Being Two-Spirit and trans in Canada: How colonization shaped the way we view gender diversity – Global News
June 8, 2022
For Phantasma Levesque, learning about their Two-Spiritedness hasn’t been easy. As a Two-Spirit, Jamaican and Néhinaw person, Levesque did not know Two-Spirit people existed until they started to reconnect with their Indigenous roots.
“It’s only been very recently for me that I’ve started to find a Two-Spirit community, and as a result only recently have I felt identifying in that way,” Levesque said.
“One of the reasons it was so difficult was because I didn’t know that folks like me exist… Even now I’m still learning about what it means to be Two-Spirit because the knowledge has been lost through colonialism.”
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