Ma-Nee Chacaby: 'I'm Old, But So What?' Says The Two-Spirit Elder

Ma-Nee Chacaby talks about learning that she was Two-Spirit as a kid, her rural upbringing, and the challenges of being an out indigenous lesbian in Thunder Bay, Canada in the 1980s. Ma-Nee is the author of A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder. (Note: This episode discusses domestic violence.) "Put love in front of you when you get up in the morning and it'll guide you to a beautiful place. It'll guide you." LGBTQ&A is an independent, listener-supported podcast. Please consider joining our Substack (https://lgbtqpod.substack.com/subscribe) as a paid Subscriber to help support our work. This is a part of our special series, The LGBTQ+ Elders Project. Click here (https://apple.co/3wFMoCX) to listen to our interview with the 92-year-old pioneer photographer Duane Michals.  LGBTQ&A is hosted and produced by Jeffrey Masters. @jeffmasters1 (  / jeffmasters1  )