{"id":567,"date":"2011-07-19T14:02:53","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T19:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/?p=567"},"modified":"2011-07-19T14:02:53","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T19:02:53","slug":"two-spirits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/two-spirits\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Spirits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Find this film in a library near you.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/oclc\/567781503\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Two Spirits.<\/em> DVD. Press &amp; festival screener. Dir. Lydia Nibley. Riding the Tiger Productions, 2010.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0pt none; float: left; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-568\" title=\"Cover of Two Spirits\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Two-Spirits-e1311102122980.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"266\" \/><em>Two Spirits,<\/em> the excellent documentary directed, coproduced, and cowritten by Lydia Nibley, explores the brief life and murder of sixteen-year-old Fred Martinez in Colorado. Fred was seen by his killer as gay, but was seen in his Navajo tradition as a &#8220;nadleeh,&#8221; a person who blends masculine and feminine characteristics \u2014 being two spirited.<\/p>\n<p>As of this writing, <em>Two Spirits<\/em> is scheduled for television broadcast as a segment in PBS&#8217;s series Independent Lens in June 2011. Interviews with family members, Native American scholars, and reenacted scenes examine the nadleeh tradition, Fred Martinez&#8217;s life and death, and the impact of his death on his family and community. The film\u2019s score is performed by Native American musicians.<\/p>\n<p>This documentary should be considered for purchase by all public and academic libraries, and would find use by those studying U.S. history, gender studies, Native American history and culture, hate crimes, and documentary filmmaking.<\/p>\n<p><em>Reviewed by, <strong>Dave Combe<\/strong><\/em><em><br \/>\nLibrarian Specialist<\/em><em><br \/>\nE. P. Foster Library<\/em><em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Spirits. DVD. Press &amp; festival screener. Dir. Lydia Nibley. Riding the Tiger Productions, 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,35,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}