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Rites of Passage: The Strawberry Ceremony

by Jillian Kerr

"Traditionally, the strawberry ceremony is for girls after their first menstrual cycle. However, today it is offered to folks who identify as #TwoSpirit and to those who didn’t have the opportunity to participate as young people, like me. I didn’t have the chance to go through this ceremony decades ago as an adolescent, and I am eagerly looking forward to my own strawberry ceremony experience this year. In anticipation, I researched the strawberry ceremony and talked to those who had already experienced it to learn more."

Read more:
wabanakireach.org/rites_of_pas

Wabanaki REACHRites of Passage: The Strawberry CeremonyTruth - Healing - Change

Premiering August 2025:

What does TWO-SPIRIT mean to you?
-A short series of interviews with Louisiana/Gulf South connected Two-Spirit community members-

Produced by Bvlbancha Public Access (bvlbanchapublicaccess.com) and the Black, Indigenous, & Trans of Color Histories Lab (bitpochistories.carrd.co)

bvlbanchapublicaccess.com/proj

#IndigenousGulf #Indigenous #TwoSpirit #2slgbtq #Louisiana #Bulbancha #NOLA #GulfSouth #IndigenousCreatives #Interviews #AlternativeMedia @noladon

It's funny when people try and insult my #masculinity I identify as #twospirit since 1) I have Kleinfelters and 2) I'm gay I don't think much about my #gender at all. I'm neither man, nor woman, nor non-binary. I walk around as a dude, because I enjoy that. But honestly....I could care less. Like honestly...I just have better things to do. Like play with elfeed on #emacs. #trans #intersex

I've done this. And yeah, it's not for the faint of heart!

via @thenarwhal

Finding myself in blood, flesh, veins and bug bites — life at a hide camp for #TwoSpirit #IndigenousYouth

By Kierstin Williams

Kierstin reported and photographed this story at Niizh Manidook Hide Camp over six days in May 2024

June 27, 2025

"It’s my first time tanning my own deer hide. At #NiizhManidook Hide Camp, I’ve learned to slow down, listen and be in relation while immersed in brains and skin..."

thenarwhal.ca/two-spirit-indig

The Narwhal · Life at a hide camp for Two-Spirit Indigenous youth | The NarwhalBrain hide tanning isn’t for the faint of heart. But at Niizh Manidook Hide Camp, I’ve learned to slow down, listen and be in relation
Replied to Tzip

@Tzipporah I am #Indigenous & identify as #TwoSpirit

Your red and black one calls my soul. The statement of being proud of all the pieces of me makes me want to support you. If I get anyone to support me, I will buy this red and black pair. I hope just hope something comes my way, so I can send a little Hope your way. We get through with each other

#MutualAidRequest #IndigenousMutualAid
V: Syreeta-Nolan
PP: nolansyreeta

How much are my red and black lovelies?

Got to see the Susan #Wick exhibit, a local Denver artist, and the most extraordinary traveling exhibit Kent Monkman’s History is Painted by the Victors at the #DenverArtMuseum If you have a chance to see it near you, make the effort! He’s from the #Cree tribe, and his paintings disrupt the narrative of what North Americans are taught about the conquest of the indigenous, and the repression of #TwoSpirit culture. And it is unbelievably beautiful. Starring Miss Chief in many of the narratives. #queer #trans #art #OldMasters (I apologize for lack of alt text, when I can get the brace off or to a real keyboard I will add descriptions of the four Kent Mockman pieces below.)

Poverty has no place in Pride! Take part in the first ever national survey of 2SLGBTQ+ Social & Economic Wellbeing!
We'd love and appreciate your time to voice how money works or doesn't work for you as a 2SLGBTQ+ Canadian by completing the survey here: smuniversity.qualtrics.com/...
More about the project here: yorku.ca/laps/research/lgbtq2s
#poverty #Canada #LGBTQ #TwoSpirit #wellbeing #survey #Pride

CBC just posted an introduction to 101 Canadian LGBTQ2S+ artists, hell yeah

cbc.ca/artsprojects/superqueer

One of my favourite artists on the list is Vivek Shraya! She has been making music, films, and literature for 15 years at this point and is incredibly prolific. Her film "What I Love About Being Queer" helped me a lot back when I was a baby gay! Her works about being a trans woman of colour are incisive and layered and just...no other way to describe it except that she was living in 2050 with her works even 10 years ago haha. A Canadian cultural treasure.

(also she released a zine whose subject is just "every mall in Edmonton." iconic)

cbc.ca/artsprojects/superqueer

CBCCBC Arts presents Super Queeroes: Celebrating Canada's LGBTQ pioneersThis is a celebration of 101 great queer artists who have helped shape Canada’s rich 2SLGBTQ+ history.