Alexus Young
she/her

Alexus Young is a First Nations person with medium brown skin and long, wavy brown hair. She is standing in front of a black background, smiling slightly. She is wearing a white jacket over a white top and large dangling earrings.

Job title
director   writer  
Identity categories
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Two Spirit   trans   woman   First Nations   Cree  
Places of practice

Swan River, Manitoba, Canada

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Alternate names

Alexus R. Young

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Alexus Young is a First Nations person with medium brown skin and long, wavy brown hair. She is standing in front of a black background, smiling slightly. She is wearing a white jacket over a white top and large dangling earrings.

Alexus Young is a First Nations person with medium brown skin and long, wavy brown hair. She is standing in front of a black background, smiling slightly. She is wearing a white jacket over a white top and large dangling earrings.

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Biography

Alexus Young (b. Manitoba, 1970) is two-spirited woman working on themes of colonialism, police brutality, First Nations identity, in essay and animation. She has been a videomaker since 2005, when she began working on projects with professional mentors at Crossing Communities Art Project in Winnipeg. She is two-spirited, hails from Swan River, Manitoba, moving from Winnipeg to Toronto in the 2010s. Young's collaborative work with video and interdisciplinary artist Jess MacCormack, Where we were not; Feeling Reserved, Alexus' Story(2012, 6min) has screened nationally and internationally at ImagiNative, Inside Out LGBT Film Festival and Bildwechsel (Hamburg, Germany).

Media Queer. “Alexus Young.” Accessed August 9, 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20210516222615/https://www.mediaqueer.ca/artist/alexus-young.
Filmography
References
Media Queer. “Alexus Young.” Accessed August 9, 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20210516222615/https://www.mediaqueer.ca/artist/alexus-young. Windspeaker, David P. Ball. “Alexus Young Showcases Healing from Starlight Tour Abuses at ImagiNATIVE.” Aboriginal Multi Media Society, 2012. https://ammsa.com/publications/windspeaker/alexus-young-showcases-healing-starlight-tour-abuses-imaginative.