(Un)settled: Exploring Gender in History

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Speaking of They: Colonized Two-Spirit Bodies

“reclamation!”

two-spirit hallucinations gender and sexual diversity across reservations consent and invitation self-love, respect and transformations dreams of colonial healing bringing back a flood of feelings cleansing, replenishing memories of believing refreshing, reviving ways of seeing decolonial sex, love and rock & roll light up that sage bowl let’s lose control shapeshift our souls a dream for next generations a vision of liberation ancestors holler in exclamation two-spirit reclamation! with lands, bodies, spirits, minds aligned the struggles will be easier to survive no one left behind rise up, thrive (Bitty, 2017).1

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