My Dilbaa Dreams
A blog by tsos
Utilizing the profundity of past, present, and speculative 2SLGBTQ+ literature, ephemera, music, and film, My Dilbaa Dreams is a space for looking back, above, below, and onward to go forward.
HONORING DINÉ GENDER IDENTITIES THROUGH WRITING
Dilbaa is the Diné word for a fourth-gendered person who’s biological make up is female but they live out their daily life as a male, in other words they are a Male-bodied Female. Because colonization has made it so that myself and other Dilbaa have had to hide that side of themselves our history has also experienced erasure.
Klah is frequently referenced as an example of a prominent nádleeh in Diné history, they are also just as frequently referenced as a gifted hataałii (he learned a ceremony in its entirety by the age of ten and was an expert weaver). A prodigious healer with an encyclopedic mind full of ceremonial knowledge.
After studying the Night Way ceremony for twenty-four years, Klah put up his own sheep and invited basically the whole Rez to come out and see just how well he’d learned and executed the ceremony. In true nádleeh fashion (imho), you planned and executed your own coming out party for the whole Rez!
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