*TRIGGER WARNING: HOMOPHOBIA/ANTI2SPIRIT VIOLENCE* If you've followed any of decolonizemyself social media accounts then you would know That I am gay/2spirit. I'm not exactly sure what people expected when I wrote "it only gets gayer from here." Original post: https://www.instagram.com/p/CrjI93HJ26V/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
But the entire post sure set some people off. Some even still follow. They must be scared of the impending gay to come. Anyway, support 2Spirit & LGBTQIA folks! Such as The Trevor Project:
IT'S NOT THAT HARD TO RESEARCH FOR ONESELF:
Ma-Nee Chacaby (born July 22, 1950) is an Ojibwa-Cree-Cree writer and activist from Canada.[1] She is most noted for her memoir, A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder, which was co-authored by Mary Louisa Plummer and published by the University of Manitoba Press in 2016.[2] The biography was awarded the U.S. Oral History Association's 2017 Book Award,[3] as well as the Ontario Historical Society's 2018 Alison Prentice Award for Best Book on Women's History in Ontario.[4] In addition, A Two-Spirit Journey was a shortlisted Lambda Literary Award finalist for Lesbian Memoir/Biography at the 29th Lambda Literary Awards in 2017,[5] and was shortlisted for the Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher at the 2017 Manitoba Book Awards.[6]
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