Part 1. Interview w/intersex and endosex nonbinary people (Other Conversations, March 2023)

Part 1 of 2. Interview w/intersex and endosex nonbinary people. Jet Guadalupe Flores and Mo Cortez talk about their gender identities (e.g. nonbinary), their sexual identities (e.g. pansexual), pronouns they use, and where they grew up. We also talk about trans healthcare, such as hormone use and surgeries, and the harsh reality of being a trans or intersex person in Texas. Mo Cortez talks about being both intersex and trans and they talk about the early, forced medical intervention their life, the realization of being intersex, shame around that, continued invasive medical interventions, and the activism they do around intersex and trans issues. We also briefly touch on being pansexual, being poly vs being in an open marriage, and the gender binary myth and its relationship to white supremacy. Endosex https://translanguageprimer.com/endosex/ "What is intersex?" from Intersex Society of America https://isna.org/faq/what_is_intersex/ GLAAD media reference guide: nonbinary https://www.glaad.org/reference/nonbinary Transgender Foundation of America (TFA) https://tfahouston.com/ The Houston Intersex Society http://intersexhouston.com/ Representative Sylvia Garcia https://sylviagarcia.house.gov/ https://www.congress.gov/member/sylvia-garcia/G000587 Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) from the CDC https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/aces/ "Take The ACE Quiz — And Learn What It Does And Doesn't Mean" from NPR https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/03/02/387007941/take-the-ace-quiz-and-learn-what-it-does-and-doesnt-mean "I want to be as nature made me" from Human Rights Watch https://www.hrw.org/report/2017/07/25/i-want-be-nature-made-me/medically-unnecessary-surgeries-intersex-children-us Center for the Healing of Racism https://www.centerhealingracism.org/ Organización Latina Trans in Texas https://www.latinatranstexas.org/?fbclid=IwAR37xpAVmmyAqCcqsdcIA5SHJIPBrSnAPoCh8kaWWiuNQwmDpE6VDPRUHz4 Texas Advocates for Justice https://www.grassrootsleadership.org/texas-advocates-for-justice?fbclid=IwAR299WZ6fUEaAan-x9eViYD9DZaK2XLGu-gJMoRknD0NOtCJBVrnjKq_6Do Holy of Holies show and market https://www.eventbrite.com/e/holy-of-holies-art-show-and-market-tickets-588280401517 Montrose Grace Place homeless shelter https://www.montrosegraceplace.org/ Hatch Youth prom at Numbers https://montrosecenter.galaxydigital.com/need/detail/?need_id=684372 Trans Masculine Alliance of Houston https://transmasculinehouston.com/ The Montrose Center https://montrosecenter.org/ "Confederate Memorial in Orange ignites modern day civil rights struggle" from KFDM (CBS news) https://kfdm.com/news/local/confederate-memorial-in-orange-ignites-modern-day-civil-rights-struggle ------------------ Other Conversations is an independent, informal oral history project by Shane Brodie, a multi-issue activist and sculptor. This project is on hiatus as of Fall 2023 as I continue to slowly upload previous interviews, but it may continue later on in 2024 or thereafter. If you are interested in being interviewed sometime in the future, please email me (see below) and we can talk about that privately. I've interviewed transgender, nonbinary, gender non-conformist, agendered, neutrois, and intersex people who are anarchist, independent, conservative, egalitarian, progressive, free speech and gun rights enthusiasts, rural, religious, atheist, voluntaryist, mutualist, apolitical, skeptical, constitutionalist, classic liberal, libertarian, small political party members, socialist, DSA, communist, radical, revolutionary, or have a mixture of right/left views etc. If you've found these interviews interesting, please "like" and share them If you are interested in starting your own interview project, you are welcome to contact me if you think my experience might be useful to you and you want some advice. My email address is [e-mail] Thanks! #defundth