This is the author of the article...I did indeed screw up by referring to "two-spirited" as a slur. Thanks for catching this and correcting the error!
--MP
11/14 |
It's strange to list "two-spirited" as a slur used by Native Americans - as it is an category that is used to cover a range of gender/sexual identities that are viewed as indigenous. Not to suggest that this error is on the part of Hooksexup staff, but I figured it's worth mentioning.
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11/13 |
As a point of information, the term "two-spirited" is NOT intended to be offensive. It is a term expressing the existence of a gender that is not exclusively male or female by common Western definitions. It was in fact produced and employed by Native Americans to positively describe a persons gender identity as opposed to defining them by their sexual orientation, which may in fact happen through innacurate or offensive terms.
--AML
11/13 |
There was also Playboy's book of Forbidden Words, edited by Robert Anton Wilson. The hardcover was released in 1972, but the link below shows the softcover released later. https://ephemera.typepad.com/ephemera/2006/09/playboys_book_o.html Yes, they're three decades dated. Still pretty cool.
--F23
11/13 |
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