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When academic institutions balance traditional knowledge with scholarly approaches to two-spirit education

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.

Juana
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What we've seen

A group is trying to create educational programming while navigating legitimate concerns about knowledge sovereignty and academic appropriation.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Two-spirit and indigenous gender traditions?”

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