Ty Defoe

Ty Defoe is a Two-Spirit performance artist, Grammy Award-winning musician, and educator. Defoe is from the Oneida and Ojibwe Tribes, and currently lives in New York City. One of Defoe's most notable performances was playing one of the "persons in charge" in the play "Straight White Men", alongside Kate Bornstein.

Quotes
"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.'"

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