂ (male-bodied, 'man transformed into a woman') and tayagigux̂ (female-bodied, 'woman transformed into a man'), but it is unclear whether these tales are about historical individuals or spirits. [35]
Two-Spirits, an umbrella term sometimes used for what was once commonly known as berdaches; The Two Souls of Socialism, a socialist pamphlet that posits a fundamental division in socialist thought and action
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The novel Huon de Bordeaux (early 13th century) mixes two categories of spirits: the spirits spoken of by theologians (angels, demons, etc.), and the spirits spoken of by storytellers (dwarfs, giants, ogres, evil animals, etc).