In part one of this post, I outlined a framework for reading I call reading in kinship. This post is a continuation in that it’s an  introduction to one of many of my nádleeh relatives/teachers.  I recently read excerpts from a biography of Hastiin Klah[1].   Klah is  frequently referenced as an example of a prominent nádleeh in Diné... Continue Reading →

I find reading and learning about myself from the ethnographic record is…an experience, good and bad, and requires a lot of reading beyond the words and taking a lot of it with a good heap of skepticism.  Looking for scraps and slivers of nádleeh and dilbaa is wonderfully affirming, but also frustrating, sad, addictive, immersive in the... Continue Reading →

Dilbaa is the Diné word for a fourth-gendered person who’s biological make up is female but they live out their daily life as a male warrior, in other words they are a Male-bodied Female.  Along with nádleeh (along with asdzáá and hastiin, the Diné gender system includes four genders, I chose dilbaa for the title... Continue Reading →

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