Queer-decolonial pathways to planetary health promotion through Two-Spirit resistance and resurgence in the Deshkan Ziibi: a critical multi-methods analysis
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: The prevailing climate emergency continues to exacerbate health, economic and power inequities across the Global South and Global North. In particular, Two-Spirit people navigating their intersecting marginal identities confront health inequities stemming from colonially-induced climate disruptions, resource extractivism and land theft; yet, their perspectives are seldom considered in climate policy and practice. This is the case in the Deshkan Ziibi (the Thames River ecosystem in southwestern Ontario, Canada), where there is minimal climate-related literature that prioritizes Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer perspectives in the region. OBJECTIVE: To assess the impacts of the climate crisis on Two-Spirit health in the Deshkan Ziibi and highlight how Two-Spirit kincentric worldviews foster planetary health. METHODS: A critical multi-method approach was employed. A scoping review synthesized existing literature on Two-Spirit health and climate change, while traditional stories were analyzed through queer-decolonial frameworks to uncover alternative epistemologies and practices of multispecies relationality. RESULTS: Findings reveal that Two-Spirit people in the Deshkan Ziibi experience heightened vulnerability to the climate crisis due to intersecting systems of oppression. However, the research also identifies sites of agency that expose the colonial legacies embedded in dominant climate justice paradigms. CONCLUSION: This work calls for a re-evaluation of planetary health promotion, governance and interventions by incorporating Two-Spirit worldviews of interconnectedness.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.009 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".