And So, Don't come on here.

Don't come on here. All right. Hello, good afternoon. Good morning. Whatever time of day it is for you. This is Lou Cornum from the Red Nation, calling in from Lenape

Hoping, also known as NYC, New York City.

Today I am talking with Caymanosh Pyle

about two spirit histories generally and also maybe envisioning some two spirit

futures. Kai do you want to introduce yourself for us?

Sure so my name is Kai Minosprayo. I use they then pronounce. I'm calling in from Green Bay, Wisconsin,

Menominee, Ho Chunk, and Oneida Land, which is my hometown.

Normally I am based out of Minneapolis, Minnesota, De Otau Tuan, but I'm back here where I grew up. Yeah, I'm a writer in Ojibwe English and

Machif and a grad student at the University of Minnesota and a

grad student at the University of Minnesota and a language revitalization activist.

Sweet, yes, Kai's also a long time sort of friend, correspondent of mine on what we might call right like

a queer Indian Twitter. So I'm excited to kind of pick up some of the discussions

we've had really over the years I guess and shared on the internet and also just find out more about your current research which sounds really exciting and you know thinking of is really

is a much more festive physical presence of through June and what is still Pride month

but usually is a much more festive physical presence of pride and reflecting, you know, since every year, but especially since last year, which was the 50th anniversary of Stonewall on the kind of obscured hidden forgotten histories that really inform gay liberation movements and their connection to

anti-colonial movements, anti-capitalist movements, right?

Thinking of the kind of radical potential and history,

even if sometimes forgotten or foreclosed,

of queer histories, and in particular,

two- spirit histories.

You know, I've kind of noticed,

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