This Pride Month, I want to share this freedom to know yourself. Two-Spirit folks are STILL here even after boarding schools tried to erase this part of us. We might never have the same understandings that we did pre-colonial contact, but I am still here and still able to claim my identity because I am surrounded by a supportive community and am free to be who I am from the inside out.

This article was originally supposed to be about intersectionality, and how the MMIR crisis and the fight for reproductive liberation are the same for indigenous people. As a genderfluid, bisexual, Indigenous, Laotian American second generation immigrant, I know all too well how systemic issues are not limited to one group of people.

Twenty-Twenty-Three saw the introduction of a record number of anti-trans legislation introduced across the country.