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Review: Two Spirits

Started by Shana A, September 07, 2010, 08:16:56 AM

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September 07, 2010, 08:16:56 AM
 Review: Two Spirits
Posted by Edie Adelstein on Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 12:31 PM

http://www.csindy.com/IndyBlog/archives/2010/09/06/review-two-spirits

Last Friday, a friend and I attended a free screening of the documentary Two Spirits at the local office of the Gay & Lesbian Fund for Colorado. This deeply affecting documentary, now a few years old, follows the story of Fred Martinez, a Navajo teen who lived near Cortez, Colo. Fred, who also went by F.C., was an openly transgendered individual who presented as female, and sometimes male.

Fred's family was welcoming and accepting: "They felt pride in his being gifted with a deep understanding of the duality of the human experience, believing that, as a nadleehi, he would live a rich and expressive life." A nadleehi person, best translated as "one who is transformed," comfortably embodies both the feminine and the masculine, and were thought by the Navajo to be gifted and extraordinary.
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
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