Two Spirit

There is a background of the beach in the foreground with the image of the Golden Gate Bridge in the background, at sunset, . In the upper left corner is the logo of the 2024 powwow in purple that has three rows of text; the top row says, “13th Annual Bay Area American Indian Two-spirits” the medium row says, “Two Spirit Powwow” and the bottom text says, “February 10: Fort Mason Pavilion, SF”. To the left of these row of text is diagonal text that says, “2024” and to the right is a graphic of a white feather. In the middle of the graphic is text in red with a white outline, in 3 rows. The first row is in large text and says, "Water Ceremony". the second row is in smaller red text that says, "Thurs, Feb 8, 1-4PM; the third row is also in small text and says, "Baker Beach, SF". Underneath that are 5 rows of text in white with purple outline. The first row says, "Bring water from your homelands"; the second row says, "Rain or Shine"; the third row says, "Dress for cold/ rain"; the fourth row says, "Register for all events at:" and the fifth row says, "https://baaits.eventbrite.com". To the right of all this text are 2 graphics in the upper left corner; the first is the BAAITS organization logo, that has the medicine wheel with an eagle flying to the right on top of it to the left; the middle of the logo has black text on top that says, "Bay Area", red text in the middle in larger letters that says, "BAAITS' with smaller black text underneath that bends downward and says, "American Indian Two Spirits." Under that logo is another logo that has text above a circle in black that says, "Uniting Resilience", a graphic of a circle in the middle that is split in half inside of it with the rainbow flag to the left and the trans flag to the right. On the outside of either side of the circle are small images of feathers attached to it. Underneath is small black text in two stacks that says, "Native; Two Spirit". Underneath both logos is the image of an auntie holding a child on their shoulders, both in regalia, in orange coloring, facing to the right and the image of a male presenting dancer in regalia in orange coloring, facing to the left
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Vincent Medina is the Roundhouse Outreach Coordinator at News from Native California. He is Ohlone, an active member in the Chochenyo language reawakening, a blogger, purveyor of acorn soup, and deeply loves the California Indian world.