Category: Gender

Two-Spirit Resources: Kumu Hina, Mahu / Hawaiian

1/30/2016

I found this video clip about Kumu Hina in the New York Times' Transgender Today series. Here's the link:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/storywall/transgender-today/stories/kumu-hina

Her story is the subject of the PBS/Independent Lens documentary Kumu Hina, http://kumuhina.com

Here's the YouTube channel for more videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/KumuHina

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Two-Spirit Resources: Houston R. Cypress

12/30/2015

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Here are some articles that came out in the past year which features the voices of my friends and I from the Southeastern Two Spirit Peoples group, and our friend from the Northeast Two-Spirit Society.

Miami New Times, by Deirdre Funcheon, November 18, 2014.
This was a profile on my work with the Love The Everglades Movement, and features information on my participation in Two-Spirit communities.
http://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/a-gay-or-two-spirit-miccosukee-man-fights-for-the-everglades-6553043

South Florida Gay News, by Nicole Wiesenthal, September 24, 2015
Here the writer featured the voices of David Webb and Will Davis of the Southeast Two-Spirit Peoples, and Sade Heart Of The Hawk of the Northeast Two-Spirit Society.
http://southfloridagaynews.com/Community/the-rise-of-the-two-spirits.html

Earth Island Journal, by Jim Harper, October 28, 2015
This interview is not specifically focused on Two-Spirit matters, but I include it here to demonstrate that as Two-Spirit people, we are concerned with a holistic relationship with our communities, our environments, and our responsibilities as residents of the Universe.
http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/elist/eListRead/in_conversation_houston_r._cypress_yahaletke/

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Two-Spirit Resources: Video & Article

12/24/2014

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Reporter KELLY MALONE published an article on 8th November 2014 about Two-Spirit Traditions in different First Nations communities.

The article is fairly in-depth and is worth the time to read it.

Link: http://ckom.com/story/video-journey-indigenous-gender-identity/447504

Quote from an interview in the article:
"We need to get our two-spirit people to get back into our circle and to love themselves. Also to have people within our culture realize that this cannot stand, we cannot keep pushing people out, we are losing them by the day. The amount of suicides attempts and completed (suicides) is so high in the two-spirit community that we are pretty much dropping like flies."

Another quote from the article:
After high school, McAdam attended classes at the First Nations University of Canada campus in Prince Albert where he started learning about the impacts of colonization and the history of two-spirit people for the first time.

"I've started also getting into my culture and attending ceremonies and practicing it more. It’s really helped me as a young gay man to feel more comfortable and free in myself. I'm not ashamed anymore I'm more proud," he said.

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Two-Spirit Resources: Kumu Hina, Mahu / Hawaiian

Two-Spirit Resources: Houston R. Cypress

Two-Spirit Resources: Video & Article

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