Video Blog: Two-Spirit and Indigenous Health Considerations

Video Blog: Two-Spirit and Indigenous Health Considerations

Presented by: Harlan Pruden and Ryan Stillwagon

Harlan Pruden is Nehiyô/First Nations Cree who works with and for the Two-Spirit community locally, nationally, and internationally. Harlan is a co-founder of the Two-Spirit Dry Lab and the Indigenous Knowledge Translation Lead at Chee Mamuk, an Indigenous health program at the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control. Harlan is also the Managing Editor of TwoSpiritJournal.com and an advisory member for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research’s Institute of Gender and Health.

Ryan Stillwagon is a UBC Public Scholar and PhD Candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of British Columbia. Their dissertation work explores queer food security in Canada. They have published work on queer place-making and sexual health in the Journal of Indigenous HIV Research, City & Community, The Conversation, Contexts, and JMIR Public Health and Surveillance.