What the hell is a ‘MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+’ person?
Canadian MP Leah Gazan used the acronym 'MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+' in a press conference to highlight funding cuts affecting Indigenous services, sparking widespread confusion and mockery for its complexity. The term stands for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, and Asexual people. Critics argue that such jargon alienates the public and reflects a growing disconnect between institutional language and everyday communication. The incident underscores tensions around identity politics, inclusion, and the use of increasingly technical terminology in public discourse.
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What the hell is a ‘MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+’ person? Canadian identity politics has jumped the shark. i Picture by: YouTube. dataLayer.push({ event: 'author', author: "Yuan Goh" }) Yuan Goh 28th April 2026 i Picture by: YouTube. Share Topics Identity Politics Want unlimited, ad-free access? Become a spiked supporter. ‘MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+’… Canadian MP Leah Gazan used this 16-letter acronym in a press conference at the beginning of April. Her statement went viral, meeting immediate confusion and ridicule. Many observers remarked that the string of characters resembled a scrambled wi-fi password. She couldn’t be serious, could she? But she was.
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