intersex
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Honey Lauren talks about her excellent debut feature film ‘MISTAKE’
Award-winning writer/director Honey Lauren‘s feature film debut, MISTAKE, is one of the rare pieces of art that actually gave our Editor/reviewer very weepy eyes. ‘MISTAKE’ is not just a tale of gender dysphoria but a rather beautiful love story full of empathy that celebrates difference. Larry was born intersex back in the 1970’s in the…
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The Secret of Me : a compelling doc of a raging medical expose of how an Intersex person was mistreated
Last week was Intersex Awareness Day, which marked the anniversary of the first public demonstration by intersex people in North America in 1996, and was created to raise awareness of human rights issues facing intersex people and promote understanding, respect, and inclusion for intersex people. To celebrate the occasion in Australia the City of Sydney…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews WHO I AM NOT : breaking the intersex taboo
Who I Am Not is a fascinating documentary chronicling the lives of two engaging, very different, black intersex people; South African ex-beauty queen Sharon-Rose, and unemployed fellow South African, Dimakatso, both of whom live in Johannesburg. Intersex people are people born with any of several sex characteristics including chromosome patterns, gonads, or genitals…
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Julie Cohen’s EVERY BODY a revelatory investigation of the lives of intersex people premieres at Tribeca
Academy Award Nominee Julie Cohen (RBG and My Name is Pauli Murray) latest movie will premiere at Tribeca this June. Every Body tackles a subject that is so often totally misunderstood and I think has never made the silver screen yet. Cohen’s documentary is a revelatory investigation of the lives of intersex people. The film…
