Two-Spirit Organizing: A Brief History and the Current Movement within the Indigenous Community

J Miko Thomas

Stevenson 101
9:30 AM

J Miko Thomas is a Chickasaw writer, musician, activist and artist. As drag persona Landa Lakes, in 2005, she founded two-spirit drag performance groups in San Francisco. Landa uses art to combine contemporary ideas with Native history and traditional stories to convey the shared experiences and understanding of human nature outside the colonialized Christian perspective. Thomas served as Co-Chair to the Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits (BAAIT-S) and is on the Board of the BAAIT-S Two-Spirit Powwow. She co-founded the Weaving Spirits Native Art Festival.