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WSET | Wine & Spirit Education Trust | |
WSET | Wine & Spirit Education Trust | |
S | Spirit | |
HS | Holy Spirit | |
SOW | Spirit Of the Wolf | |
GRITS | Grammatical Revolution In The Spirit | |
GRITS | Grammatical Revolution In The Spirit | |
NUTS | Never Underestimate The Spirit | |
SE | Spirit Energy | |
ASA | American Spirit Arms | |
TS | Two Spirit | |
MS | Mighty Spirit | |
MBS | Mind, Body, and Spirit | |
MBS | Mind, Body, And Spirit | |
WS | Warrior Spirit | |
IMS | Industrial Methylated Spirit | |
SP | Spirit Points | |
SL | Spirit Lady | |
BMS | Body Mind Spirit | |
SAY | Spirit Of Aboriginal Youth | |
ESG | Elvish Spirit Guide | |
PSG | Pagan Spirit Gathering | |
SOS | Spirit Of Sharing | |
SR | Spirit Regeneration | |
SOTA | Spirit Of The Artist |
What does Two-Spirit mean?
- Two-spirit
- Two-spirit (also two spirit, 2S or, occasionally, twospirited) is a modern, pan-Indian, umbrella term used by some Indigenous North Americans to describe Native people in their communities who fulfill a traditional third-gender (or other gender-variant) ceremonial and social role in their cultures.The term Two Spirit (original form chosen) was created in 1990 at the Indigenous lesbian and gay international gathering in Winnipeg, and "specifically chosen to distinguish and distance Native American/First Nations people from non-Native peoples". The primary purpose of coining a new term was to encourage the replacement of the outdated and considered offensive, anthropological term, berdache. This new term has not been universally accepted, having been criticized as a term of erasure by traditional communities who already have their own terms for the people being grouped under this new term, and by those who reject what they call the "Western" binary implications, such as implying that Natives believe these individuals are "both male and female". However, it has generally received more acceptance and use than the anthropological term it replaced."Two Spirit" was not intended to be interchangeable with "LGBT Native American" or "Gay Indian"; rather, it was created in English (and then translated into Ojibwe), to serve as a pan-Indian unifier: to be used for general audiences instead of the traditional terms in Indigenous languages for what are diverse, culturally-specific ceremonial and social roles, that can vary widely (if and when they exist at all). Opinions vary as to whether or not this objective has succeeded. The decision to adopt this new, pan-Indian term was also made to distance themselves from non-Native gays and lesbians, as the term and identity of two-spirit "does not make sense" unless it is contextualized within a Native American or First Nations framework and traditional cultural understanding. However, the gender-nonconforming, LGBT, or third and fourth gender, ceremonial roles traditionally embodied by Native American people and Indigenous peoples in Canada, intended to be under the modern umbrella of two-spirit, can vary widely, even among the Indigenous people who accept the English-language term. No one Native American/First Nations' culture's gender or sexuality categories apply to all, or even a majority of, these cultures.
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