Translations:Gender-variant identities worldwide/149/en

Kipijuituq

  • Name of identity: kipijuituq
  • Culture: Netsilik Inuit
  • Era: ??? - to present
  • Description of sex/gender: AMAB individuals raised from infancy as female, until they undergo a rite of passage and are henceforth seen as male[1][2]
  • Role in society:
  1. Walley, Meghan (2018). "Exploring Potential Archaeological Expressions of Nonbinary Gender in Pre-Contact Inuit Contexts". Études/Inuit/Studies. 42 (1).
  2. Gullason, Lynda (2007). "[Review] FRINK, Lisa, Rita SHEPARD and Gregory A. REINHARDT (eds), 2002 Many Faces of Gender: Roles and Relationships through Time in Indigenous Northern Communities, Boulder, University Press of Colorado and Calgary, University of Calgary Press, 257 pages". Études/Inuit/Studies. 31 (1–2): 375–380. doi:10.7202/019738ar.