"“I saw a devilish thing,” Spanish colonialist Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca wrote in the sixteenth century: “Sinful, heinous, perverted, nefarious, abominable, unnatural, disgusting, lewd"—the language used by the colonizers to describe the acceptance of sex/gender diversity, and of same-sex love most accurately described the viewer, not the viewed. And these sensational reports about Two-Spirit people were used to further "justify" genocide, the theft of Native land and resources, and destruction of their cultures and religions."
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Chapter 3: "The Give Away", p. 22
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Leslie Feinberg
(September 1, 1949 – November 15, 2014) was an American , , communist, and author. Feinberg authored ' in 1993. Her writing, notably Stone Butch Blues and her pioneering non-fiction book ' (1996), laid the groundwork for much of the terminology and awareness around and was instrumental in bringing these issues to a more mainstream audience.
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