Intersex Stories Need to Be Heard, And This Multimedia Project Is Amplifying ThemIntersex Awareness
Intersex Stories Need to Be Heard, And This Multimedia Project Is Amplifying Them
Intersex Awareness Day presents an opportunity to reflect on the intersex rights movement and the intersex community. While honest and empathetic conversations around being intersex have slowly grown in recent years, media representation is still all too rare.
My Own Wings is one project attempting to illuminate the authentic stories of intersex people. Organized by photographers Katia Repina and Carla Moral, My Own Wings brings together different testimonies from intersex people living around the world. These testimonies are bolstered via photos, interviews, a documentary film, and research on different social, medical, and legal issues involving the intersex community. Its creators’ aim is to enrich public dialogue surrounding gender identity and intersex human rights issues by amplifying the stories of intersex people.
Repina spoke with them. about the project, what it’s taught her and Moral over the last four years, and how they hope to spread awareness about intersex people and their life experiences.
