An artwork that invoked a strong feeling was “Four Genders were Born” (2022) by NANIBAH CHACON. The artists was said to be born in Diné (Navajo), and they depicted two Native American people, one man and one woman, however, they had swapped genitalias. It portrayed both as naked, but the woman had a penis and the man had a vagina. Not only was seeing the nudity a large shock to me, but also the depiction of them having “switched” body parts. The artist describes the meaning of the work through “how the gender binary did not always align with Indigenous worldviews.” It provides a larger cultural aspect to indigenous culture but also gender norms. It showed how the colonization of western influences put these cultures in shameful light, but they were taking back the power to show how different cultures doesn’t necessarily mean a bad thing.

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