Our university's indigenous student center is planning a workshop series on two-spirit identity and history, but the planning committee includes both traditional knowledge keepers and academic researchers and we're struggling with questions about who should lead what parts and how to present information respectfully. The semester starts in six weeks and we're running out of time to resolve these tensions.
More people experience this than they realize.
A group is trying to create educational programming while navigating legitimate concerns about knowledge sovereignty and academic appropriation.
“Where Are You with Two-spirit and indigenous gender traditions?”
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