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Ma-Nee Chacaby: 'I'm Old, But So What?' Says The Two-Spirit Elder

Ma-Nee Chacaby: 'I'm Old, But So What?' Says The Two-Spirit Elder

Update: 2024-03-19
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Ma-Nee Chacaby talks about learning that she was Two-Spirit as a kid, her rural upbringing, and the challenges of being an out indigenous lesbian in Thunder Bay, Canada in the 1980s. Ma-Nee is the author of A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder. (Note: This episode discusses domestic violence.)


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This is a part of our special series, The LGBTQ+ Elders Project. Click here to listen to our interview with the 92-year-old pioneer photographer Duane Michals. 


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Ma-Nee Chacaby: 'I'm Old, But So What?' Says The Two-Spirit Elder

Ma-Nee Chacaby: 'I'm Old, But So What?' Says The Two-Spirit Elder

Jeffrey Masters

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