#intersexisbeautiful

When thinking about intersex/trans/GNC people, [tongue in cheek] I disagree with some whose work I look up to greatly, such as Eli Clare’s scholarship on disability, and believe we indeed need to work together to find a cure [/tongue in cheek]. It’s beyond time we invent a joint-cure for this useless and diseased binary society and it’s sick and unfit social engineers – those within the Medical Industrial Complex who perform harmful non-consensual “normalizing” procedures on intersex/trans/GNC kids such as Dr. Earl Cheng, a pediatric urologist at @luriechildrens who still defends and performd clitorecromies on intersex kids. Comment below other names of people in the Medical Industrial Complex who we need to cure. It’s time we #CUREtheMIC
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#intersex #intersexstories #intersexisbeautiful #toocutetobebinary #nonbinary #trans #gnc #queer #lgbtqia #lgbtqi #lgbtq #lgbt #lgbt #medicalindustrialcomplex #humanrights (at Chicago, Illinois)

Featuring as a guest on @nancypodcast live in Chicago this weekend at a really beautiful old school theatre (in my hometown) is definitely up there on my list of “favorite things about being an intersex educator & activist!” As the year wraps up, I’d like to remind everyone that no matter what they tell you – sex and gender are not mutually exclusive and they’re definitely NOT binary. Our society needs to keep chugging along towards understanding that everything is complex, and our bodies and genders are not exempt. Once society says goodbye to its current obsession with a binary way of viewing sex and gender (which has its roots the colonizer’s worldview that was forced upon Native Americans), then I believe we all take one giant step forward towards the collective liberation we all are fighting for (especially queer, trans, GNC, & intersex people). If you’d like to book me to speak, show my short documentary, consult your high school’s biology department, keynote, or give a workshop…please don’t hesitate to send me an email [email protected] (link in bio). I’m currently beginning to book 2018 dates as we speak, and would love to visit you wherever youre are. (P.S. In 2017 I manifested that I wanted make intersex awareness my full-time gig with a secondary goal of trying to speak at more medical colleges and hospitals. Thanks to Rush University, UIC College of Medicine and UW-Milwaukee’s School of Nursing I have begun to see the realization of that intention. In 2018, I want to manifest a few more things: 1. Speak and show my film to more clinicians/Nurses and medical students. 2. Build on the success of our small yet mighty group: Intersex People of Color for Justice (and collaborate on more actions and protests at Childrens’ Hospitals). 3. Begin to lay the groundwork necessary to purchase a home one day for my dog Callie and I Thank you for all your support, love, and guidance along the way! ▪️ beautiful photos cc: @loveandstrugglephotos •
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#✨ #intersexstories #intersex #lgbt #collegespeaker #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queer #nonbinary #gender #genderqueer #intersexisbeautiful #nb #trans #lgbtq #keynotespeaker #keynotepresenter #collegepresenter (at The Athenaeum Theatre - Chicago)

Thank you @uww_prc & @uwwimpact for having me on your campus the past few days visit a class, screen my documentary, and kick-off National #ComingOutDay 2017. I’ve never visited a campus queer center as rad as yours! Thank you for treating me like family and letting me share my coming out story with you all ✨ TL;DR version of my coming out day speech I born intersex, didn’t know until 18, came out as intersex to gf, came out as queer to fam & friends, then came out as intersex to fam friends and world, and recently came out as non-binary, and now coming out as a supporter of #Blacklivesmatter, #Palestine, #Undocumented Folks, #SanctuaryforAll, #NoBordersNoWalls on stolen land, and that 45 is a White Supremacist & coming out is a process like love and it’s never finished ◾️Have a great time at Homecoming you all! thank you again for having me (all photos except selfies were taken and provided by the amazing and uber talented @simplyramz!) .
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#intersexstories #toocutetobebinary #NationalComingOutDay #queer #queeraf #IntersexIsBeautiful #nonbinary #lgbtq #lgbt #lgbtqia #gay #college #collegelife #collegespeaker #campuslife (at UW-Whitewater)