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Hijra!
Hijra!
In the Indian subcontinent, and more specifically in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, we meet the gender of Hijra! In ancient Hindu scriptures, they are mentioned for over 4000 years! Hijras could be transgender, eunuch, and intersex people (Dutt, 2002; Mal, 2015, 2018; Loh, 2014; Kollen, 2016, in Mal 2018). So get on board, and let's […]
Fa’afafine
Fa’afafine
“If you want something done, ask a fa’afafine.”Who is the population that is called Fa’afafine? Fa’afafine are those assigned males at birth whose gendered behaviours are, to varying degrees, feminine’(Schmidt, 2016: 287), but without considering themselves neither women nor men, living in Samoa, American Samoa, and New Zealand. In Samoan tradition, Fa’ afafine are one […]
Two-Spirit People in Turtle Island!
Two-Spirit People in Turtle Island!
Welcome to Turtle Island, as the native population calls the North American continent. There we have the honour to meet with Two-Spirit people. Two-spirit or two-spirited people are Native Americans and First Nation people (the way that Indigenous of Kanada call themselves), that they do not belong to the binary gender of women-men of colonials. […]
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Burnesha of Albania!
Burnesha of Albania!
In northern Albania, Kosovo and Montenegro, and in albanian ethnic groups in Bosnia, Dalmatian Croatia, Serbia and North Macedonia, another gender beyond the binary women-man exists. There are the Burnesha.Burnesha are persons who are assigned as female at birth, but in a later stage of their life there has been a redefinition of their gender […]