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Two-Spirit is a term created by Indigenous peoples of North America in 1990 to bring together the diverse gender identities and sexualities that exist within their cultures.
It is not a single gender. Each nation has its own traditions, names, and ways of understanding these experiences.
For many communities, Two-Spirit people held important social, cultural, and spiritual roles before European colonization.
The term should not be used by non-Indigenous people, as it is specifically connected to the cultures and experiences of the Indigenous peoples of North America.
Irawhiti (Māori)
Irawhiti is a Māori-language term used by some people to describe transgender or gender-diverse experiences.
The term is part of the contemporary revitalization of Māori language and culture, allowing Indigenous people to describe their identities through their own cultural frameworks.
Although it may be translated as "transgender" in some contexts, Irawhiti carries meanings connected to Māori cultural realities and should not be understood simply as a copy of Western gender categories. ( Flag design by Irauí on Tumblr. ) @irawhiti
takatāpui (Māori)
Takatāpui is a Māori term used by Indigenous LGBTQIA+ people in New Zealand.
Historically, the word referred to an intimate relationship between people of the same sex.
Today, many Māori people use the term to express both their Indigenous identity and their gender or sexual diversity.
More than a specific sexual orientation or gender identity, Takatāpui connects a person to their culture, ancestry, and community.
The term is part of the Māori cultural revitalization movement and demonstrates that gender and sexual diversity can be understood through Indigenous perspectives, not only through Western categories. ( Flag design by Irauí on Tumblr. ) @irawhiti
Māhū (Kanaka Maōli)
Māhū is a traditional Hawaiian cultural identity associated with people who embody both masculine and feminine qualities.
Historically, māhū people held important roles as educators, keepers of knowledge, healers, and transmitters of cultural traditions.
The arrival of colonization and Christian missions attempted to erase these identities, but many Native Hawaiians continue to preserve and revitalize the māhū identity today.
Māhū is not simply the Hawaiian equivalent of "transgender" or "nonbinary." It is a distinct cultural identity deeply connected to Hawaiian history, culture, and spirituality.
Tibira/ Tybyra
Tibira is a historical figure documented during the colonial period.
According to interpretations by Indigenous researchers and collectives, Tibira may be understood as a man who had relationships with other men, or as a person who lived with a feminine gender identity or expression, challenging the norms imposed by colonizers.
Their story is remembered as an example that gender and sexual diversity already existed among Indigenous peoples long before colonization. ( Made by me )
Çacoaimbeguira
Accounts of the Tupinambá people mention the çacoaimbeguiras.
According to interpretations by Indigenous researchers and collectives, they may be understood as women who had relationships with other women, or as people who lived with a masculine gender identity or expression outside the norms imposed by colonization.
Their existence shows that diverse ways of experiencing gender and sexuality were already part of Indigenous societies long before the imposition of European models. ( Made by me )
my wife insisted I post my stupid Jax character analysis from discord to here so I'm not going to put all that much effort into editing it
TADC Finale spoilers
lol
People can cry about it but the way Jax was handled was the best and only way a character with his kind of problem can be interpreted. As a cautionary tale that a) People who are victims can be fucked up and take out their insecurities onto others, b) That doesn't undo what they did or mean you have to forgive them, c) Even if you have noble intentions, if you're not the right person for the job, you can't force someone to open up to you. Good intentions, bad timing, poor execution.
The rise of therapy speak and people trying to take it upon themselves to "fix" people has led people to get upset WITH THE VICTIMS because they don't react in the way the person trying to reach out wants them to. Jax has trust issues, Ribbit tried to get him to open up at a stage where he wasn't ready to open up, his confession was premature and it left Jax feeling naked and exposed.
THAT HAPPENS. He relapses because as much as he likes her and wants to trust her, the trauma response that he says IN THE VERY SAME CONVERSATION where he opens up is "My mom laughed at me and then hugged me". It's right fucking there, people disarm him, laugh at him, and then try to act like it didn't happen. That fear of not knowing how people really feel about him is what's fucking with him. It got him hurt once already.
By the time he registers the pain he's inflicted onto others it's already too late and he would rather everyone hate him, because at least then he can predict and "be in control" of the way people perceive him. It's self-destructive. This is "that friend you want to help and reach out to but nothing you say works and it leaves you feeling impotent, frustrated and resentful towards them". If it makes you uncomfortable, congrats. That's mental illness.
People only seem to be patient with people w/ depression who bedrot because "AT LEAST THEY'RE NICE" which is such a fucking cowardly stance. That's only one perspective. Does it make you uncomfortable? Fuck you, this could be you
Jax lacked the language to tell people "I have issues I am not ready to talk about, and the fact that you're so insistent on finding out about them is rubbing me the wrong way" in a way that fit his facade of control.
Ribbit lacked the patience and hindsight to understand that Jax wasn't withholding information out of malice, but because it was THAT personal. The facade worked as intended, she thought nothing really bothered him. That 's the fucking point. There are stages of trust and Ribbit assumed she had cleared the stage where Jax would be comfortable with talking about his personal life.
She thought she was a 7 on the friend scale when in reality she was a 5.
Did Jax lead her on? Most definitely. There was no way for her to anticipate how bad his problems were and how deeply rooted they were. Her initial reaction wasn't to think "Oh he's repressing his emotions" because she had already assumed he was comfortable when he wasn't. This isn't a demerit for her, this is just how people are. People's organic response to situations like this is to take people's words at face value. The logical thing is "If you have a problem then you'll tell me because that's what I'd do." Do you see where I'm going with this?
For a generation that is so used to drop people like anvils at the first sight of discomfort I can see why a lot of people's initial reactions to Jax is to have a fucking panic attack. But I think people should really pay attention to the real point of his character. The idea of being so insecure about how you are perceived that you would literally sabotage yourself to push people away from getting closer to you. That you could be trying to do the right thing for someone you care about and it still ends up with them isolating, hurting themselves and you because you did it prematurely.
Also I know me saying "this is the only way you this character could be interpreted" I mean he was already ruined before Episode 1 started. He had already reached the Learned Helplessness stage of his trauma where he preferred the ways things were to Pomni slowly unraveling everyone. By the time she found out the truth, it was already too late to fix him. The hindsight she needed to be able to level with him did not come to her naturally and everyone else was already so repulsed by him he has lost the benefit of the doubt.
The tragedy lies in the fact that Pomni arrived too late. Any growth and development that could have happened did too late. Jax's attempts to distance himself from everyone else worked and none of them can bring themselves to care. Pomni was fresh to the circus and was able to sift through the bullshit a lot better.
A weaker series would've had Jax become normal again and go "Im sorry everyone" and they all forgive him.
Instead the forgiveness is ambiguous. You as the viewer don't know for sure if any of them, even with context, will ever forgive him. They can, but they don't have to.
Some people dream about the ability to have a sandbox where they are able to exercise their agency and "be their true selves". Jax was given that. And after misjudging someone that had good intentions, he isolated inward and became the worst version of himself. He chose to do that.
Here's the thing about talking about agency with someone that is very deeply emotionally scarred: it fucking sucks.
You are not your trauma, but your trauma heavily influences your choices and how you carry yourself. Not everyone has the tools to fucking psychoanalyze themselves and compartmentalize their situation like a psychopath. Being mentally compromised and how you function while in that state of mind looks different for everyone.
Living the rest of your amazing digital eternity as the monster from I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream is not a good ending for him. It's what he deserves.
I'm not hung up on the idea that Jax is some innocent little bitch you need to be more considerate of, bro is a grown ass man with maladaptive coping mechanisms. But it really feels like people are losing the forest for the trees. Jax is an instrument to the larger story about people being more honest with themselves as, well, the guy who refused to.
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my wife insisted I post my stupid Jax character analysis from discord to here so I'm not going to put all that much effort into editing it
TADC Finale spoilers
lol
People can cry about it but the way Jax was handled was the best and only way a character with his kind of problem can be interpreted. As a cautionary tale that a) People who are victims can be fucked up and take out their insecurities onto others, b) That doesn't undo what they did or mean you have to forgive them, c) Even if you have noble intentions, if you're not the right person for the job, you can't force someone to open up to you. Good intentions, bad timing, poor execution.
The rise of therapy speak and people trying to take it upon themselves to "fix" people has led people to get upset WITH THE VICTIMS because they don't react in the way the person trying to reach out wants them to. Jax has trust issues, Ribbit tried to get him to open up at a stage where he wasn't ready to open up, his confession was premature and it left Jax feeling naked and exposed.
THAT HAPPENS. He relapses because as much as he likes her and wants to trust her, the trauma response that he says IN THE VERY SAME CONVERSATION where he opens up is "My mom laughed at me and then hugged me". It's right fucking there, people disarm him, laugh at him, and then try to act like it didn't happen. That fear of not knowing how people really feel about him is what's fucking with him. It got him hurt once already.
By the time he registers the pain he's inflicted onto others it's already too late and he would rather everyone hate him, because at least then he can predict and "be in control" of the way people perceive him. It's self-destructive. This is "that friend you want to help and reach out to but nothing you say works and it leaves you feeling impotent, frustrated and resentful towards them". If it makes you uncomfortable, congrats. That's mental illness.
People only seem to be patient with people w/ depression who bedrot because "AT LEAST THEY'RE NICE" which is such a fucking cowardly stance. That's only one perspective. Does it make you uncomfortable? Fuck you, this could be you
Jax lacked the language to tell people "I have issues I am not ready to talk about, and the fact that you're so insistent on finding out about them is rubbing me the wrong way" in a way that fit his facade of control.
Ribbit lacked the patience and hindsight to understand that Jax wasn't withholding information out of malice, but because it was THAT personal. The facade worked as intended, she thought nothing really bothered him. That 's the fucking point. There are stages of trust and Ribbit assumed she had cleared the stage where Jax would be comfortable with talking about his personal life.
She thought she was a 7 on the friend scale when in reality she was a 5.
Did Jax lead her on? Most definitely. There was no way for her to anticipate how bad his problems were and how deeply rooted they were. Her initial reaction wasn't to think "Oh he's repressing his emotions" because she had already assumed he was comfortable when he wasn't. This isn't a demerit for her, this is just how people are. People's organic response to situations like this is to take people's words at face value. The logical thing is "If you have a problem then you'll tell me because that's what I'd do." Do you see where I'm going with this?
For a generation that is so used to drop people like anvils at the first sight of discomfort I can see why a lot of people's initial reactions to Jax is to have a fucking panic attack. But I think people should really pay attention to the real point of his character. The idea of being so insecure about how you are perceived that you would literally sabotage yourself to push people away from getting closer to you. That you could be trying to do the right thing for someone you care about and it still ends up with them isolating, hurting themselves and you because you did it prematurely.
Also I know me saying "this is the only way you this character could be interpreted" I mean he was already ruined before Episode 1 started. He had already reached the Learned Helplessness stage of his trauma where he preferred the ways things were to Pomni slowly unraveling everyone. By the time she found out the truth, it was already too late to fix him. The hindsight she needed to be able to level with him did not come to her naturally and everyone else was already so repulsed by him he has lost the benefit of the doubt.
The tragedy lies in the fact that Pomni arrived too late. Any growth and development that could have happened did too late. Jax's attempts to distance himself from everyone else worked and none of them can bring themselves to care. Pomni was fresh to the circus and was able to sift through the bullshit a lot better.
A weaker series would've had Jax become normal again and go "Im sorry everyone" and they all forgive him.
Instead the forgiveness is ambiguous. You as the viewer don't know for sure if any of them, even with context, will ever forgive him. They can, but they don't have to.
Some people dream about the ability to have a sandbox where they are able to exercise their agency and "be their true selves". Jax was given that. And after misjudging someone that had good intentions, he isolated inward and became the worst version of himself. He chose to do that.
Here's the thing about talking about agency with someone that is very deeply emotionally scarred: it fucking sucks.
You are not your trauma, but your trauma heavily influences your choices and how you carry yourself. Not everyone has the tools to fucking psychoanalyze themselves and compartmentalize their situation like a psychopath. Being mentally compromised and how you function while in that state of mind looks different for everyone.
Living the rest of your amazing digital eternity as the monster from I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream is not a good ending for him. It's what he deserves.
I'm not hung up on the idea that Jax is some innocent little bitch you need to be more considerate of, bro is a grown ass man with maladaptive coping mechanisms. But it really feels like people are losing the forest for the trees. Jax is an instrument to the larger story about people being more honest with themselves as, well, the guy who refused to.
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Something I think about sometimes as a transmasc is the contrast between the stereotype of how transmascs and trans men are so often viewed through the lens of “girls (or ‘girls’) who want to be boys”, and my experience growing up of feeling like a boy who wished desperately that he could be a girl. But, knowing deep down on some level that I wasn’t one and couldn’t be one, no matter how much I wanted to be. And perhaps my experience is complicated by growing up intersex, and not really going through what people think of as a complete “normal girl puberty”, so that’s something to consider when looking back on my experiences with gender.
But, I’ve seen a lot of people, transmascs and (occasionally) non transmascs alike talk about the transmasc experience of Wishing You Were A Boy and rarely seen anyone else talk about the transmasc experience of Wishing You Were A Girl, and frankly, I feel like a lot of cis allies are unaware that this is a thing for some transmascs. I’ve seen people talk about internalized transphobia broadly a bit more often, sure, but this is a slightly more distinct feeling than simply wishing I was “normal” and able to blend in, and therefore not trans, and therefore a cis girl by default. I’m not really sure how to describe it. Like, before I even knew that being trans was a concept that existed at all, before I consciously ever thought “I feel like a boy” or knew that was something I could be, I remember thinking often “I wish I could be a Real Girl” but knowing that I felt like an imposter. There was an intense yearning for Girlhood, but a knowledge that Girlhood was on a shelf just out of my reach- despite not having any idea whatsoever as to why, at the time.
Maybe this doesn’t make a lot of sense, I only slept 4 hours and my head isn’t exactly screwed on straight. But I’m sharing this anyway, hoping that someone else out there will see it and resonate and know that they aren’t alone. I also think it’s worth mentioning that I find it interesting how gender dysphoria can manifest so differently for everyone who is affected by it.
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