Two-Spirit
Stolen From Our Bodies: First Nations Two-Spirits/Queers and the Journey to a Sovereign Erotic
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Qwo-Li Driskill
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 16, no. 2, Summer, 2004, pp. 50-64
Description
Contends that Native American gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender authors are creating works that facilitate healing the erotic wholeness of those who have suffered historical trauma.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 50.
Strategic Plan For the Years 2001 - 2006
Alternate Title
Ontario Aboriginal HIV/AIDS Strategy: Strategic Plan For the Years 2001 - 2006
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ontario Aboriginal HIV/AIDS Strategy
Description
Outlines prevention and support for Aboriginal communities impacted by HIV in Ontario.
This Bridge of Two Backs: Making the Two-Spirit Erotics of Community
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sophie Mayer
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 20, no. 1, Spring, 2008, pp. 1-26
Description
Discusses several anthologies that focus on Native American erotic literature.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 1.
Thunder Finder
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kaitrina L. Harrisson
M'Wikwedong Youth Group
Carlos E. Sanchez-Pimienta
Jeffrey Masuda
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 13, no. 2, Special Audiovisual Edition, 2019, p. [9]
Description
Links to a short video biography of Little Thunder Woman (Katrina Harrison) in which the narrator discusses her experiences and the teachings she has received as a two-spirit person.
Thunder Finder
Duration: 3:10
To' Kee Skuy' Soo Ney-Wo-Chek' I Will See You Again in a Good Way: A Year 1 Project Report on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two Spirit People in Northern California
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Abby Abinanti
Angi Cavaliere
Alanna Nulph
Blythe George
Anitta Lucchesi ... [et al.]
Centre for Victim Research, 2020, pp. 3-146
Description
A report of quantitative and qualitative data collected from friends and family of missing and murders Indigenous females in Northern California.
To' Kee Skuy' Soo Ney-Wo-Chek' = I Will See You Again in a Good Way: A Year 1 Project Report on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two Spirit People of Northern California
Alternate Title
To' Kee Skuy' Soo Ney-Wo-Chek' = I Will See You Again in a Good Way Progress Report
To' Kee Skuy' Soo Ney-Wo-Chek' = I Will See You Again in a Good Way: Year 2 Progress Report
Year 2 Progress Report: Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls & Two Spirit People of Northern California
E-Books
Author/Creator
[Abby Abinanti
Angi Cavaliere
Alanna Nulph
Blythe K. George
Annita Lucchesi … [et al.]]
Description
Related material: Year 2 Progress Report.
Tranny Tricks: The Blending and Contouring of Raranga Research
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Tawhanga Nopera
Journal of Global Indigeneity, vol. 1, no. 1, Cultured Queer/Queering Culture Symposium, 2015, p. article 6
Description
Uses Kaupapa Maori theory as a tool to explore relationship between identity and social power.
Accompanying interview.
Accompanying presentation.
Two Spirit and Queer Indigenous Resurgence through Sci-Fi Futurisms, Doubleweaving, and Historical Re-Imaginings: A Review Essay
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Smokii Sumac
Transmotion, vol. 3, no. 2, December 6, 2017, pp. 168-175
Description
Literary Criticism article examines Love Beyond Body Space and Time: An Indigenous LGBT Sci-fi Anthology edited by Hope Nicholson and Asegi Stories: Cherokee Queer and Two-Spirit Memory by Qwo-Li Driskill and how the speculative nature of the texts helps to reclaim IndigiQueer and LGBTQ identities.
Two-Spirit and Queer Trans People Colour: Reflecting on the Call to Conversation Conference (C2C)
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Chantal Fiola
Sharanpal Ruprai
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 39, no. 1, 2019, pp. 45-63
Description
Highlights the collaboration and community building between two-spirit and queer/trans Indigenous and people of colour.
Two-Spirit People: Then and Now: Reclaiming Our Place and Honor
Alternate Title
Two-Spirit Tuesdays! Learning Community, Part 2
[Mending the Broken Sacred Circle]
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Harlan Pruden
Description
Webinar presenter provides historical context for the term and the cultural norms that accompanied it, and a general discussion about traditional and contemporary views on sexuality and gender diversity.
Duration: 1:00:24.
Two-Spirited Aboriginal People: Continuing Cultural Appropriation by Non-Aboriginal Society
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michelle Cameron
Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 24, no. 2/3, Lesbian, Bisexual, Queer, Transsexual / Transgender Sexualities, Winter/Spring, 2005, pp. 123-127
Description
Argues that there is a specific cultural context to the term and therefore it is inappropriate for use by those who are not Aboriginal.
Two-Spirited People and Social Work Practice: Exploring the History of Aboriginal Gender and Sexual Diversity
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jill Alaers
Critical Social Work, vol. 11, no. 1, Special Indigenous Issue, 2010, pp. 63-79
Description
Examines the history of Aboriginal cross-gender roles and discusses approaches to improve the quality of social work practices by including traditional Aboriginal practices and worldviews.
Two Spirits, Nádleeh, and LGBTQ2 Navajo Gaze
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gabriel S. Estrada
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 35, no. 4, 2011, pp. 167-190
Description
Discussion of film Two Spirits which depicts murder of Fred Martinez. Also discusses the films interpretation of relationship between Navajo culture, religion and two spirit people.
Two-Spirits’ Response to COVID-19: Survey Findings in Atlantic Canada Identify Priorities and Developing Practices
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John R. Sylliboy
Naomi Bird
Evan Butler
Gage Perley
Kehisha Wilmot
International Journal of Indigenous Health, vol. 17, no. 1, 2022, pp. 14-25
Description
Discusses the impact of the COVID pandemic on the two-spirit Indigenous populations in Atlantic Canada and how the response of the Wabanaki Two-Spirit Alliance (W2SA).
Unsettling Spaces: Grassroots Responses to Canada's Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women During the Harper Government Years
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Samira Saramo
Comparative American Studies, vol. 14, no. 3-4, 2016, pp. 204-220
Description
Contends that colonialism and patriarchy have attempted to marginalize Indigenous womanhood thus allowing racialised and gendered violence to flourish.
Victimization, Substance Use, and HIV Risk Behaviors among Gay/Bisexual/Two-Spirit and Heterosexual American Indian Men in New York City
Alternate Title
Victimization, Substance Use, and HIV Risk Behaviors among Gay / Bisexual / Two-Spirit and Heterosexual American Indian Men in New York City
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jane M. Simoni
Karina L. Walters
Kimberly F. Balsam
Seth B. Meyers
American Journal of Public Health, vol. 96, no. 12, December 2006, pp. 2240-2245
Description
Argues that two-spirited men are a vulnerable population whose victimization must be understood within an appropriate historical and political context.
Visible Sexualities or Invisible Nations: Forced to Choose in Big Eden, Johnny Greyeyes, and The Business of Fancydancing
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lisa Tatonetti
GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, vol. 16, no. 1-2, 2010, pp. 157-181
Description
Discusses the construction of two-spirit identities, and the theme of division in three contemporary narrative films, showing how they continue to mirror the ongoing legacy of settler colonialism.
Visualizing Gender Variability in Plains Indian Pictographic Art
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Max Carocci
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 33, no. 1, 2009, pp. 1-22
Description
Contends that the interpretation of pictographic images that illustrate two-spirited people is complex and not straightforward.
Voices of Two-Spirited Men [Part 1]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
LaVerne Monette
Darcy Albert
Judith Waalen
Description
Survey showed that half of respondents were HIV positive, many of whom did not seek medical treatment because of discrimination.
Access Voices of Two-Spirited Men [Part 2].
We'wha and Klah: the American Indian Berdache as Artist and Priest
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Will Roscoe
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 12, no. 2, Spring, 1988, pp. 127-150
Description
Comparison of the careers of the Zuni potter and weaver and the Navajo medicine man and artist, both important historical figures.
We'wha and Klah the American Indian Berdache as Artist and Priest
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Will Roscoe
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 12, no. 2, Spring, 1988, pp. 127-150
Description
Looks into the lives of the Berdache or gender-mixed Indigenous leaders We'wha and Klah and how their gender status provided them with a variety of unique skills, insights, and interaction with the rest of American society.
Weaving the Present, Writing the Future: Benaway, Belcourt, and Whitehead's Queer Indigenous Imaginaries
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Lisa Tatonetti
Transmotion, vol. 4, no. 2, Genocide Special Issue, December 30, 2018, pp. 153-159
Description
Literary criticism article which examines the ways that contemporary queer and Two-Spirit authors are creating a cultural resurgence and decolonizing Indigenous sexualities.
[Webisode 8: Tony Nobis]
Alternate Title
Thinking Positive
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Valerie Pringle
Tony Nobis
Description
Coordinator of Volunteer Services and Development at 2-Spirited People of the 1st Nations organization, located in Toronto, discusses the high rates of AIDS in Aboriginal communities and challenges associated with HIV.
Duration: 5:55.
"When My Hands Are Empty / I Will Be Full": Visualizing Two-Spirit Bodies in Chrystos's Not Vanishing
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Crystal Veronie
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 31, no. 1-2, Spring-Summer, 2019, pp. 83-114
Description
Literary criticism article that gives close readings of work from Chrystos's Not Vanishing; argues that Chrystos’s poetry work combat the rhetorical invisibility experience by two-spirit and queer Indigenous people in contemporary feminist movements.
Winnebago Berdache
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nancy Oestreich Lurie
American Anthropologist, vol. 55, no. 5, New Series, December 1953, pp. 708-712
Description
The author provides an overview of berdache in Winnebago society in the early 1900s; observations are based on interviews conducted during 1947-49.
“Women and 2spirits”: On the Marginalization of Transgender Indigenous People in Activist Rhetoric
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kai Pyle
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43, no. 3, [Indigeneity, Feminism, Activism], 2019, pp. 85-94
Description
A discussion on how use of the term "women and 2spirit" has been used to advocate gender issues but is also problematic because it can marginalize transgendered people from larger Indigenous activist causes.