Two-Spirit Identity
This modern umbrella term for gender-diverse Indigenous people was adopted?
What is Two-Spirit?
Traditional Hawaiian culture recognized this many genders.
What is three (kāne, wahine, māhū)?
The third gender appears in ancient Hindu texts such as these two epics.
What are the Ramayana and the Mahabharata?
Colonizers imposed this kind of gender perspective on Indigenous cultures.
What is the Western gender binary?
What is Empathy?
What is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
The Navajo term Nádleehí translates to this.
What is “one who is transformed”?
Māhū were primarily respected for being keepers of these cultural practices.
What are hula, chant, and oral traditions?
Hijras often join the community through a relationship with a guru known as this.
What is a chela (disciple)?
The group criminalized in the 1871 Criminal Tribes Act.
Who are the hijras?
My mom is from which Mexican state.
What is Chihuahua?
Before colonization, Two-Spirit people were often healers and visionaries due to this “dual” ability.
What is “double vision” (seeing through masculine and feminine lenses)?
This mixed-gender deity from Hawaiian mythology is associated with hula.
Who is Laka?
Hijras traditionally give blessings at these two major Hindu life events.
What are births and weddings?
Christian missionaries caused this shift in Hawaiian society.
What is the stigmatization and criminalization of māhū?
I emphasizes this value when learning about cultures different from her own.
What is empathy?
The Ojibwe term for Two-Spirit people
What is Niizh Manidoowag?
This arrival in the 1820s created stigma and criminalization of māhū individuals.
What are Christian missionaries?
In 1871, this colonial power declared hijras criminals.
Who are the British?
The Two-Spirit role changed dramatically after contact with this group.
Who are European settlers?
My parents were influenced by strict gender roles tied to this.
What is religion or patriarchal tradition?
The Diné (Navajo) recognized this number of gender categories, including one that changes over time.
What is five?
By 1850, this law targeted māhū and criminalized their existence.
What is the outlawing of sodomy?
By 2014, these three South Asian countries formally recognized the third gender.
What are India, Nepal, and Bangladesh?
Colonization often erased Indigenous gender systems through this type of enforcement.
What is religious law or imposed morality?
It is important to recognize what when looking our own personal perspectives, bias, and preconceived notions about other cultures, peoples, and genders?
What is privilage?