#Alicia Roth Weigel

[yourdailyqueer]

Alicia Roth Weigel

Gender: Female

Sexuality: N/A

DOB: Born 1990

Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish

Nationality: American

Occupation: Activist, writer, journalist

Note 1: Has osteoperosis

Note 2: Is Intersex

[variousqueerthings]

watching Every Body (centered around the stories of three intersex people Sean Saifa Wall, Alicia Roth Weigel and River Gallo)

and the first two minutes is a big montage of gender reveals..... more gender reveals than i ever wanted to see in my life

[moviemosaics]

Every Body

directed by Julie Cohen, 2023

[jmunneytumbler]

'Every Body' is an Essential Documentary About the Intersex Community

'Every Body' is an Essential Documentary About the Intersex Community

Every Body, EVERY Body, Every Body, EVERY Body (CREDIT: Courtesy of FOCUS FEATURES / © 2023 FOCUS FEATURES LLC) Starring: River Gallo, Alicia Roth Weigel, Sean Saifa Wall Director: Julie Cohen Running Time: 92 Minutes Rating: R for A Little Bit of Language and Nude Images Release Date: June 30, 2023 (Theaters) What’s It About?: Perhaps the least widely understood letter in the acronym LGBTQIA is…

[theforesteldritch]

hello??? The interact-youth blog follows me on here now??? As in the intersex advocacy org interACT??????!! I was not expecting this at all but it makes me really happy

[interactyouth]

"Intersex people are also impacted by anti-trans legislation, but too often we are the unmentioned casualties. We are constantly caught in the crossfire of culture wars or used as the “gotcha” moment in arguments to uplift others’ humanity, even as the painful discrimination our community faces—and the authentic beauty of our presence—remains hidden in plain sight. Long a vital element in the case for someone else’s truth, we are also tasked with defending our own. Intersex people are human beings too and deserve dignified lives beyond just proving bigotry wrong. We don’t exist to prove a point; we exist because we do."

Alicia Roth Weigel, "Trump’s ‘Biological Truth’ Executive Order is Not Based in Biology or Truth"

[intersex-support]

Intersex Resources: Books, Art, Videos

Here's a list with some resources to learn about intersex community, history, and politics! These include some academic sources and some community sources. I'd love to add sources in other languages and that focus on countries besides the United States, so if anyone has recommendations, please let me know. Continually updating and adding sources.

Reading list:

Intersex History:

"The Intersex Movement of the 1990s: Speaking Out Against Medical and Narrative Violence" by Viola Amato.

Hermaphrodites with Attitude Newsletters.

Jazz Legend Little Jimmy Scott is a Cornerstone of Black Intersex History By Sean Saifa Wall

"Hermaphrodites with Attitude: Mapping the Emergence of Intersex Political Activism" by Cheryl Chase

Chrysalis Quarterly: Intersex Awakening, 1997.

"What Happened at Hopkins: The Creation of the Intersex Management Protocols" by Alison Redick.

Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex by Elizabeth Reis.

Intersex Politics

“A Framework for Intersex Justice.” Intersex Justice Project

"Creating Intersex Justice: Interview with Sean Saifa Wall and Pidgeon Pagonis of the Intersex Justice Project." by David Rubin, Michelle Wolff, and Amanda Lock Swarr.

"Intersex Justice and the Care We Deserve: ‘I Want People to Feel at Home in Their Bodies Again." Zena Sharman.

Critical Intersex edited by Morgan Holmes.

Envisioning African Intersex: Challenging Colonial and Racist Legacies in South African Medicine by Amanda Lock Swarr.

"Intersex Human Rights" by Bauer et al.

Morgan Carpenter's writing

"I Want to Be Like Nature Made Me: Medically Unnecessary Surgeries on Intersex Children in the US." by Human Rights Watch.

Cripping Intersex by Celeste E. Orr.

"From ‘Intersex’ to ‘DSD’: A Case of Epistemic Injustice" by Ten Merrick.

"Did Bioethics Matter? A History of Autonomy, Consent, and Intersex Genital Surgery." by Elizabeth Reis.

Intersex Community

"Normalizing Intersex: Personal Stories from the Pages of Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics." edited by James DuBois and Ana Iltis.

Hans Lindhal's blog.

InterACT Youth Blog.

Intersex Justice Project Blog.

"What it's like to be a Black Intersex Woman" by Tatenda Ngwaru.

Intersex Inclusive Pride Flag by Valentino Vecchietti.

The Interface Project founded by Jim Ambrose.

Intersex Zines from Emi Koyama

Teen Vogue's Intersex Coverage

YOUth& I: An intersex youth Anthology by Intersex Human Rights Australia

Intersex OwnVoices books collected by Bogi Takacs.

Memoirs:

Nobody Needs to Know by Pidgeon Pagonis.

Inverse Cowgirl by Alicia Roth Weigel

XOXY by Kimberly Zieselman

Fiction:

Icarus by K Ancrum.

An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon

Video/Audio

Every Body dir. Julie Cohen.

Hermaphrodites Speak! 1997.

Liberating All Bodies: Disability Justice and Intersex Justice in Conversation.

"36 Revolutions of Change: Sean Saifa Wall."

Inter_View: An Intersex Podcast by Dani Coyle

Hans Lindhal's Youtube channel.

What it's Like to be Intersex from Buzzfeed.

Emilord Youtube channel

I'm intersex-ask me anything from Jubilee

What it's like to be Intersex-Minutes With Roshaante Andersen.

Pass the Mic: Intercepting Injustice with Sean Saifa Wall

Art

"Hey AAP! Get your Scalpels Off Our Bodies!" 1996.

Ana Roxanne's album Because of a Flower.

Intersex 1 in 90 potraits by Lara Aerts and Ernst Coppejans

Anyone can be Born Intersex: A Photo-Portrait Story by Intersex Nigeria.

Pidgeon Pagonis "Too cute to be binary" Collection

Juliana Huxtable Visual Art

Koomah's art

Please feel free to add on your favorite sources for intersex art, history, politics, and community !

[metalheadsagainstfascism]

-fae

[our-queer-experience]

"I have yet to read about, hear, or meet an intersex person who is grateful for the surgery done on them as an infant,"

-Dr. Monica J. Casper, quote in the New York Times, written by Barron H Lener, MD . Title: "If Biology Is Destiny, When Shouldn't It Be?"

"We don't think trans kids are normal, so feel free to withhold all care for them. And we don't think intersex kids are normal, so feel free to enforce whatever treatment you may want."

-Alicia Roth Weigel, on how anti-trans bills affect intersex people. Excerpt found In the new york times article "Power of Activism Shares the Frame With Intersex Lives: [The Arts/Cultural Desk]". written by Melena Ryzik

^^^^

[gay-otlc]

Beyond mere acceptance of intersex bodies, appreciation for our beautiful manifestation of humanity endures even in some modern religious like Hinduism and Judaism. One story in Genesis in the Hebrew Bible (the "Old Testament") about the creation of human beings can be translated as "And G-d created the human being in G-d image. G-d created it in the image of G-d; male and female, G-d created them" (Gen 1:27). In this reading, the original being was male and female; G-d created them- as in the singular nonbinary pronoun. Another story (Gen 2:21-22) says that G-d removed a rib from Adam to make Eve, implying that women owe men for our creation, but there is another interpretation, paraphrased from Mark Sameth's article in the Forward entitled "Was Adam A [H-slur]?" In Exodus 26:20, the same word, לצ, the word that has traditionally been understood to mean "rib" is used to mean "side"- it was a construction term referring to the side or the wall of the Tabernacle. So, if we understand that the phrase should mean "And G-d took the side of the Human...," all of a sudden, things start to make a bit more sense, and reminiscent of Plato's Symposium, even: the original human being was both male and female, with multiple sides, and G-d split them in half. People forget that the Bible was originally written in Hebrew, and many things have been lost in translation over the years, sometimes being intentionally manipulated to serve the personal worldviews of interpreters. Yes, many religions and the societies that embrace them negate our holiness (see the Vatican's official proclamation on trans and intersex folks in recent years...); others, however, see us as divine- the original human being whence all others came.

"Inverse Cowgirl," Alicia Roth Weigel

[libraryleopard]

icarus's reaction to learning that his love interest, helios, is intersex in icarus by k. ancrum is one of the sweetest thing i've read in a long time and having somewhat recently read alicia roth weigel's memoir inverse cowgirl in which she talked a lot about the shame and confusion of growing up intersex without the proper understanding or acceptance of her identity, i think it's really wonderful that intersex teenagers can read a book where a character like them is treated with such respect and love

[restbeyondtheriver]

2024 reads

the bodyguard by katherine center this is water by david foster wallace inverse cowgirl by alicia roth weigel educated by tara westover my happy marriage vol 6 by akumi agitogi ordinary men by christopher browning my happy marriage vol 7 by alumni agitogi men have called her crazy by anna marie tender

currently reading; the rise & fall of the third reich by william l shire, gentle & lowly by dane ortlund (hi em, congrats 💍 )

dnf: blud by rachel mckibbens

[theforesteldritch]

The state of the intersex tag is not great rn. Anyways to try to make it better with like good stuff my dads got a copy of Inverse Cowgirl by Alicia Roth Weigel and Nobody Needs to Know by Pidgeon Pagonis and is reading them, idk it’s nice when my parents just spontaneously do intersex allyship related stuff. Anyways I’ve read Inverse Cowgirl but not Nobody Needs to Know because I wasn’t able to find a copy to buy in person so he’s going to give me the copy of nobody needs to know when he’s done reading it and I see him next so I can read it

[intersex-support]

Image description: [Poster with intersex inclusive progress pride flag in the background. Text reads: Every Body Free Screenings. Boston, Thursday June 22 at 7pm. AMC Boston Common (175 Tremont St). Minneapolis, Thursday June 22 at 7pm. Showplace ICON at the West End (1625 West End Blvd). Philadelphia, Thursday June 22 at 7pm. PFS East (125 Sansom St Walkway). Chicago, Monday June 26 at 7pm. AMC River East 21 (322 E Illinois St). Los Angeles, Tuesday, June 27 at 6:30 pm. AMC The Grove (189 the Grove Dr). Q&A following the screening with Academy Award nominated, Emmy winning director Julie Cohen, producer Tommy Nguyen, and participant River Gallo. New York, Wednesday June 28th at 7pm. AMC Lincoln Square (1998 Broadway). Introduction by Academy Award-nominated, Emmy-winning director Julie Cohen.]

Summary of the film:

"Every Body is a revelatory investigation of the lives of intersex people. The film tells the stories of three individuals who have moved from childhoods marked by shame, secrecy, and non-consensual surgeries to thriving adulthoods after each decided to set aside medical advice to keep their bodies a secret and instead came out as their authentic selves. Actor and screenwriter River Gallo (they/them), political consultant Alicia Roth Weigel (she/they), and Ph.D. student Sean Saifa Wall (he/him) are now leaders in a fast-growing global movement advocating for greater understanding of the intersex community and an end to unnecessary surgeries. Woven into the story is a stranger-than-fiction case of medical abuse, featuring exclusive footage from the NBC News archives, which helps explain the modern-day treatment of intersex people."

I just got back from watching an early screening of this film and it was beautiful, powerful, and meaningful in ways I did not expect! Met so many intersex people in my city and it was just really really, incredible.

Really recommend watching this film for any intersex people. This is the link to rsvp to the free screenings.

The film will also be available in theaters on June 30th.

So, so excited about this!

[livingasaghost]

okay @permanentreverie did this in honor of book lovers day (aug 9) so here i am being obnoxious and sorting my favorite books based on genres bc i'm procrastinating editing

put it under read more because i'm annoying and this is longer than i thought it'd be ahjflksd

classics:

les miserables by victor hugo

1984 by george orwell

a midsummer night's dream by william shakespeare

hamlet by william shakespeare

the crucible by arthur miller

the great gatsby by f scott fitzgerald

contemporary romances:

red white and royal blue by casey mcquiston

with you forever by chloe liese

everything for you by chloe liese

beach read by emily henry

happy place by emily henry

a very merry bromance by lyssa kay adams

crazy stupid bromance by lyssa kay adams

love, theoretically by ali hazelwood

the love hypothesis by ali hazelwood

not in love by ali hazelwood

let's talk about love by claire kann

roomies by christina lauren

the hating game by sally thorne

fantasy:

tower of dawn by sarah j maas

kingdom of ash by sarah j maas

a court of mist and fury by sarah j maas

a court of silver flames by sarah j maas

the starless sea by erin morgenstern

a storm of swords by george r.r. martin

a feast for crows by george r.r. martin

wizard's first rule by terry goodkind

temple of the winds by terry goodkind

prince's gambit by c.s. pacat

kings rising by c.s. pacat

a discovery of witches by deborah harkness

jade legacy by fonda lee

the dragon republic by r.f. kuang

babel by r.f. kuang

every heart a doorway by seanan mcguire

the magician's nephew by c.s. lewis

priory of the orange tree by samantha shannon

strange the dreamer by laini taylor

sci-fi:

the host by stephenie meyer

nona the ninth by tamsyn muir

graphic novels / comics:

monstress by marjorie liu & sana takeda

check please by ngozi ukazu

the boy the mole the fox and the horse by charlie mackesy

heartstopper by alice oseman

lore olympus by rachel smythe

fence by c.s. pacat & johanna the mad

heart of gold by eliot baum & viv tanner

the prince & the dressmaker by jen wang

historical fiction:

cloud cuckoo land by anthony doerr

the book thief by markus zusak

literary fiction:

evenings & weekends by oisín mckenna

henry henry by allen bratton

a little life by hanya yanagihara

piranesi by suzanna clarke

malibu rising by taylor jenkins reid

if we were villains by m.l. rio

the invisible life of addie larue by v.e. schwab

real life by brandon taylor

s by doug dorst

horror:

house of leaves by mark z danielewski

imaginary friend by stephen chbosky

night film by marisha pessl

don't let the forest in by c.g. drews

middle grade:

magyk by angie sage

a kind of spark by elle mcnicoll

sir callie and the champions of helston by esme symes-smith

holes by louis sachar

the mighty heart of sunny st james by ashley herring blake

new adult:

loveless by alice oseman

obsidian by jennifer l armentrout

masters of death by olivie blake

alone with you in the ether by olivie blake

angelfall by susan ee

the sunshine court by nora sakavic

the king's men by nora sakavic

vicious by v.e. schwab

queenie by candice carty-williams

hell bent by leigh bardugo

nonfiction:

into the wild by john krakauer

it was vulgar and it was beautiful by jack lowery

the last lecture by randy pausch

what i want to talk about by pete wharmby

furiously happy by jenny lawson

ace by angela chen

blood sweat and chrome by kyle buchanan

refusing compulsory sexuality by sherronda j brown

the great divorce by c.s. lewis

the cancer journals by audre lorde

the dark interval by rilke

inverse cowgirl by alicia roth weigel

translated works:

the memory police by yōko ogawa

vita nostra by marina dyachenko

the strange library by haruki murakami

young adult:

the mask falling by samantha shannon

check & mate by ali hazelwood

i was born for this by alice oseman

the hunger games by suzanne collins

just listen by sarah dessen

ignite me by tahereh mafi

the unexpected everything by morgan matson

save the date by morgan matson

tash hearts tolstoy by kathryn ormsbee

neverworld wake by marisha pessl

the spirit bares its teeth by andrew joseph white

compound fracture by andrew joseph white

the wicked king by holly black

short story collections:

the tangleroot palace by marjorie liu

what is not your is not yours by helen oyeyemi

the late americans by brandon taylor

filthy animals by brandon taylor

seven empty houses by samanta schweblin