RT @womensart1: Artist Helga Stentzel's fun clothesline creatures #WomensArt

We will miss your powerful voice Shuhada'. Your words will live on through your art. #Healing #Justice

@DrMakokis Check out this interview with Charlotte Nolin -

@DrMakokis “Your sole responsibility while you’re here on earth is to leave footprints behind that others will follow. And that’s a big responsibility.”.— Charlotte Nolin. #TwoSpirit #PrideMonth .

@DrMakokis Check out this short doc about @DrMakokis’ work with Two Spirit and trans folks in northern rural Canada - #TwoSpirit #PrideMonth.

.@DrMakokis is a Nehiyô (Plains Cree) Family Physician from the Saddle Lake Cree Nation in northeastern Alberta and the recent winner of of “The Amazing Race Canada” with his husband Anthony Johnson as “Team Ahkameyimok”. - from

“With the imposition of colonization, Christianity, residential schools and ‘the Sixties Scoop,’ a lot of those [Indigenous] teachings of gender diversity have been lost. ” - Dr. James Makokis.#TwoSpirit #PrideMonth

Ma-Nee lives in Thunder Bay, one of the most dangerous places in Canada for Indigenous people. Here, she mentors many individuals and groups, including Wiindo Debwe Mosewin and Not One More Death, who work to make safety for all people in Thunder Bay. from

Ma-Nee is well known for her memoir, A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder, an important account of her life. Ma-Nee is also a mentor, support, and advocate for Two Spirit communities across the country. - from

Ma-Nee Chacaby is an Ojibwe–Cree writer, artist and activist from Canada. You may have met her at a rally in Thunder Bay or Toronto, seen her on the evening news or on the dance floor at Glad Day, or maybe she taught you how to make a drum. - from

‘Two Spirit People were regarded very highly before. They were accepted as special people with gifts.’ - Ma-Nee Chacaby. #PrideMonth #TwoSpirit

Connie Merasty is a Swampy Cree and Two-Spirit person from the Opaskwayak Cree Nation in Manitoba. She has worked with the Opaskwayak Educational Authority, the Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network, and Two Spirited People of Manitoba.

🧵 June is PRIDE MONTH! .We’ve got a collection of quotes from Two Spirit folks. "You belong in this world. " - Connie Merasty. #TwoSpirit #PrideMonth .

.@LaverneCox is the first openly transgender person to appear on the covers of TIME Magazine, British Vogue, Cosmopolitan Magazine, and Essence Magazine, among others. - from

"We are born as who we are. Gender is something that is imposed on us." - @Lavernecox . #PrideMonth2023 .

Check out this conversation with Kai Cheng Thom @razorfemme: "Choosing Love at the End of the World: Social Collapse, Conflict Resolution, and Queer Resilience" .

@adriennemaree “It is dangerous to be a storyteller, it has always been dangerous to be a storyteller. We must be brave and we must be strong”- Kai Cheng Thom @razorfemme . #PrideMonth

“I understood a lot of things differently as I came out to myself. I stepped closer to understanding feminism, and black power, and the pride of working class people in unions. ”- @adriennemaree . From adrienne's 'My Big Gay Blog Post' -

@alokvmenon @ivancoyote Check out third generation Yukoner, @ivancoyote's keynote: "Like so many queer, trans and non-binary people, I had to leave my home when I was young. I had to travel to a bigger, more anonymous and divers place in order to become myself.".

@alokvmenon ‘Bullies are almost always outnumbered by the bullied. We just need to organize.’ - @ivancoyote . #PrideMonth