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Transgender Spirituality: Machete Mendias

Category: Health
Duration: 00:51:15
Publish Date: 2009-04-28 16:02:09
Description:

Is madness part of a deeper calling? How is being transgender — transitioning from one gender to another — a spiritual process?

Machete Mendias, female-to-male transgender activist and artist, discusses his life beyond the borders of gender identity, normality, and conventional definitions. Machete describes his childhood experiences with visions, ritual self-harm and hair-pulling (trichotillomania), and medications, as well as the role of transgendered people as healers, mystics, and shamans.

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