#queeresources.

I wanted to share this post (source), because of the recent rise in baeddelism and transphobia against nonbinary and/or genderqueer people. i believe that gatekeeping queerness is violence, a kind of violence that has existed for decades and only sets the queer community back.

giiwedinindizhinikaaz: Queering Indigeneity is a multi-year, multi-generational project that celebrates the vision and diversity of 2-Spirit, Native queer, gender expansive artists in the Upper Midwest. In seeking out and amplifying voices of Indigenous artists and culture bearers, the M, guided by Penny Kagigebi, hopes to influence the types of artists who are supported, seen, and centered at the museum, and to show both Indigenous and non-Indigenous visitors a more comprehensive and complex story of this region’s art and artists.

Beginning in 2023, the M’s partnership with Kagigebi has emphasized opportunities for intergenerational transfer of knowledge and artmaking, such that community is nurtured among artists, and sustaining mentorships develop. The M’s legacy of community-guided collaboration paved the way for a project like Queering Indigeneity, which responds to Kagigebi’s leadership on radical commitment to Indigenous practices that support artists.

The gender spectrum is an understanding that gender is not binary, but rather a spectrum of biological, mental and emotional traits that exist along a continuum. In contrast, the gender binary—also called gender binarism or genderism—is a belief that gender is composed of two distinct and opposite genders (women/men) in which there is not overlap. Unfortunately for those who believe in a gender binary, it is not scientifically or medically correct. Gender can’t be binary, because it is a personal identity and is socially constructed. Sex, which refers to one’s biological characteristics, also exists as a spectrum, because intersex people exist. A person’s sex can be female, male, or intersex—which can present as an infinite number of biological combinations. Today, numerous scientific fields, including biology, endocrinology, physiology, genetics, neuroscience, and reproductive science, have confirmed that both sex and gender exist as a spectrum. Read More.

MORE INFO:

Is Sex Still Binary? (2023)

Gender is on a spectrum. (2018)