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Two-Spirited People Web Resources

Collected by: University of Winnipeg

Archived since: Oct, 2019

Description:

The mission of the Two-Spirit Archives at the University of Winnipeg Library is to develop an internationally-renowned centre for research that supports the needs of the Two-Spirit community; makes Two-Spirit people visible in our documentary heritage; and supports the research, teaching, learning, and community mandates of the University. It is guided in its development by the Two-Spirit Archives Advisory Council, which ensures Two-Spirit people are central to preserving the history of their contributions to society and in strengthening their community. In collaboration with the Two-Spirited People of Manitoba, Inc., the University of Winnipeg Library has curated and captured a selection of webpages, video, social media, news coverage, and resources that pertain to Two-Spirit people. This growing collection covers a diverse range of topics, which include websites of Two-Spirit organizations in North America, film and video created by and about Two-Spirited people, written resources and tools, Two-Spirit autobiographies and narratives, visual art, archival collections, conferences and outreach, and social media. This is an ongoing web-archiving project that will continue to grow as more Two-Spirited material continues to be published on the Internet. We gratefully acknowledge the knowledge, support, and resources shared by the Two-Spirited People of Manitoba, Inc.

Subject:   Society & Culture Pride Indigenous knowledge Indigenous authors Indigenous art--North America Indigenous Sexuality Gender Narratives Homophobia--Canada Two-spirit People--North America Two-spirit People--Canada

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Title: Chrystos on Queer Native America

URL: http://www.thegully.com/essays/gaymundo/020313_chrystos_native_gay.html

Description: March 13, 2002 interview with Chrystos, Native American poet, artist, and activist, who talks to The Gully about queer Native America and the de-queerifying of mainstream queers.

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Subject:   Two-Spirit People--North America Two-Spirit People--United States Indigenous Art--North America Indigenous Author--United States Fugitive Colors Dream On Not Vanishing

Title: Tomson Highway

URL: http://www.tomsonhighway.com/

Description: Tomson Highway is the proud son of legendary caribou hunter and world championship dogsled racer, Joe Highway, and artist-in-her-own-right (as bead-worker and quilt-maker extraordinaire), Pelagie Highway. A full-blood Cree, he is a registered member of the Barren Lands First Nation, the village for which is called Brochet (pronounced "Bro-shay") and which village is located in northern Manitoba where it meets Saskatchewan and what is now called Nunavut. Today, he writes novels, plays, and music for a living. Having studied music and English literature at the Universities of Manitoba (Winnipeg) and Western Ontario (London), as well as in England, he earned both his Bachelor of Music Honours (Piano Performance major, 1975) and the equivalent of a Bachelor of Arts (English major, 1976), both from "Western."

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Subject:   Two-Spirit People--Canada Two-Spirit People--North America Indigenous Art--North America Indigenous Author--Canada Barren Lands First Nation Kiss of the Fur Queen The Rez Sisters Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing

Title: Gwen Benaway

URL: https://gwenbenaway.com/

Description: Gwen Benaway is a trans girl of Anishinaabe and Métis descent. She has published three collections of poetry, Ceremonies for the Dead, Passage, and Holy Wild, and was the editor for an anthology of fantasy short stories, Maiden Mother and Crone: Fantastical Trans Femmes. Her writing has been critically acclaimed and widely published in Canada. She was a finalist for the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ writers from the Writer’s Trust of Canada, the Lambda Literary Award for Trans Poetry, and the National Magazine Awards and Digital Publishing Awards for her personal essay, A Body Like A Home. Her fourth collection of poetry, Aperture, is forthcoming from Book*hug in Spring 2020. She is also currently editing a book of creative non-fiction, trans girl in love, forthcoming from Strange Light in 2020. She lives in Toronto, Ontario and is a Ph.D student at the University of Toronto in the Women and Gender Studies Institute.

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Subject:   Two-Spirit People--Canada Two-Spirit People--North America Indigenous Art--North America Indigenous Author--Canada Anishinaabe Métis Ceremonies for the Dead Passage Holy Wild

Title: University of Manitoba Press’ latest book: A Two-Spirit Journey by Ma-Nee Chacaby

URL: https://news.umanitoba.ca/um-press-latest-book-the-autobiography-of-a-lesbian-ojibwa-cree-elder/

Description: University of Manitoba Press is publishing the autobiography of Ma-Nee Chacaby, a lesbian Objibwa-Cree Elder from Thunder Bay. A Two-Spirit Journey is Ma-Nee Chacaby’s extraordinary account of her life as an Ojibwa-Cree lesbian. From her early, often harrowing memories of life and abuse in a remote Ojibwa community riven by poverty and alcoholism, Chacaby’s story is one of enduring and ultimately overcoming the social, economic, and health legacies of colonialism.

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Subject:   Two-Spirit People--Canada Two-Spirit People--North America Indigenous Art--North America Indigenous Author--Canada Ojibwa-Cree A Two-Spirit Journey University of Manitoba

Title: What being two-spirit means to Indigenous elder Ma-Nee Chacaby

URL: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thenextchapter/andrew-pyper-kim-izzo-and-the-mystery-panel-1.4161894/what-being-two-spirit-means-to-indigenous-elder-ma-nee-chacaby-1.4162460

Description: Ma-Nee Chacaby is a two-spirit Ojibwa-Cree elder. She uses the term "two-spirit" to mean she carries both a male and a female spirit inside. Even though two-spirited individuals were important in pre-colonial Indigenous communities, Chacaby received intense backlash when she came out as lesbian over 30 years ago. Her memoir, A Two-Spirit Journey, details those struggles — and how she thrived.

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Subject:   Two-Spirit People--Canada Two-Spirit People--North America Indigenous Art--North America Indigenous Author--Canada Ojibwa-Cree A Two-Spirit Journey

Title: Joshua Whitehead

URL: https://www.joshuawhitehead.ca/

Description: Joshua Whitehead (he/him) is a Two-Spirit, Oji-nêhiyaw member of Peguis First Nation (Treaty 1). He is currently a Ph.D. candidate, lecturer, and Killam scholar at the University of Calgary where he studies Indigenous literatures and cultures with a focus on gender and sexuality. His dissertation, tentatively titled "Feral Fatalisms," is a hybrid narrative of theory, essay, and non-fiction that interrogates the role of "ferality" inherent within Indigenous ways of being (with a strong focus on nêhiyawewin). He is the author of full-metal indigiqueer (Talonbooks 2017) which was shortlisted for the inaugural Indigenous Voices Award and the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry. He is also the author of Jonny Appleseed (Arsenal Pulp Press 2018) which was long listed for the Giller Prize, shortlisted for the Indigenous Voices Award, the Governor General's Literary Award, the Amazon Canada First Novel Award, the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award, and won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction and the Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction. Whitehead is currently working on a third manuscript titled, Making Love with the Land to be published with Knopf Canada, which explores the intersections of Indigeneity, queerness, and, most prominently, mental health through a nêhiyaw lens. Currently, he’s working as an editor for the forthcoming Love After the End: Two-Spirit Utopias and Dystopias to be released in 2019. You can find his work published widely in such venues as Prairie Fire, CV2, EVENT, Arc Poetry Magazine, The Fiddlehead, Grain, CNQ, Write, and Red Rising Magazine.

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Subject:   Two-Spirit People--Canada Two-Spirit People--North America Indigenous Art--North America Indigenous Author--Canada Peguis First Nation Jonny Appleseed Full-metal indigiqueer

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