#twospirit

🧡Gay/Lesbian Indigenous people

🧡Multi-sexual Indigenous people

🧡Aro/Ace Indigenous people

🧡Trans/Nonbinary Indigenous people

🧡Two-spirit Indigenous people

🧡Fat Indigenous people

🧡Mixed race Indigenous people

🧡Disabled Indigenous people

🧡Mentally ill Indigenous people

🧡Neurodivergent Indigenous people

🧡Chronically ill Indigenous people

🧡Homeless Indigenous people

🧡Indigenous veterans

🧡Indigenous teachers

🧡Indigenous healthcare workers

🧡Indigenous food/grocery workers

🧡Indigenous children

🧡Indigenous elders

🧡Indigenous parents

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2024

Throughout all of history, gender has existed far beyond the binary. Third gender, two-spirit, and other gender non-conforming people have encapsulated the spirit of ‘nonbinary’ for millennia before the term existed!

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*REPOST* huzzah! I've now edited the original to be more inclusive! Fair warning ... I might delete the older post because this version has better representation.🌈✌🌈

Please be respectful. I do not respond to aggressive or disrespectful comments.

biological essentialism, cis-normativity, and the pathological idea of ‘transgenderism’ are racist, they’re concepts made up by colonizers that are violently enforced by christianity and white supremacy. when we say “gender is a social construct” we mean “the gender binary and the idea of transness, as it is defined by western standards, are ideas constructed by a white christian society.” i am ‘trans’ and ‘queer’ only because i am considered trans and queer by white christian standards. in my own culture, i would not have to ‘transition’ because my gender would simply be accepted.

colonizers force upon us their concepts of gender, biological sex, and sexuality while they continue to erase ours. you cannot separate the extermination of our culturally-specific sexual orientations or genders from the violent genocidal destruction of our cultures. the words that once existed for our concepts of gender and attraction were erased when our languages were banned and we were punished, beaten, and tortured for teaching them.

INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S ICONS.