Two Spirits: Sexuality, Gender and the Murder of Fred Martinez

A wonderful video about survival and place from L. Frank.   "Everybody is Indigenous to somewhere."

Join us on Wednesday 9 November 2011 at the MCC for a special screening of Two Spirits:  Sexuality, Gender and the Murder of Fred Martinez.

We will begin with a welcome and a meal at 5, the film and Q & A will follow.

Two Spirits: Sexuality, Gender and the Murder of Fred Martinez

L. Frank Manriquez is a Tongva-Acjachemen artist, writer, tribal scholar, cartoonist, and indigenous language activist.  She was a participant in the filming of Two Spirits and will join us at the screening on Nov. 9.

Two Spirits: Sexuality, Gender and the Murder of Fred Martinez

Two Spirits: Sexuality, Gender and the Murder of Fred Martinez
Screening and Q&A with
*L. Frank Manriquez (Tongva/Acjachemen), Film Participant
*Dr. Reid Gómez (Diné), Native American Student Development

Wednesday, November 9th, 2011
5-7pm
Multicultural Community Center (MCC) - 2nd Floor of MLK, UC Berkeley
Free food!
Fred Martinez was nádleehí, a male-bodied person with a feminine 
nature, 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 16. 

Two Spirits mourns the young Fred Martinez and the threatened 
disappearance of the two-spirit tradition, but it also brims with hope 
and the belief that we all are enriched by multi-gendered people, and 
that all of us — regardless of ethnicity, gender, sexuality, or cultural
heritage — benefit from being free to be our truest selves. 

For more information on the film: 

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/two-spirits/
Students, staff, faculty and community members welcome!

Questions? Contact Marisa at mboyce@berkeley.edu

This is a drug and alcohol free event.

Cosponsored by Native American Student Development, the Multicultural
Community Center, Native American Recruitment and Retention Center,
Department of Gender & Women's Studies, and the Gender Equity Resource
Center.

For disability-related accommodations see http://geneq.berkeley.edu