Two Spirit Conference organizer Myk Mendez of the Shoshone-Bannock tribes in Idaho put it bluntly to attendees at a gathering of tribal citizens earlier this summer in Nevada: “I want people to not ...

Gender-diverse peoples have always existed. Cultures all over the world recognize gender diversity, including the Isangoma of Zulu Africa; Mahu peoples of Indigenous Hawaii; Kathooey, Bissu and Hijras ...

On April 1, the Multicultural Student Center in the Memorial Union held an educational event as part of the Pride Week celebrations at the University of Maine. Two-Spirit 101 was hosted by the Office ...

We stand on the shoulders of those who came before us, and now a new oral history is on the way to inspire and encourage trans and LGBTQ+ youth. Below, in an exclusive excerpt shared with PEOPLE, a ...

When Europeans colonized North America centuries ago, they imposed on Indigenous peoples their language, clothing, food, economy, education and religion. Through the same process of forced ...

Caro De Robertis and Vivian Marie Varela Lugo, one of the BIPOC queer elders interviewed in So Many Stars: An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color | Caro De ...

Two Spirit Conference attendees carry the Western Shoshone Nation flag during an awareness walk. The slanted stripes at the top represent males, the diamonds at the bottom represent females, and the ...

Arnold Dahl-Wooley, who grew up in northern Minnesota’s small towns and is a member of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, realized as early as kindergarten that he wasn’t crushing on girls like other boys ...

Dancers gathered at Rushmore Hall in The Monument for the third annual He Sapa Nagi Nunpa Wacipi, or, Black Hills Two-Spirit Powwow, amid a busy day in Rapid City and across the country. "No Kings" ...

Is the "North American berdache" merely a phantom in the imagination of Western social scientists? / Sue-Ellen Jacobs -- The Northern Athapaskan "berdache" reconsidered : on reading more than there is ...

So Many Stars: An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color by Caro De Robertis comes out May 13 from Algonquin Books In an exclusive excerpt shared with PEOPLE, a ...