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AtLast · 08-15-2010, 02:40 AM

Gender fluid for me became clear by learning more about Native American Two-Spirit foundations. This brought me personally to a peaceful place about my female-masculinity- my butchness.

We all get there in whatever way we fits for us individually. A spiritual journey away from Christianity was mine. It also brought me to allowing myself some balance with all of the things I am where butch is one part. When I have had the negative (sometimes, plain cruel and bigoted) things happen to me that we go through as masculine women or butches, male & female identified and all of our transgendered, transsexual or intergendered formations, these concepts have given me a much less stressful emotional state of being. Every one of us does this differently, which makes it all the richer.

One book (there are many) that I got a lot from is-

Two-spirit people : Native American gender identity, sexuality, and spirituality

Sue-Ellen Jacobs; Wesley Thomas & Sabine Lang (snippet from an ad about the book).

This landmark book combines the voices of Native Americans and non-Indians, anthropologists and others, in an exploration of gender and sexuality issues as they relate to lesbian, gay, trans-gendered, and other "marked" Native Americans. Focusing on the concept of two-spirit people - individuals not necessarily gay or lesbian, transvestite or bisexual, but whose behaviors or beliefs may sometimes be interpreted by others as uncharacteristic of their sex - this book is the first to provide an intimate look at how many two-spirit people feel about themselves, how other Native Americans treat them, and how anthropologists and other scholars interpret them and their cultures.

08-15-2010, 02:40 AM	#21
AtLast Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Woman Preferred Pronoun?: HER - SHE Relationship Status: Relating Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: CA & AZ I'm a Snowbird Posts: 5,408 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 11,826 Thanked 10,830 Times in 3,200 Posts Rep Power: 21474856	Gender fluid for me became clear by learning more about Native American Two-Spirit foundations. This brought me personally to a peaceful place about my female-masculinity- my butchness. We all get there in whatever way we fits for us individually. A spiritual journey away from Christianity was mine. It also brought me to allowing myself some balance with all of the things I am where butch is one part. When I have had the negative (sometimes, plain cruel and bigoted) things happen to me that we go through as masculine women or butches, male & female identified and all of our transgendered, transsexual or intergendered formations, these concepts have given me a much less stressful emotional state of being. Every one of us does this differently, which makes it all the richer. One book (there are many) that I got a lot from is- Two-spirit people : Native American gender identity, sexuality, and spirituality Sue-Ellen Jacobs; Wesley Thomas & Sabine Lang (snippet from an ad about the book). This landmark book combines the voices of Native Americans and non-Indians, anthropologists and others, in an exploration of gender and sexuality issues as they relate to lesbian, gay, trans-gendered, and other "marked" Native Americans. Focusing on the concept of two-spirit people - individuals not necessarily gay or lesbian, transvestite or bisexual, but whose behaviors or beliefs may sometimes be interpreted by others as uncharacteristic of their sex - this book is the first to provide an intimate look at how many two-spirit people feel about themselves, how other Native Americans treat them, and how anthropologists and other scholars interpret them and their cultures.