The suicide rate in indigenous communities is 1.5 higher compared to the entire USA population. Statistics show native males take their own life more than non-indigenous males of 19 years two to eighteen times greater (ibid). Two-spirit aboriginals have a greater risk of taking their own life than non-native, non-heterosexual individuals. Alcohol and illicit drug use, addiction and death is most prevalent amongst indigenous people as well, along with HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases (Fieland et al., p.275-277). All evidence indicates that aboriginal men and women, regardless whether their LGBTQ or two-spirit undergo more mental and physical health complications than any other ethnicity (Fieland et al.,2007).
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Evidence shows there is an incline of violence directed towards those who do not display heteronormativity. Racism and homophobia work together hand in hand through institutional prejudice. On the bright side, LGBTQ and Two-Spirit officials are making headway up the political ladder (p.3). Hunt & Homes articulated how LGBTQ & two-spirit people are not even fully safe at home. It may be possible be “site of oppression, violence, and surveillance” (p.159). The bisexual umbrella as previously mentions includes all people who do not have attraction for only one gender or monosexuality, including two-spirit people. A common misconception of the umbrella is to promote homogeneity, when really it is providing a common place for all non-heterosexual individuals to fall under (Flanders, …show more content…
This would expand the audience, and more support for the community (Costanza-Chock & Schweidler, p.8). Media is commonly fixated on one problem at a time; therefore suggested media should identify the intersectionality between structural, gender based and sexuality oppression. These intersectionality’s are poverty, socioeconomic deprivation, ethnicity, and disabilities (p.9). If media can achieve this, it will subsequently create a larger audience and create new alliances within and out of the community (p.12). Media can be helpful by also publicizing to those who live in remote areas, such as reserves, the poor, and those incarcerated (p.21). Unfortunately media can do as much harm as good to the LGBTQ and Two-Spirit community (p.22). According to Robinson, media presents bisexual women as sex symbols and “hypersexual for the males gaze”. This sexualization of bisexual women is linked to violence against bisexuals (Robinson, p.20). This is a lack of research for LGBTQ and Two-Spirit people negative side effects of media (Costanza-Chock & Schweidler,
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Evidence shows there is an incline of violence directed towards those who do not display heteronormativity. Racism and homophobia work together hand in hand through institutional prejudice. On the bright side, LGBTQ and Two-Spirit officials are making headway up the political ladder (p.3). Hunt & Homes articulated how LGBTQ & two-spirit people are not even fully safe at home. It may be possible be “site of oppression, violence, and surveillance” (p.159). The bisexual umbrella as previously mentions includes all people who do not have attraction for only one gender or monosexuality, including two-spirit people. A common misconception of the umbrella is to promote homogeneity, when really it is providing a common place for all non-heterosexual individuals to fall under (Flanders, …show more content…
This would expand the audience, and more support for the community (Costanza-Chock & Schweidler, p.8). Media is commonly fixated on one problem at a time; therefore suggested media should identify the intersectionality between structural, gender based and sexuality oppression. These intersectionality’s are poverty, socioeconomic deprivation, ethnicity, and disabilities (p.9). If media can achieve this, it will subsequently create a larger audience and create new alliances within and out of the community (p.12). Media can be helpful by also publicizing to those who live in remote areas, such as reserves, the poor, and those incarcerated (p.21). Unfortunately media can do as much harm as good to the LGBTQ and Two-Spirit community (p.22). According to Robinson, media presents bisexual women as sex symbols and “hypersexual for the males gaze”. This sexualization of bisexual women is linked to violence against bisexuals (Robinson, p.20). This is a lack of research for LGBTQ and Two-Spirit people negative side effects of media (Costanza-Chock & Schweidler,