The Aboriginal Students' Centre and USSU Pride Centre Present Two Spirits
The Aboriginal Students' Centre and USSU Pride Centre have teamed up to bring you TWO SPIRITS, a documentary film, followed by a Panel Discussion October 20th in Biology 106 at 5 p.m.
TWO SPIRITS interweaves the tragic story of a mother’s loss of her son with a revealing look at a time when the world wasn’t simply divided into male and female and many Native American cultures held places of honour for people of integrated genders.
Fred Martinez was nádleehí, a male-bodied person with a feminine nature, a special gift according to his ancient Navajo culture. But the place where two discriminations meet is a dangerous place to live, and Fred became one of the youngest hate-crime victims in modern history when he was brutally murdered at sixteen. Between tradition and controversy, sex and spirit, and freedom and fear, lives the truth—the bravest choice you can make is to be yourself.
Following the film, a mixture of community voices will bring the movie home to Saskatchewan and Saskatoon.
