Author: Draco Recalma

rainbow flag with the medicine wheel in the middle (quartered into colours: black, white, yellow, and red)
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Two spirits, one body: A short narrative of a (short) native queer

It’s true, men and women had and do have traditional roles in Indigenous cultures (if you have a problem with that, remember that the violent patriarchy was a construct of the colonizers). It is also true but not widely known, that before colonization, people who were queer and/or transgender were revered in most Indigenous cultures. There…

Young person wearing a black hat and lifejacket sits in a kayak facing the mountains and holding a paddle in front of them.
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Swimming

This blog post was graciously shared with Project Respect and written by the most fabulous Jasper Malchuk Rasmussen, who was last year’s youth employee at PR. Today I went swimming for the first time since I started have the gender feels. It was a free outdoor pool (woah!), and as I was slightly drowning my…