#native gender

[indigenous-gender]

I’m really sick and tired of colonizers forcing the binary of trans vs cis on Black and Brown ppl. not only do all of us exist outside this binary by virtue of our race, ethnicity, and culture, regardless of our personal identities, but there are many of us who consciously do not identify as either cis or trans. those who are forced into the cis role by colonizers do not identify as cis, and thus are not cis. our gender is not limited to cis or trans, and the commonly accepted definitions of both terms are exclusive of our cultures. I have said many times I was not assigned a gender, so how can I identify or not identify with a gender I was never assigned? my gender is not defined by what was or is forced on me, that’s colonial and imperial. nobody dictates my identity but myself. I’m sick of the way that trans colonizers dehumanize and degrade Black and Brown people who do not identify as trans or cis just because they want them to. Black and Brown people who inherently exist outside colonial gender constructs and terms are deemed “oppressors” for not forcefully being identified as trans. trans colonizers delude themselves into thinking they are victims and somehow oppressed by Black and Brown people. the amount of times I have been silenced and degraded for not identifying myself as the particular colonial terms demanded by trans colonizers. if we do not identify ourselves with these terms we are dehumanized and discarded and treated as worthless, our opinions are gaslit and invalidated and spoken over. the term cis is utterly useless unless you are pretending that race is not central to gender and sexuality. cis means you identify with a gender that was forced on you, which is in line with the colonialism and imperialism which has forced English and colonial genders and sexualities and terms and constructs onto Black and Brown people. how can Black and Brown people identify with genders forced on us? why are we deemed oppressors who victimize the very race that oppresses us, just because we don’t fit their gender constructs and rules? this very issue applies to non binary and non man. Black and Brown people are not binary by virtue of our race, white people ARE the binary because white gender is the binary because whiteness is the binary. white queers are the binary. they oppress Black and Brown people of all identifies yet have convinced themselves we somehow oppress them. how can we be non men when our native languages do not know the words non and man? how can we be defined by what we are not, by a language we do not speak, by a culture we do not belong to?

#indigenous #two spirit #black and brown gender #native #native safe space #guam #native gender #black and brown safe space #chamoru #asian #disabled #africa #chamorro #turtle island #csasurvivor #not binary #chinese #cultural gender #gela’ #sovereignty

[indio-politics]

two spirit culture is being tired of English being centered above all other languages and English gender/sexuality terms and constructs being forced on us

#two spirit #native #indigenous #Black and Brown safe space #native gender #cultural gender #languages #native languages

[crippled-native]

I experience empathy depending on the situation but like it’s hard for me to feel sorry for a white chick who folded in like 2 seconds after saying she’s a bi lesbian and getting support from me and others, like she really deleted her video and made a new one saying she’s just bi and it was wrong of her to call her relationship lesbian. girl, you were valid. you are valid. you absolutely used lesbian correctly and have a right to call your attraction bisexual but relationship lesbian. if two women dating isn’t lesbian THEN WHAT IS 😂😂 but goddam us Black and Brown non mono lesbians don’t have the privilege of assimilating and then being treated like human beings. we are nothing to colonizers no matter what. not sorry but as a triracial native who has NO CHOICE but to be a non mono lesbian I just kinda think you’re weak. I could never fold like that. I’m an Indigenous lesbian and I’m not mono and I’m proud.

#indigenous lesbian #Black and Brown safe space #native gender #two spirit lesbian #aroace #cluster b #empathy

[uncanny-tranny]

At this point, gender nonconformity is about what the person says their experience is.

If a woman with a beard or a man with lipstick and a mustache says they're gender nonconforming, then they are! If a woman with short hair or a man with long hair says they aren't, they aren't! And that's not even getting into the awesome nonbinary, abinary, genderqueer, intersex, and general genderfuckery that may both be and not be conforming.

So much of what is even considered gender conforming or gender nonconforming is based on a world of exclusion. When we start defining one's conformity with whether they fit into white cishetero perisex standards or not, we play into the idea that there's only a very narrow window of what is considered worthy of time and thought.

#gender nonconformity #gnc #queer #like. for instance a native man who keeps long hair might be considered GNC by white standards but for him it's absolutely not nonconformit #there's an aspect of white supremacy that silences everything else while saying that other culture's silence is indicative of whiteness... #...being 'correct' or 'moral' or 'neutral' #and as somebody who's trans and last i checked white i have my own thoughts from my own experiences #like how i don't consider myself to really be a GNC man. i'm just. man+ #i'm a weird concoction of weird soup that tastes like a man but if it were Wrong #and i just don't see that as not conforming to manhood like it is seperate. i see it as irrevocably linked TO manhood #it is others who have excluded and exiled me from manhood because of *their* understanding of me and how i 'fit in' in cissexism #while i will never ever say i know what it's like to not be white i will say these conversations that PoC have started have been INVALUABLE #i am forever grateful to have been extended the patience and faith to listen in on the experiences of people... #...who are racialized in terms of gender and how they do/don't 'fit in' with often white supremacist views on gender/dynamics #may have made a post like this years back but. eh. arrest me officer i will not back down #i've been more and more 'gnc' as i go into my transition and i don't see it as nonconformity but as an outlet for my masculinity #which is why i'm not insecure about my crafts and creations. because it is coming from a male whether or not it's considered 'manly' #i have little to *no place* in cissexist society so why should i put any stakes into if they ~accept~ me #made this post while jamming out to skyrim's tavern OST (paused my game to write this) #why the HELL does the skyrim tavern music have to go SO HARD. i NEED to slam down BARRELS of mead while listening to this istg #i don't even LIKE honey so i haven't tried mead but. for skyrim i would.

[yourdailyqueer]

Shawnee Kish

Gender: Two Spirit (she/her)

Sexuality: Lesbian

DOB: N/A

Ethnicity: First Nation (Mohawk)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Singer, songwriter

#Shawnee Kish #qpoc #bipoc #lgbtq #sapphic #two spirit #third gender #lesbian #first nation #native #native american #poc #canadian #singer #songwriter #popular #popular post

[ciderjacks]

idk why ppl ignore that women, regardless of race or class, experience police violence for being female. Both from on duty and off duty officers. That 40% cops thing is thrown around a lot but no one acknowledges that as hate, that police officers off duty will often use their power as a man and as an officer to beat/kill women. Theres also the cases of police on duty using abortion as an excuse to brutalize and stalk women, police officers raping and murdering women using their power as officers to do it and getting away with it. and then also something no one talks about: the justice system unfairly punishes women if it can. The justice system hates women being free.

Also, “crime of passion” laws still exist, female murder victims and missing women (regardless of race, but especially native women) are rarely taken seriously. And let’s not even get into how women are treated in female prisons, male guards frequently use female prisons as his own personal brothel, and this behaviour is allowed for sometimes years. Oh, and shit let’s also not talk about how many laws are really only created to protect men and arrest girls. Let’s not talk about how many women end up in jail for minor things like drugs and property damage, compared to men.

Let’s also not talk about how poverty and drug addiction connect, and how the patriarchy keeps women in poverty by intentionally underpaying female dominated fields, reducing wages on any field when it becomes female dominated, and underpaying the female workers who happen to work in male dominated fields to keep them poorer than their male counterparts. Let’s not talk about how keeping females and female communities poor is directly contributing to the kind of crime that women are then unfairly targeted for.

let’s really not talk about how all these things connect, how the men in charge of society have set up a system that keeps women poor and trapped, then the men in charge of prison facilities setting up a system where women are locked up in places where they have no control for minor charges, then said men, who now have complete control over these women, use the women who’ve been trapped in these facilities (again, very often for things a man wouldn’t be criminally charged for) as sex slaves, even forcing them to get pregnant….yeah, let’s not talk about how all that connects.

#police brutality #tw sa #sexism #All of this applies especially to black and native women #Who face the worst of this #But it happens to white women asian women latina women etc too #You’re not safe from this treatment just bc ur white or pretty or rich or gender conforming or whatever

[chaos-in-one]

Reminder that gender stereotypes are not universal and that you shouldn't project eurocentric stereotypes onto people of color for what is or isn't "progressive" for them to do.

An example from my own culture is a different expectation for hair. As a Native American, long hair would be considered masculine for me. Many Native men hold a lot of pride in having long hair, it's a part of our culture. Having short hair as a Native American would be gender non-conforming, the eurocentric standard of short hair = masculine doesn't translate to my culture.

Please consider non eurocentric cultures and gender roles when talking about gender stereotypes. For many of us, the stereotypes are not the same as they are for white people.

#feminism #intersectionalism #intersectionality #intersectional feminism #intersectional activism #poc #native american #indigenous #gender stereotypes #gender roles #gender non conforming #gender noncomformity

[neechees]

On that note i saw a chicken dancer whose regalia's main colors were pink & purple, & they had flowers & hearts on their regalia, including a fucking cute pink bustle, I love Native men

#i love the ways Native men defy White gender expectations & dress codes. especially when they do it specifically to spite it

[apocalypticdyke]

! native mspec gay

? for natives who identify as mspec gay

! tags for reach + NOT for trans race + I don't really like this one.. Sorry guys

#。🌀‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ coining #pro mogai #xenogender #mogai identity #mogai label #mogai blog #mogai friendly #mogai community #mogai gender #mogai safe #mogai term #mogai flag #mogai #mogai coining #liom coiner #gender coiner #mogai coiner #liom coining #gender coining #coining post #xeno coining #native #mspec friendly #mspec safe #mspec gay

[indigenous-gender]

white women will have “mean lesbian” in their bio then all but call me a savage Indian for bluntly and fiercely standing up to their racist asses 🤣 what happened to mean lesbian? are u scared of the big Brown mean lesbindian? you know mean lesbian doesn’t give you a pass to be racist right?

#indigenous #native #native gender #cultural gender #Black and Brown lesbian men #lesbian #gela’ #mamflorita #malalåhi #two spirit #aromantic #asexual #ace #aro #aroace #mean Brown lesbian #mean Native lesbian #savage Indian

[indio-politics]

passages from my sociology textbook discussing colonial and Native American gender and sexuality as well as the terms Chicano/a Latino/a Latinx with regard to gender and grammar.

#mine #gender #native gender #two spirit #chicana #Latinx #chican@ #latin@ #indigenous gender #berdache

[crimeronan]

the pro of "crazy dyke" being Your Type (TM) is that it makes you look like you're """One Of The Good Ones (TM)""" or whatever without even trying. you love queer women in fiction & therefore are freed from every fandom conversation about how most people only like the white men. or something. (the truth is you just like women with complex relationships to queerness, womanhood, & oftentimes their cultures as well, for various personal reasons.)

the con of "crazy dyke" being Your Type (TM) is obviously. God Help You if you want to find fandom content exploring your faves with the kind of messy nuance you thrive on.

#it's a very [rolls up sleeves] 'guess i have to do everything myself' kind of situation. #luz and hennessy have almost NOTHING in common personality-wise or values-wise. but wow the crazy dyke is so strong in both of them #being a dyke in a polycule full of dykes who's friends with a bunch of dykes with very complex relationships to race and gender and such #it's like. yeah obviously this is what i'm gonna gravitate toward. this is closest to my lived experience and the experiences of #the ppl surrounding me. you know?? #it's not performative it's just. my life. it's just my life. #having a native american partner and a jewish partner having latine and Black and asian dyke friends #these are the stories that are most interesting to me. and yet. so rarely are they the stories that are most interesting to anyone else #it can be. lonely as hell. lol. this post is tongue-in-cheek i'd rather have people who Get Me in fandom than look performatively good. #u know.

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Malcolm Clark

Published: Jul 18, 2023

The LGBT movement is beginning to behave more like a religious cult than a human-rights lobby. It’s not just the Salem-like witch hunts it pursues against its critics. It’s also its flight from reason and its embrace of magical thinking.

This irrationalism is best illustrated by its recent embrace of the term ‘two-spirit’ (often shortened to ‘2S’), which in North America has been added to the lobby’s ever-growing acronym, meaning we are now expected to refer to – take a deep breath – the ‘2SLGBTQQIA+ community’.

The term two-spirit was first formally endorsed at a conference of Native American gay activists in 1990 in Winnipeg in Canada. It is a catch-all term to cover over 150 different words used by the various Indian tribes to describe what we think of today as gay, trans or various forms of gender-bending, such as cross-dressing. Two-spirit people, the conference declared, combine the masculine and the feminine spirits in one.

From the start, the whole exercise reeked of mystical hooey. Myra Laramee, the woman who proposed the term in 1990, said it had been given to her by ancestor spirits who appeared to her in a dream. The spirits, she said, had both male and female faces.

Incredibly, three decades on, there are now celebrities and politicians who endorse the concept or even identify as two-spirit. The term has found its way into one of Joe Biden’s presidential proclamations and is a constant feature of Canadian premier Justin Trudeau’s doe-eyed bleating about ‘2SLGBTQQIA+ rights’.

The term’s success is no doubt due in part to white guilt. There is a tendency to associate anything Native American with a lost wisdom that is beyond whitey’s comprehension. Ever since Marlon Brando sent ‘Apache’ activist Sacheen Littlefeather to collect his Oscar in 1973, nothing has signalled ethical superiority as much as someone wearing a feather headdress.

The problem is that too many will believe almost any old guff they are told about Native Americans. This is an open invitation to fakery. Ms Littlefeather, for example, may have built a career as a symbol of Native American womanhood. But after her death last year, she was exposed as a member of one of the fastest growing tribes in North America: the Pretendians. Her real name was Marie Louise Cruz. She was born to a white mother and a Mexican father, and her supposed Indian heritage had just been made up.

Much of the fashionable two-spirit shtick is just as fake. For one thing, it’s presented as an acknowledgment of the respect Indian tribes allegedly showed individuals who were gender non-conforming. Yet many of the words that two-spirit effectively replaces are derogatory terms.

In truth, there was a startling range of attitudes to the ‘two-spirited’ among the more than 500 separate indigenous Native American tribes. Certain tribes may have been relaxed about, say, effeminate men. Others were not. In his history of homosexuality, The Construction of Homosexuality (1998), David Greenberg points out that those who are now being called ‘two spirit’ were ridiculed by the Papago, held in contempt by the Choctaws, disliked by the Cocopa, treated by the Seven Nations with ‘the most sovereign contempt’ and “derided” by the Sioux. In the case of the Yuma, who lived in what is now Colorado, the two-spirited were sometimes treated as rape objects for the young men of the tribe.

The contradictions and incoherence of the two-spirit label may be explained by an uncomfortable fact. The two-spirit project was shaped from day one by complete mumbo-jumbo. The 1990 conference that adopted the term was inspired by a seminal book, Living the Spirit: A Gay Indian Anthology, published two years earlier. Its essays were compiled and edited by a young white academic called Will Roscoe. He was the historical adviser to the conference. And his work on gay people in Indian cultural history – a niche genre in the 1980s – had become the received wisdom on the subject.

Roscoe’s work had an unlikely origin story of its own. In 1979, he joined over 200 other naked gay men in the Arizona desert for an event dubbed the ‘Spiritual Conference for Radical Faeries’. It was here where he met Harry Hay, the man who would become his spiritual mentor and whose biography he would go on to write. The event was Hay’s brainchild and was driven by his conviction that gay men’s lives had become spiritually empty and dominated by shallow consumerism. For three days, Roscoe and the other men sought spiritual renewal in meditation, singing and classes in Native American dancing. There were also classes in auto-fellatio, lest anyone doubt this was a gay men’s event.

To say Hay, who died in 2002, was eccentric is to radically understate his weirdness. For one thing, he was a vocal supporter of paedophilia. As such, he once took a sandwich board to a Pride march proclaiming ‘NAMBLA walks with me’, in reference to the paedophilia-advocacy group, the North American Man / Boy Love Association. Hay also believed that gay men were a distinct third gender who had been gifted shamanic powers. According to Hay, these powers were recognised and revered by pre-Christian peoples, from Ancient Greece to, you guessed it, the indigenous tribes of North America.

For years, Hay had been experimenting with sweat lodges and dressing up in Indian garb in ways that would now be criticised as cultural appropriation. Despite this, Roscoe took Hay’s incoherent thesis – that gender-bending and spiritual enlightenment go hand in hand – and turned it into a piece of Native American history.

Unsurprisingly, given its provenance, Roscoe’s work is full of holes and lazy assumptions. To prove that two-spirit people combine the feminine and masculine spirits, Roscoe searched for evidence of gender non-conforming behaviour among the Indian tribes. The problem was that he had to mainly rely on the accounts of white settlers who had little understanding of Native cultures. And even when he didn’t rely on those sources, Roscoe still jumped to the wrong conclusions.

Take, for example, the case of Running Eagle, ‘the virgin woman warrior’ of the Blackfeet tribe, whom Roscoe was the first to label as two-spirit. As a girl, she rebelled against the usual girl chores and insisted on being taught how to hunt and fight. She became a noted warrior and declared she would never marry a man or submit to one.

Of course, none of this really means that Running Eagle was two-spirit, or that the tribe she hailed from was made up of LGBT pioneers. It merely shows that the Blackfeet were smart and adaptable enough to recognise martial talent in a girl and were able to make good use of a remarkable individual. Nevertheless, Roscoe’s description of her has become gospel and Running Eagle is now endlessly cited as an example of a two-spirit.

This is a mind-numbingly reductive approach. It’s based on the presumption that what we think of as feminine and masculine traits are fixed and stable across time and cultures. It dictates that no Native American man or woman who ever breaks a gender taboo or fails to conform to expectations can be anything but two-spirit. This is gender policing on steroids.

The two-spirit term also does Native American cultures a deep disservice. It assumes that 500 different tribes were both homogenous and static. As journalist Mary Annette Pember, herself Ojibwe, argues, it also erases ‘distinct cultural and language differences that Native peoples hold crucial to their identity’.

In some ways, it is entirely unsurprising that the wayward ‘2SLGBTQQIA+’ movement has fastened on to two-spirit, an invented term with a bogus pedigree. Far from paying tribute to Native American cultures in all their richness, it exploits them to make a cheap political point. Harry Hay and his fellow auto-fellators would be proud.

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"Two spirit" is a great way of fabricating an interesting identity when you don't have one. And you can scream at people as "bigots," but without the guilt of lying about your great-grandparents being descendants of Sacagawea.

The fake mysticism goes along neatly with the notion of disembodied sexed thetans ("gender identity") which become trapped between worlds in the wrong meat bodies.

#Malcolm Clark #two spirit #pretendians #native american #native american culture #noble savage #narcissism #narcissistic personality disorder #2SLGBTQ #gender ideology #queer theory #cultural appropriation #religion is a mental illness

[survivethejive]

Navajo elder and historian Wally Brown debunks "two spirit" gender ideology. Full interview on YouTube

#navajo #two spirit #nádleehi #gender #harry hay #anthropology #native american

[wanigeatsadi]

🫧 — native boygirl & manwoman

: someone who is a boygirl and native

: someone who is a manwoman and native

#coining post #mogai coining #mogai flag #mogai gender #xeno coining #xenogender #gender coining #xenogender flag #mogai #mogai safe #xenogenic #for reach #🪼 ; cals flags #🦀 ; gender #indegenous #native

[sunliv]

i have a burning question actually!!!! i was always taught that in english, items and such are it/its, never any other but i’ve seen tons of native english speakers assign other pronouns to stuff, but im biased for having a latin language as my 1st one so-

#i say ‘native eng speakers’ bc most ppl here are i think but if ur language is also not gendered feel free to vote too!! #tell me if this is not ok to ask please #im just very curious bc to me like a computer is a he and a pen is a she but thats bc portuguese #but i wonder if native english speakers do it differently?