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Chrystos (Christina Smith) was born on 7 November, 1946 in San Francisco, California, USA, is an American writer, activist. Discover Chrystos's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 77 years old?

Popular As Christina Smith
Occupation Writer artist activist
Age 77 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 7 November, 1946
Birthday 7 November
Birthplace San Francisco, California, USA
Nationality United States

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1946

Chrystos (born November 7, 1946, as Christina Smith) is a writer and activist who has published various books and poems that explore Indigenous Americans's civil rights, social justice, and feminism.

They self-identify as Menominee and two-spirit, but are not a citizen of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin or any other Native American tribe.

Chrystos is also a lecturer, writing teacher and fine-artist.

The poet uses the pronouns "they" and "them".

1980

A self-described political poet, Chrystos was inspired by familial angst stemming from European American cultural hegemony, and more positively influenced by the work of Audre Lorde, Joy Harjo, Elizabeth Woody, and Lillian Pitt, among others, to produce a series of volumes of poetry and prose throughout the 1980s and 1990s.

Chrystos' work focuses on social justice issues, such as how colonialism, genocide, class and gender affect the lives of women and Indigenous peoples.

Much of the writer's childhood is evident in works about street life, gardening, mental institutions, incest, "the Man" (authoritarian patriarchy), love, sex, and hate.

The works are primarily intended for an audience of Native American / First Nations, people of color more broadly, and lesbians.

The works are also aimed at raising awareness of Native American heritage and culture, while breaking down stereotypes.

Chrystos self-illustrated many of the covers, and usually had the books published in Canada to work around censorious American publishers and "very little support for writers" in the United States.

While they’re better known for their poems about social justice, Chrystos also has a significant body of erotic poetry.

This work has been called "delicious reading" and adopts a celebratory tone, in contrast to the darker themes in their other work.

They co-edited

1999

Best Lesbian Erotica 1999 with Tristan Taormino.

Chrystos' awards and honors include a National Endowment for the Arts grant, the Human Rights Freedom of Expression Award, the Sappho Award of Distinction from the Astrea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, a Barbara Deming Grant, and the Audre Lorde International Poetry Competition.

Chrystos' activism has focused on efforts to free Norma Jean Croy and Leonard Peltier, and the rights of tribes such as the Diné (Navajo) and Mohawk people.

2010

In a 2010 interview with Black Coffee Poet, Chrystos described their social justice interests as "diverse," citing abortion, wife-battering, and prisoner issues, although they acknowledge these issues are of "no immediate benefit" to them.

2011

Chrystos – a resident of Ocean Shores, Washington since 2011 – is a lesbian- and two-spirit-identifying writer, artist and activist.

Born in San Francisco, California, self-identifying as an urban Indian, Chrystos was taught to read by a self-educated father, and began writing poetry at age nine.

Chrystos has written of a difficult, "emotional and abnormal" childhood, including sexual abuse by a relative, life with an abusive and depressed white mother, Virginia (née Lunkes) of Lithuanian and Alsatian descent, and a father they claims was Menominee, Fletcher L. Smith, who was a WW2 veteran.

At the age of seventeen, Chrystos was placed into a mental institution.

They fell into drug addiction, alcoholism, and prostitution during this time.

They would be re-institutionalized several more times before deciding it was ineffective in helping their mental health issues.