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Two Spirits

Name: Two Spirits
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2009-06-21
Duration: 1 h 5 min
Rating: 7.7

2009
R
1h 5m

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7.7/10

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TWO SPIRITS interweaves the tragic story of a motherÂ’s loss of her son with a revealing look at the largely unknown history of a time when the world wasnÂ’t simply divided into male and female and many Native American cultures held places of honor for people of integrated genders.

Fred Martinez was nÃ¡dleehÃ, a male-bodied person with a feminine essence, a special gift according to his ancient Navajo culture. He was one of the youngest hate-crime victims in modern history when he was brutally murdered at sixteen by a young man who bragged to friends that he had Â“bug-smashed a fag.Â” TWO SPIRITS explores the life and death of a boy who was also a girl and the essentially spiritual nature of gender and sexuality. The film makes the case that in the twenty-first century we need to return to traditional values.

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Filmmaker Lydia Nibley explores the cultural context behind a tragic and senseless murder. Fred Martinez was a Navajo youth slain at the age of 16 by a man who bragged to his friends that he... Read allFilmmaker Lydia Nibley explores the cultural context behind a tragic and senseless murder. Fred Martinez was a Navajo youth slain at the age of 16 by a man who bragged to his friends that he 'bug-smashed a fag'. But Fred was part of an honored Navajo tradition - the 'nadleeh', or... Read allFilmmaker Lydia Nibley explores the cultural context behind a tragic and senseless murder. Fred Martinez was a Navajo youth slain at the age of 16 by a man who bragged to his friends that he 'bug-smashed a fag'. But Fred was part of an honored Navajo tradition - the 'nadleeh', or 'two-spirit', who possesses a balance of masculine and feminine traits. Through telling F... Read all