Sherenté Harris and Stephanie Lamorre on BEING THUNDER – Leslie Combemale interviews
There’s a great new documentary out called Being Thunder that profiles and centers on what the indigenous people call a Two Spirit, a gender queer teenager, named Sherenté Harris. French filmmaker Stephanie Lamorre spent time living with Sherenté and their family at a crucial point in their teen years, between 14-17 years of age. Sherenté is a dancer who dances the Fancy Shawl dance at intertribal powwows, and the film is a witness to the discrimination and erasure they experienced in the course of their performances at these powwows.
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