Reflection on the erasure and condemnation of the energetic forces of two-spirited beings

homophobia and transphobia, among other things, *directly stem from white supremacy, colonization and westernization. the supremacists that colonized the lands (and the inner lands)- deemed people that were beyond *their binary as abnormal, yet its exactly those beings that were foundational to the roles of healers, shamans, leaders and medicine people.

How do we disentangle these (mass) illusions and beliefs that we’ve been prescribed by colonizers who felt that they were more entitled to the land, the beings, and simultaneously the overall narrative/s of a culture/s that was/is rich in tradition and ripe with magic before they ever stepped foot there. How did we allow white supremacy to make us uncomfortable and shameful towards our own inner fluidity which is our divine birthright? How/why did we (as a whole) become so uncaring that we allowed this erasure of an entire way of being/s which is associated with divinity within our own communities? I think we know that things can’t be balanced because we still see so much harm of (particularly) the feminine which absolutely includes the feminine trait within biological men. a lot of people think it’s a woman’s issue (though we absolutely and disproportionately see women being negatively impacted) but if we step back a bit we’ll see that it’s exactly the internal wounded feminine- which is genderless, and beyond form.

I’m curious how we can broaden this topic while validating the experience/s of women- AND bring men into the topic in a way that ceases seeing the overt energetic structures of man/woman as solely victim and perpetrator~ which i believe is also a tactic that keeps us stuck. I see this two spiritedness not to say that everyone is transgender (at least not our westernized prescribed beliefs of trans-ness) but instead as a way to internally broaden and ease the burdens of restrictions and inner calcification that were (/are) force fed and continually perpetuated via a tunnel of white supremacy ~disguised as “correctness”.

We can also notice historically a fear of the colonizers (including our forcefully transmitted inner colonizer) which leads to overt, unnecessary and merciless destruction of anything thats misunderstood (knowing that something that’s not understood can be the very force that holds the true power which can be dealt in a way that cannot be monitored, (particularly ~a force beyond (their understanding) of force).

We see this occurring in destructive attempts to erase and condemn mysticism, mystical practices and ancestral displays of veneration, too— colonizers “discover” a foreign land and exert force and malicious tactics with the goal of forcing the people of the land to convert to their bland, unrooted, uncultured ideals, though a guise to distract from how powerless one feels upon witnessing so much magic that they deny within themselves.

Ultimately the roots could never become untethered, and I think this is being realized despite (and within) attempts to continue to cut back anything that blooms. Though we must remember,

“You can cut all the flowers but you can’t stop spring”