#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

[metalheadsforblacklivesmatter]

-fae

[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, welcome home)

dnf: blud by rachel mckibbens

[variousqueerthings]

Alicia Roth Weigel (Every Body, 2023)

[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

[hippo-pot]

i finished Inverse Cowgirl (memoir by intersex activist Alicia Roth Weigel), I got some stuff out of it but looking forward to reading more from other folks. Just started The Race to be Myself by Caster Semenya

[swordsofsaturn]

to elaborate on my book buying problem. went into dymocks to potentially buy jenette mccurdy i'm glad my mum died but then flicking through it i thought maybe i wouldn't actually be that interested reading it. like idk the way it's written seems a little uninteresting to me. huge fan in theory but alas. anyway so there i was in the biographies section. not normally my preferred genre. though that's a lie i guess because i like memoir. i like personal essays. but usually the biographies section of franchise bookstores is full of like. sports stars and actors and other mainstream and kind of boring celebrities writing about their lives in boring ways. anyway this section was far more diverse and interesting and i came away with elliot page pageboy alicia roth weigel inverse cowgirl and michelle zauner crying in H mart. also arrived in the mail is rachel kushner the hard crowd essays which i'd ordered online. now what the hell am i supposed to read first

[notjustanyannie]

Hundreds of thousands of Americans have something in common, something that, for the most part, they have been encouraged to hide. It's so little talked about, in fact, that the greater population may not realize just how prevalent they are.

These people are intersex – an umbrella term for variations in reproductive or sex anatomy, and could show up in someone's chromosomes, genitals, testes or ovaries. It's estimated that 1.7% have intersex traits, and 0.7% are recommended to have surgical intervention.

Documentary "Every Body" (in theaters Friday) aims to give this community a platform. The film offers a history of how treatments for intersex people became commonplace; how intersex people are often lost in wider LGBTQ+ conversations; and how through coming together and raising their voices, their stories can finally be heard.

"Who's speaking up for the human rights of intersex people? And the answer to that question, of course, is intersex people themselves," says director Julie Cohen.

Several activists – Sean Saifa Wall, 43; Alicia Roth Weigel, 31; and River Gallo, 31 – want you to hear their loud, proud voices.

"I hope that people allow themselves to be moved (by the film) and be moved in such a way to really question what they've learned about, what they haven't learned about and to be curious about themselves," Wall says. "We've all been lied to," Wall adds, when it comes to the limited knowledge we've been given on sex, gender, and the intersex community. 

[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 !

[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