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| | gender=[[Two-Spirit]]<ref name="Mistry">{{Cite web |title=How Two-Spirit Fits Into LGBTQ America |last=Mistry |first=Anupa |work=The FADER |date=8 September 2016 |access-date=9 December 2020 |url= https://www.thefader.com/2016/09/08/two-spirit-america-ty-defoe|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230324123334/http://www.thefader.com/2016/09/08/two-spirit-america-ty-defoe |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>
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| '''Ty Defoe''' is a [[Two-Spirit]] performance artist, Grammy Award-winning musician, and educator.<ref name="Mistry" /> Defoe is from the Oneida and Ojibwe Tribes, and currently lives in New York City.<ref name="osfa_Gree">{{Cite web |title=Green Show Artist: Ty Defoe |author= |work=Oregon Shakespeare Festival |date= |access-date=9 December 2020 |url= https://www.osfashland.org/en/artist-biographies/green-show/Ty-Defoe.aspx|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181212030433/https://www.osfashland.org/en/artist-biographies/green-show/Ty-Defoe.aspx|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> Defoe's 2011 music album "Come to Me Great Mystery" was awarded a Grammy.<ref name="Caven">{{Cite web |title=The Shapeshifting Artist: Ty Defoe |last=Caven |first=Febna Reheem |work=Cultural Survival Quarterly Magazine |date=September 2015 |access-date=9 December 2020 |url= https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/shapeshifting-artist-ty-defoe|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230606053154/https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/shapeshifting-artist-ty-defoe |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> One of Defoe's most notable performances was playing one of the "persons in charge" in the play "Straight White Men", alongside [[Kate Bornstein]].<ref name="Green">{{Cite web |title=Review: 'Straight White Men,' Now Checking Their Privilege on Broadway |last=Green |first=By Jesse |work=New York Times |date=23 July 2018 |access-date=9 December 2020 |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/23/theater/straight-white-men-review-armie-hammer-josh-charles.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230403035346/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/23/theater/straight-white-men-review-armie-hammer-josh-charles.html |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>
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| {{quote|Coming out as two-spirit was quite challenging because in Western society, the word for me is transgender — I would be a transgender male. But that kind of implies going from one gender to the next, and I was like, 'No, I think there's something else.'<ref name="Mistry" />}}
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| ==Links==
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| *[https://www.tydefoe.com/ Website]
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| *[https://twitter.com/TyDefoe Twitter]
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| *[https://www.instagram.com/tydefoe/ Instagram]
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