But I also think of Indigiqueer as the forward moving momentum for two-spiritness,’ he said. One to pay homage to where I come from, from Winnipeg, being kind of the birthplace of two-spirit in 1990. ‘I go by both two-spirit and Indigiqueer. The word Indigiqueer is his way of making a space, land, and ceremony for that identity. Two-spirit, in the simplest sense, is an Indigenous person who is a member of the LGBTQ community.īut Whitehead said his sexual identity is a ‘braiding of two worlds’-his queerness and his culture. As part of the introduction to a recent interview with Whitehead at CBC Radio, the host writes: “When you look for a clear definition of the term ‘two-spirit’ you’ll quickly find that there isn’t one”: You might be wondering what, exactly, that means. Joshua Whitehead is an Oji-Cree Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer from Peguis First Nation (Treaty 1 territory).
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