In this episode, Thomas discusses the history and complexity of Two-Spirit identities.
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images:
1 A widely used Two-Spirit flag
2 7. Poster for Bay Area Two-Spirit powwow, 2017
3 Poster for Beaver Hills Two-Spirit powwow, 2023
4 The cover of Not Vanishing by Chrystos (Menominee)
5 Cover art for Orchestral Powwow by Cris Derksen (Cree)
6 The cover of Love Beyond Body, Space, and Time, a collection of Two-Spirit sci-fi
7 Miss Chief Eagle Testikle, Kent Monkman (Cree)
8 Osh-Tisch (Crow)
9 We'wha (Zuni)
10 The cover of Full-Metal Indigiqueer by Joshua Whitehead (Oji-Cree)

Sources:
Chrystos. Not Vanishing. Vancouver: Press Gang Publishing, 1988. Driskill, Qwo-Li. Asegi Stories. Cherokee

Queer and Two Spirit Memory. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2016. Driskill, Qwo-Li, Chris Finley, Brian JosephGilley, and Scott Lauria Morgensen, eds.

Queer Indigenous Studies. Critical Interventions in Theory, Politics, and Literature. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2011. Driskill, Qwo-Li, Daniel Heath Justice, Deborah Miranda, and Lisa Tatonetti, eds.

Sovereign Erotics. A collection of Two-Spirit Literature. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2011. Jacobs, Sue-Ellen, Wesley Thomas, and Sabine Lang, eds.

Two-Spirit People. Native American Gender Identity, Sexuality, and Spirituality. Champaign: University of IllinoisPress, 1997.

Roscoe, Will. Changing Ones: Third and Fourth Genders in Native North America. London: Macmillan, 1998. Sigal, Pete, ed.

Infamous Desire. Male Homosexuality in Colonial Latin America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.

Smith, Merril, ed. Sex and Sexuality in Early America. NewYork: New York University Press, 1998.

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“Two-Spirit, One Motion”

Genre(s): Environmental Portrait Photography, Documentary Photography

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“4th annual 2-Spirit Powwow (Part 2)”

Genre(s): Documentary Photography, Environmental Portrait Photography

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“4th annual 2-Spirit Powwow (Part 1)”

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