#DSD: K

[blackfemmecharacterdependency]

Black Femme Character Dependency Dark Skin Directory: K

K: The Characters

Kai Jones | Kali | Kanak | Karal | Karen Jenson | Karla Wilson | Kate SFAM | Kate Alen | Kate Sacker | Kayla Watts | Kazi | Keesha Franklin | Keisha Taylor 4400 | Keke Raymond | Kelly TWD | Kelly Curtis | Kelsey Phillips | Ketsu Onyo | Khadijah | Khessa | Kiki Pizza | Kim Martinez | Kim Reese | Kira TI | Kitty | Koala Princess | Koki | Kory Anders | Kristin Shafe | Krystal Bailey | Kuasa | Kym Hawkins 

K: The Entertainers

Kabrina Adams |  Karen Glave |  Karen Obilom | Karidja Touré |  Karimah Westbrook |  Keeya King |  Kellie Shanygne Williams |  Kellita Smith |  Kelly Rowland | Kenya Moore |  Keshia Knight Pulliam |  Kiara Pike |  Kiki Layne |  Kimberly Marable |  Kirby Howell Baptiste |  Kyla Ramsey 

[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 !

[intersexbookclub]

Summary: Chapter 4 of Critical Intersex

For many of us, Chapter 4 of Critical Intersex (2009) turned out to be a particularly rich source of information about intersex history. So I (Elizabeth) have decided to give a fairly detailed summary of the chapter because I think it’s important to get that info out there. I’m gonna give a little bit of commentary as I go, and then a summary of our book club discussion of the chapter.

The chapter is titled “(Un)Queering identity: the biosocial production of intersex/DSD” by Alyson K. Spurgas. It is a history of ISNA, the Intersex Society of North America, and how it went from being a force for intersex liberation to selling out the movement in favour of medicalization. (See here for summary of the other chapters we read of the book!)

Our high level reactions:

Elizabeth (@ipso-faculty): Until I read chapter 4, I didn't really realise how reactionary “DSD” was. It hadn't been clear to me how much it was a response to the beginning of an organized intersex advocacy movement in the United States.

Michelle (@scifimagpie): I could feel the fury in the writer's tone. It was a real barn burner.

Also Michelle: the fuckin' respectability politics of DSD really got under my skin, as a term! I know the importance, as a queer person, of not forcing people to ID as queer, but this was a lot.

Introducing the chapter

The introduction sets the tone by talking about how in the Victorian era there was a historical shift from intersex being a religious/juridical issue to a pathology, and how this was intensified in the 1950s with John Money’s invention of the optimal gender rearing model. 

Spurgas briefly discusses how the OGR model is harmful to intersex people, and how it iatrogenically produces sexual dysfunction and gender dysphoria. “Iatrogenic” means caused by medicine; iatrogenesis is the production of disease or other side-effects as a result of medical intervention.

This sets scene for why in the early 1990s, Cheryl Chase and other intersex activists founded the Intersex Society of North America (ISNA). It had started as a support group, and morphed significantly over its lifetime. ISNA closed up shop in 2008.

Initially, ISNA was what we’d now call interliberationist. They were anti-pathologization. Their stance was that intersexuality is not itself pathological and the wellbeing of intersex people is endangered by medical intervention. They organized around the abolition of surgical intervention. They also created fora like Hermaphrodites With Attitude for the deconstruction of bodies/sexes/genders and development of an intersex identity that was inherently queer. 

The early ISNA activists explicitly aligned intersexuality in solidarity with LGB and transgender organizing. There was a belief that similar to LGBT organizing, once intersex people got enough visibility and consciousness-raising, people would “come out” in greater numbers (p100).

By the end of the 90s, however, many intersex people were actively rejecting being seen as queer and as political subjects/actors. The organization had become instead aligned with surgeons and clinicians, had replaced “intersex” with “DSD” in their language.

By the time ISNA disbanded in 2008 they had leaned in hard on a so-called “pragmatic” / “harm reduction” model / “children’s rights perspective”. The view was that since infants in Western countries are “born medical subjects as it is” (p100)

Where did DSD come from? 

In 2005, the term “disorders of sexual differentiation” had been recently coined in an article by Alice Dreger, Cheryl Chase, “and three other clinicians associated with the ISNA… [so as] to ‘label the condition rather than the person’” (p101). Dreger et al thought that intersex was “not medically accurate” (p101) and that the goal should be effective nomenclature to “sort patients into diagnostically meaningful groups” (p101).

Dreger et al argued that the term intersex “attracts the interest of a large number of people whose interest is based on a sexual fetish and people who suffer from delusions about their own medical histories” (Dreger et al quoted on p101)

Per Spurgas, Dreger et al had an explicit agenda of “distancing intersex activism from queer and transgressive sex/gender politics and instead in supporting Western medical productions of intersexuality” (p102). In other words: they were intermedicalists.

According to Dreger et al, an alignment with medicine is strategically important because intersex people often require medical attention, and hence need to be legible to clinicians. “For those in favor of the transition to DSD, intersex is first and foremost a disorder requiring medical treatment” (p102)

Later in 2005 there was a “Intersex Consensus Meeting” organized by a society of paediatricians and endocrinologists. Fifty “experts” were assembled from ten countries (p101)... with a grand total of two actually intersex people in attendance (Cheryl Chase and Barbara Thomas, from XY-Frauen). 

At the meeting, they agreed to adopt the term DSD along with a “‘patient-centred’ and ‘evidence-based’ treatment protocol” to replace the OGR treatment model (p101)

In 2006, a consortium of American clinicians and bioethicists was formed and created clinical guidelines for treating DSDs. They defined DSD quite narrowly: if your gonads or genitals don’t match your gender, or you have a sex chromosome anomaly. So no hormonal variations like hyperandrogenism allowed.

The pro-DSD movement: it was mostly doctors

Spurgas quotes the consortium: “note that the term ‘intersex’ is avoided here because of its imprecision” (p102) - our highlight. There’s a lot of doctors hating on intersex for being a category of political organizing that gets encoded as the category is “imprecise” 👀

Spurgas gets into how the doctors dressed up their re-pathologization of intersex as “patient centred” (p103) - remember this is being led by doctors, not patients, and any intersex inclusion was tokenistic. (Elizabeth: it was amazing how much bs this was.)

As Spurgas puts it, the pro-DSD movement “represents an abandonment of the desire for a pan-intersexual/queer identity and an embrace of the complete medicalization of intersex… the intersex individual is now to be understood fundamentally as a patient” (p103)

Around the same time some paediatricians almost came close to publicly advocating against infant genital mutilation by denouoncing some infant surgeries. Spurgas notes they recommended “that intersex individuals be subjected (or self-subject) to extensive psychological/psychiatric, hormonal, steroidal and other medical” interventions for the rest of their lives (p103).

This call to instead focus on non-surgical medical interventions then got amplified by other clinicians and intermedicalist intersex advocacy organizations.

The push for non-surgical pathologization hence wound up as a sort of “compromise” path - it satisfied the intermedicalists and anti-queer intersex activists, and had the allure of collaborating with doctors to end infant surgeries. (Note: It is 2024 and infant surgeries are still a thing 😡.)

The pro-DSD camp within the intersex community

Spurgas then goes on to get into the discursive politics of DSD. There’s some definite transphobia in the push for “people with DSDs are simply men and women who happen to have congenital birth conditions” (p104). (Summarizer’s note: this language is still employed by anti-trans activists.)

The pro-DSD camp claimed that it was “a logical step in the ‘evolution in thinking’” 💩 and that it would be a more “humane” treatment model (p105) 💩

Also that “parents and doctors are not going to want to give a child a label with a politicized meaning” (p104) which really gives the game away doesn’t it? Intersex people have started raising consciousness, demanding their rights, and asserting they are not broken, so now the poor doctors can’t use the label as a diagnosis. 🤮

Spurgas quotes Emi Koyama, an intermedicalist who emphasized how “most intersex people identify as ‘perfectly ordinary, heterosexual, non-trans men and women’” (p104) along with a whole bunch of other quotes that are obviously queerphobic. Note from Elizabeth: I’m not gonna repeat it all because it’s gross. In my kindest reading of this section, it reads like gender dysphoria for being mistaken as genderqueer, but instead of that being a source of solidarity with genderqueers it is used as a form of dual closure (when a minority group goes out of its way to oppress a more marginalized group in order to try and get acceptance with the majority group).

Koyama and Dreger were explicitly anti-trans, and viewed intergender type stuff as “a ‘trans co-optation’ of intersex identity” (p105) 🤮

Most intersex people resisted “DSD” from its creation

On page 106, Spurgas shifts to talking about how a lot intersex people were resistant to the DSD shift. Organization Intersex International (OII) and Bodies Like Ours (BLO) were highly critical of the shift! 💛 BLO in particular noted that 80-90% of their website users were against the DSD term. Note from Elizabeth: indeed, every survey I’ve seen on the subject has been overwhelmingly against DSD - a 2015 IHRA survey found only 3% of intersex Australians favoured the DSD term.

Proponents of “intersex” over “DSD” testified to it being depathologizing. They called out the medicalization as such: that it serves to reinforce that “intersex people don’t exist” (David Cameron, p107), that it is damaging to be “told they have a disorder” (Esther Leidolf, p107), that there is “a purposeful conflation of treatment for ‘health reasons’ and ‘cosmetic reasons’ (Curtis Hinkle, p107), and that it’s being pushed mainly by perisex people as a reactionary, assimilationist endeavour (ibid).

Interliberationism never went away - intersex people kept pushing for 🌈 queer solidarity 🌈 and depathologization - even though ISNA, the largest intersex advocacy organization, had abandoned this position.

Spurgas describes how a lot of criticism of DSD came from non-Anglophone intersex groups, that the term is even worse in a lot of languages - it connotes “disturbed” in German and has an ambiguity with pedophilia and fetishism in French (p111).

The DSD push was basically entirely USA-based, with little international consultation (p111). Spurgas briefly addresses the imperialism inherent in the “DSD” term on pages 118/119.

Other noteworthy positions in the DSD debate

Spurgas gives a well-deserved shout out to the doctors who opposed the push to DSD, who mostly came from psychiatry and opposed it on the grounds that the pathologization would be psychologically damaging and that intersex patients “have taken comfort (and in many cases, pride) in their (pan-)intersex identity” (p108) 🌈 - Elizabeth: yay, psychiatrists doing their job! 

Interestingly, both sides of the DSD issue apparently have invoked disability studies/rights for their side: Koyama claimed DSD would herald the beginning of a disability rights based era of intersex activism (p109) while anti-DSDers noted the importance in disability rights in moving away from pathologization (p109).

Those who didn’t like DSD but who saw a strategic purpose for it argued it would “preser[ve] the psychic comfort of parents”, that there is basically a necessity to coddle the parents of intersex children in order to protect the children from their parents. (p110) 

Some proposed less pathologizing alternatives like “variations of sex development” and “divergence of sex development” (p110)

The DSD treatment model and the intersex treadmill

Remember all intersex groups were united that sex assignment surgery on infants needs to be abolished. The DSD framework that was sold as a shift away from surgical intervention, but it never actually eradicated it as an option (p112).  Indeed, it keeps ambiguous the difference between medically necessary surgical intervention and culturally desired cosmetic surgery (p112). (Note from Elizabeth: funny how *this* ambiguity is acceptable to doctors.)

What DSD really changed was a shift from “fixing” the child with surgery to instead providing “lifelong ‘management’ to continue passing” (p112), resulting in more medical intervention, such as through hormonal and behavioural therapies to “[keep] it in remission” (p113).

Cheryl Chase coined the “intersex treadmill’: the never-ending drive to fit within a normative sex category (p113), which Spurgas deploys to talk about the proliferation of “lifelong treatments” and how it creates the need for constant surveillance of intersex bodies (p114). Medical specialization adds to the proliferation, as one needs increasingly more specialists who have increasingly narrow specialties.

There’s a cruel irony in how the DSD model pushes for lifelong psychiatric and psychological care of intersex patients so as to attend to the PTSD that is caused by medical intervention. (p115) It pushes a capitalistic model where as much money can be milked as possible out of intersex patients (p116).

The DSD treatment model, if it encourages patients to find community at all, hence pushes condition-specific medical support groups rather than pan-intersex advocacy groups (p115)

Other stuff in the chapter

Spurgas does more Foucault-ing at the end of the chapter. Highlight: “The intersex/DSD body is a site of biosocial contestation over which ways of knowing not only truth of sex, but the truth of the self, are fought. Both intelligibility and tangible resources are the prizes accorded to the winner(s) of the battle over truth of sex” (p117)

There’s some stuff on the patient-as-consumer that didn’t really land with anybody at the book club meeting - we’re mostly Canadians and the idea of patient-as-consumer isn’t relatable. Ei noted it isn’t even that relatable from their position as an American.

***

Having now summarized the chapter, here's a summary of our discussion at book club...

Opening reactions

Michelle (M): the way the main lady involved became medicalized really made my heart sink, reading that.

Elizabeth (E): I do remember some discussion of intersex people in the 90s, and it never really grew in the way that other queer identities did! This has kind of helped for me to understand what the fuck happened here.

E: It was definitely a very insightful reading on that part, while being absolutely outraging. I didn't know, but I guess I wasn't surprised at how pivotal US-centrism was. The author was talking about "North American centric" though but always meant the United States!!! Canada was just not part of this! They even make mention of Quebec as separate and one of the opposing regions. I was like, What are you doing here, America? You are not the entirety of our continent!!!

E: The feedback from non-Anglophone intersex advocates that DSD does not translate was something that I was like, "Yes!" For me, when I read the French term - that sounded like something that would include vaginismus, erectile dysfunction - it sounds far more general and negative.

M: the fuckin' respectability politics of DSD really got under my skin, as a term! I know the importance, as a queer person, of not forcing people to ID as queer, but this was a lot.

E: it was very assimilationist in a way that was very upsetting. I knew intellectually that this was going on. There was such a distinct advocacy push for that. The coddling of parents and doctors at the expense of intersex people was such a theme of this chapter, in a way that was very upsetting. They started out with this goal of intersex liberation, and instead, wound up coddling parents and doctors.

Solidarities

M: I feel like there's a real ableist parallel to the autism movement here… It dovetails with how the autism movement was like, "Aww, we're sorry about your emotionless monster baby! This must be so hard for you [parents]!" And it felt like "aw, it's okay, we'll fix your baby so they can interface with heterosexuality!" [Note: both of us are neurodivergent]

E: A lot of intersexism is a fear that you're going to have a queer child, both in terms of orientation and gender.

E: You cannot have intersex liberation without putting an end to homophobia and transphobia.

M: We're such natural allies there!

E: I understand that there are these very dysphoric ipsogender or cisgender people, who don't want to be mistaken as trans, but like it or not, their rights are linked to trans people! When I encounter these people, I don't know how to convey, "whether you like it or not, you're not going to get more rights by doing everything you can to be as distant as possible."

M: it reminds me of the movements by some younger queers to adhere to respectability politics.

E: Oh no. There are younger queers who want respectability politics????

M: well, some younger queers are very reactionary about neopronouns and kink at pride. they don't always know the difference between representation and "imposing" kinks on others. In a way, it reminds me of the more intentional rejection of queer weirdos, or queerdos, if you will, by republican gays.

E: I feel like a lot of anti-queerdom that comes out of the ipso and cisgender intersex community reads as very dysphoric to me. That needs to be acknowledged as gender dysphoria.

M: That resonates to me. When I heard about my own androgen imbalance, I was like, "does that mean I'm not a real woman?" And now I would happily say "fuck that question," but we do need an empathy and sensitivity for that experience. Though not tolerance for people who invalidate others, to be honest.

E: The term "iatrogensis" was new to me. The term refers to a disease caused or aggravated by medical intervention.

M: So like a surgical complication, or gender dysphoria caused by improper medical counselling!

The DSD debate

ei: i think the "disorder" discussion is really interesting. in my opinion, if someone feels their intersex condition is a disorder they have every right to label it that way, but if someone does not feel the same they have every right to reject the disorder label. personally i use the label "condition". i don't agree with forcing labels on anyone or stripping them away from anyone either.

M: for me, it felt like a cautionary tale about which labels to accept.

ei: i'm all around very tired of people label policing others and making blanket statements such as "all people who are this have to use this label”... i also use variation sometimes, i tend to go back and forth between variation and condition. I think it's a delicate balance between being sensitive to people's label preferences vs making space for other definitions/communities.

We then spoke about language for a bunch of communities (Black people, non-binary people) for a while

E: one thing that was very harrowing for me about this chapter is that while there was this push to end coercive infant surgery, they basically ceded all of the ground on "interventions" happening from puberty onward. And as someone who has had to fight off coercive medical interventions in puberty, I have a lot of trauma about violent enforcement of femininity and the medical establishment.

ei: i completely agree that it's psychologically harmful tbh…. i was assigned male at birth and my doctors want me to start testosterone to make me more like a perisex male. which is extremely counterproductive because i'm literally transfem and have expressed this many times

Doctors Doing Harm

M: for me, the validation of how doctors can be harmful in this chapter meant a lot.

E: something that surprised me and made me happy was that there were some psychiatrists who spoke out against the DSD label. As someone who routinely hears a lot of anti-psychiatry stuff - because there's a lot of good reason to be skeptical of psychiatry, as a discipline - it was just nice to see some psychiatrists on the right side of things, doing right by their patients. Psychiatrists were making the argument that DSD would be psychologically harmful to a lot of intersex people.

ei: like. being told that something so inherently you, so inherently linked to your identity and sense of self, is a disorder of sexual development, something to be fixed and corrected. that has to be so harmful

ei: like i won't lie i do have a lot of severe trauma surrounding the way i've been treated due to being intersex. but so much of my negative experiences are repetitive smaller things. Like the way people treat me like my only purpose is to teach them about intersex people …. either that or they get really creepy and gross. I’m lucky in that i'm not visibly intersex, so i do have the privilege of choosing who knows. but there's a reason why i usually don't tell people irl.

M: intersex and autism have overlap again about how like, minor presentation can be? As opposed to the sort of monstrous presentation [Carnival barker impression] "Come see the sensational half-man, half-woman! Behold the h-------dite!" And like - the way nonverbal people are also treated feels relevant to that, because that's how autism is often treated, like a freakshow and a pity party for the parents? And it's so dehumanizing. And as someone who might potentially have a nonverbal child, because my wife is expecting and my husband and she both have ADHD - I'm just very fed up with ableism and the perception of monstrosity.

Overall, this was a chapter that had a lot to talk about! See here for our discussion of Chapters 5-7 from the same volume.

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[kcyars99]

Carini did not keep her guard up, and her hook was weak AF.

Also, DSD is real, and all the TERFs are transphobic, misogynistic AND anti-science.

And dear Lord please take the pain away from Celine Dion and give it to J. K. Rowling with her transphobic self seriously I don’t wanna watch a Harry Potter movie or read a book the franchises based on because of her

If I'm Imane Khelif, I'm suing the shit out of JK Rowling for defamation and whatever the British equivalent of intentional infliction of emotional distress is. Can she sue in British court? I have no idea. But I would if I could because fuck that wizard lady!

The end.

[thearbourist]

Males with DSD's Should Not Compete in Female Categories. A FAQ to clear the air.

Take a gander at the discourse around the Olympic Boxing debacle.  False narratives rather than facts are being propagated at an alarming pace.  Here is a FAQ intended to clear up the questions around this boxing scandal.     “A rapid-fire FAQ: 1. “L & K are just women with high testosterone!” Khelif and Lin were never tested for their testosterone levels. The claims that they were disqualified…

[jzontheazarian]

Queen of the K-Wang Reigns Supreme 20 Years Later

From her early Florida roots to her global fanbase, Khia, the firebrand rapper and self-proclaimed “Queen of the South,” is celebrating two decades of reign with the re-release of her iconic debut album, “Thug Misses.” Back in 2002, this Southern spitter dropped an atomic bomb on the music scene with her raw lyricism, unapologetic sexuality, and streetwise swagger. Remember “My Neck, My Back (Lick It)?” Yeah, that was Khia, the track that sent shockwaves through radio stations and dance floors alike, forever etching her name in hip-hop history.

But “Thug Misses” wasn't a one-hit wonder. It was a lyrical buffet overflowing with anthems like “The K-Wang,” a celebration of female pleasure that redefined the conversation about women's ownership of their bodies in hip-hop. Tracks like “Don't Trust” and “Jealous Girls” solidified Khia's street cred, proving she could spit venom with the best of them while staying true to her Southern roots. 

Now, two decades later, “Thug Misses” is getting a royal makeover. Khia is blessing fans with fresh visuals and electrifying remixes, breathing new life into these timeless classics. It's a testament to the enduring power of her music, which transcended trends and resonated with a generation of women hungry for unapologetic self-expression.

Khia's influence stretches far beyond catchy hooks and chart-topping singles. She paved the way for a new wave of female rappers who weren't afraid to own their sexuality and challenge the male-dominated norms of hip-hop. From Nicki Minaj to Cardi B, the echoes of Khia's lyrical fire can be heard in the verses of today's hottest stars.

In 2002, Khia, a sassy Southern firecracker from Tampa Bay, unleashed her debut album “Thug Misses” on the world. A potent cocktail of dirty rap, Southern hip hop, and hardcore rhymes, the album exploded onto the scene with unapologetic lyrics, infectious beats, and a raw authenticity that resonated with audiences hungry for something different. But beyond the surface swagger, “Thug Misses” was an album brimming with depth, tackling themes of female empowerment, street life, and the complexities of relationships. Twenty years on, Khia isn't just revisiting her past; she's reclaiming it, reimagining it, and using it to pave the way for a new generation of female rebels. “Thug Misses 20 Year Anniversary” isn't just an album; it's a declaration. 

Her cultural impact is undeniable. From the sultry, self-assured “Thug Miss” to the brash, unapologetic “My Neck, My Back (Lick It),” Khia's music has been a sonic middle finger to double standards and a celebration of female agency. She's embraced the Southern crunk sound, experimented with pop melodies, and even dabbled in reggae, constantly pushing boundaries while staying true to her raw, unfiltered voice. Let's dive into some of the standout tracks that cemented Khia's status as a force to be reckoned with.

Khia's Own “K-Wang”: Forget the Macarena, make way for the K-Wang!! This playful, confident anthem celebrates the self-made dance craze Khia birthed in the Tampa club scene. The track pulsates with a bouncy beat, punctuated by Khia's sassy rhymes and infectious laughter. It's a celebration of owning your moves, your space, and your fun – a testament to Khia's unapologetic self-expression.

Don't Trust the Charm: Beneath the swagger, Khia packs a punch with cautionary tales like “Don't Trust.” Featuring fellow Tampa rapper DSD, the song warns women against the seductive yet deceptive charms of manipulative men. The lyrics are raw and unflinching, detailing the emotional and physical scars left by betrayal. “Don't Trust” became an anthem for women (and men) seeking strength and wisdom in the face of deceit, proving that Khia wasn't afraid to tackle tough topics.

“My Neck, My Back (Lick It)” The Song That Launched a Career: It's impossible to talk about “Thug Misses” without mentioning the elephant (or rather, the neck) in the room. “My Neck, My Back (Lick It)” became Khia's signature tune, a catchy, explicit ode to pleasure that ignited controversy and propelled her into the mainstream. Written in a mere 15 minutes, the song's boldness and unapologetic embrace of female sexuality sparked conversations, divided critics, and ultimately became a cultural phenomenon. Whether loved or loathed, “My Neck, My Back” cemented Khia's status as a provocateur and a voice for unapologetic female desire.

Jealous Girls Ain't Got No Time: But Khia wasn't just about sex and sass. “Jealous Girls” is a defiant track that takes aim at the haters and critics who tried to bring her down. Over a fierce, pulsating beat, Khia spits fire, celebrating her own success and loyalty to her friends and fans. The song is a testament to her resilience and self-confidence, a reminder that she wasn't afraid to stand her ground and own her space.

“Thug Misses” was more than just a debut album; it was a cultural moment. Khia's raw talent, unapologetic lyrics, and catchy beats carved a space for a new kind of female rapper – one who wasn't afraid to be bold, brash, and brutally honest. With each standout track, she challenged expectations, sparked conversations, and proved that Southern hip hop had a fierce new voice. Let Khia's “Thug Misses” remind you that sometimes, the most powerful music comes from the most unexpected places.

But beyond the music, Khia's visuals are a statement. In a world where female rappers are often forced into cookie-cutter molds, Khia stands tall, refusing to be tamed. Her videos are a riot of individuality, a celebration of her Southern roots, her love for independence, and her unwavering confidence in her own skin. They're a middle finger to anyone who tries to box her in, a reminder that Khia is, and always has been, the definition of “on her own terms.”

Back with her latest record “Body” the seasoned veteran makes another steppers anthem to keep you moving all throughout the night, but infuses her signature sound into the mix making. A true treat for those who’ve stuck around for the long and bumpy ride to look forward to more music beyond the horizon.

So, raise a glass (or a spiked seltzer, as Khia might prefer) to the Queen of the K-Wang. Twenty years on, “Thug Misses” is still a sonic masterpiece, a reminder that Khia's presence is far from over. A testament to the lyrical legacy she continues to build, one fiery verse at a time.

Khia, one of the undisputed “Queens of the South,” isn't one to rest on her laurels. Twenty years after the audacious, expletive-laced firecracker that was her debut album, Thug Misses, she's back, not with a greatest hits package, but with a full-blown sonic and visual reinvention. “Thug Misses 20 Year Anniversary” isn't just a remastered trip down memory lane; it's a vibrant celebration of Khia's enduring legacy, introducing her raw rhymes and unapologetic swagger to a whole new generation.

But Khia's legacy goes beyond catchy hooks and infectious beats. She's a lyrical pioneer who paved the way for women to own their sexuality in hip-hop. Before Cardi B's anthems and Saweetie's confident declarations, Khia was boldly rapping about pleasure, desire, and owning her body on her own terms. Her influence is evident in the music of artists like City Girls and Sexyy Red, who carry the torch of unapologetic femininity with pride.

The echoes of Khia's impact extend beyond hip-hop. Pop icons like Miley Cyrus and Janet Jackson have acknowledged work, her raw energy and lyrical prowess. Even Trick Daddy, a figure known for his own brand of braggadociousness, found common ground with Khia on their collaborative track “Jump On It.”

However Khia's journey hasn't been without its thorns. Beefs, lawsuits, label issues, and online drama have peppered her career. Yet, she's navigated these challenges with the same fiery spirit that defines her music. She's refused to be silenced, unapologetically defending herself and her artistic vision.

Khia's story is one of resilience, of carving a space for unapologetic femininity in a male-dominated genre. She's a trailblazer who deserves her rightful place in the hip-hop pantheon. Her music has inspired countless women, not only to express themselves freely, but to demand respect and recognition on their own terms.

So next time you hear a confident female rapper owning her sexuality, a hint of Khia's fire might be flickering within. Remember, the Thug Misses helped paved the way.

[pineapplerightsideupcake]

At this point I have to assume you’re so desperate for my credentials because you don’t have a coherent argument. I know what chromosome expression is. It’s not a social binary. Which is what you said. Don’t try and wriggle out of that by implying I don’t know what both halves of that sentence meant. What made it nonsense was you smashing it together.

What I said is that I’d taken statistics and science classes at the masters level after you snidely told me to go take a basic stats class.

I do not have a PhD. I have a masters in Environmental Science specializing in conservation. No, I will not be doxing myself. Believe me or don’t.

I’m not appealing to my own authority and never was. I was responding to your obnoxious comment. You then derailed, quite conveniently, into demanding proof of a PhD but hold yourself to no such standard. I am appealing to the overall consensus of science.

So which degree do you consider valid to have this conversation and do you have it?

Anyway here’s a paper that doesn’t even contradict your silly philosophy

Sadly most other information is behind paywalls. But you can enjoy 1000 opinion pieces appealing to emotion, conflating social roles with biology, and repeating the false narrative that DSDs disprove a binary and most hilariously, the desperate cope of “but clownfish” and other fauna that are not Homo sapiens.

Speaking of DSDs, here is a statement from an intersex persons activist group on how it’s not helpful to be conflated with trans identity and it is largely apolitical.

And under TRA philosophy I am intersex. So allow me to assure you I’m not less of a woman due to my condition.

https://ihra.org.au/18194/differences-intersex-trans/

Hateful, wrong and- B O R I N G

Seriously, they think they're making anything better? It's harming mental health, it's against the science, anti human rights and B O R I N G

serious I do not understand.

[diwangpalaboy]

DS 123 group quiz (submission on Tuesday)

1. trifocal system 2. Randy David 3. Communication 325 4. course pack training 5. madrasah 6. EdD 7. professional doctorate 8. pre-service training 9. in-service training 10. Master Class 11. Malay 12. Budhi 13. 4Ps 14. program heads 15. artist (UPOU Oblation, doctoral academic hood) 16. APGAR test 17. Prof Neen Sapalo 18. ‘stats and stories’ 19.  explanatory sequential design 20. exploratory sequential design a. quantitative then qualitative b. mixed methods c. formal, nonformal and informal education d. Diwang Palaboy e. Prof P Padilla f. Islamic education g. Doctor in Education h. EdD, DComm, DBA, DPA, DrPH, DSD i. continuing professional development (CPD) j. former FR k. BS Education l. Dr Librero, Dr Flor, Dr Craig, Dr Jamias, Dr Moran m. DLSU n. ADMU o. “social assistance + social development” p. Prof Perez, Dr Reyes, Dr Linatoc q. Dr Grace J Alfonso r. pediatrician s. BA in Development Studies, MA in Anthropology t. qualitative then quantitative

[creature-of-the-stars]

A - "Be Still"

E - "Keep Your Enemies Closer"

F, K, M

Hey Anon!

A: How did I come up with the title to Be Still? lol, I envisioned how panicked Alma would be given her situation and in a prison, and I could see her having a nightmare, or just being overwhelmed. I thought it would be a tender thing for Letant to say to her. Or, even after they were happy and together, she might still have some lingering trauma. But, when it came time to write, that scene never took place or seemed appropriate - ironically, I ended up feeling as though Letant would be the one to have the insecurities and nightmare, and Alma would be the one to comfort him. I tend to keep the titles to anything I write simple or abstract and not directly related. Plus, I didn't want to include "Silence" in the title because of DeepSpace's fic lol

E: Omg I've been thinking about this one. It would be challenging for Eve once on Romulus, but I can see Vreenak being incredibly supportive despite the vibes he gives off. Everyone probably thinks she is there against her will (which would be really demeaning and humiliating for her unfortunately), but Vreenak would wave off the gossip and probably threaten anyone who dared to make a crass joke about it. I can see word getting around that their relationship is more genuine than what was assumed. Perhaps there is a plot to hurt Vreenak and there other senators (like in canon) and she thwarts it using her skills as an agent, but does so without Vreenak knowing? That would be a cool place to take it I think. Either way, all she really wants to do is tend to her plants, but may have to kick some ass if need be 😎.

F. I put my top choice in my answer to DSD, but a good second place is this one because I love how sarcastic and sassy they are with each other:

Letant jolted awake. In a flash, thoughts of Alma and the dream raced through his mind and he shot a hand out to feel across the bed for her. His palm was met with fabric, but the soft warmth underneath flooded him with relief and he laid his head back down onto the pillow. Then, a light hand touched him, feeling his fearful heart pounding in his side, and a pair of lips placed a scalding hot kiss right over the spot where it kicked powerfully into his ribs.

“Be still, love. I’m not going anywhere.”

He sighed in relief and gave the top of her head a kiss. “I’m sorry, e’lev. Go back to sleep.”

“Nah, I’d been drifting in a sort of twilight sleep for a little while now. My mind doesn’t want to rest, it seems.”

“What troubles you? We’re out of harms way for the foreseeable future, and you now have a devoted slave at your beck-and-call for the rest of your life,” he joked making Alma giggle and slap at him. “So what is it?”

“Just thinking about us and what we’re going to do now, but also some lingering questions about what happened yesterday.”

“Like what?" 

----

"...I doubt you will cast a poor light on me, Alma.” Wanting to lighten the mood, he continued, teasing, “And if you do, we’ll just have to run away to Earth, tuck ourselves into some remote corner of your planet where no one will bother us and we won’t have to deal with any of this nonsense again.”

His teasing had the desired effect; Alma’s anxiety abated and her face broke out into a wide smile. “Oh? I suppose to make things even easier, you could get your forehead ridges shaved down and then just pass as my Vulcan lover.”

“Now you go too far,” he said with a smile, rolling her over to ‘discipline’ her for her cheekiness.

K: The angstiest I've ever come up with: Well, a friend and I have been brainstorming some pretty angst stuff (actually about Letant/Alma). I'm not sure I could go through with doing that to them, but I can see doing a fic about an established Romulan/OC relationship. Let's just say it revolves around the fact that human and Romulan lifespans are not very compatible if the Romulan isn't pretty old when they meet. How would a widower Romulan deal with that, and how would he cope with new feelings he eventually has for a human friend of his wife? Yeah - sad stuff 😔.

M: backburner stories:

Tholos/OC fic. Enemies to lovers with an interesting twist, some angst, but very satisfying.

Ambassador/OC: can't decide if I want a Romulan or an Andorian ambassador (I might do 2 one shots so I don't have to choose). Dealing with a climate completely different than one's own while on a diplomatic mission is a huge pain in the ass, but your human aide seems to handle it just fine - all of the awkward moments that come from these scenarios is too good to resist.

Andorian/OC: Enemies to friends, friends to lovers with a ride-or-die vibe. They are both intelligence agents for Starfleet and work together as partners. Slow burn.

Koval/OC: Koval as a character is just asking to be set up with a human Federation doctor, right? Starfleet intelligence needs him to live so he can keep working with them - they call on her.

This is probably wayyyy longer than you wanted, but here you go anon 😅. thanks!

[les3bruixes]

Hola mis Duendes!! Tal día como hoy, hace muchos años, se celebrará un día muy especial, ya que se honraba, la dedicación, lucha, esfuerzo, amor, sabiduría, respeto... Era el día de esas personas, k dsd el momento que saben la noticia, sus vidas y mentes cambian. Se celebraba el día de la madre, así que muchas felicidades a todas mis mamis, fuertes y amorosas. (en Bagá) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl51e80I2nP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[opencommunion]

“Under the proposed model of medical management associated with DSD, surgery is not completely eradicated as an option for treatment of intersex, although it is generally recommended that it be avoided in most cases. Based on the debates around surgery among various players within the medical field, it is apparent also that the boundary between what is cosmetic and what is medically necessary surgical intervention is still in dire need of clarification. It is also apparent that even in current practice, this boundary is strategically blurred both by medical practitioners and by intersex activists/allies, so that what is actually culturally desired is posited as medically necessary.

When an intersex individual is surgically ascribed a discrete male/female sex, this individual often requires lifelong ‘management’ in order to continue to pass as that sex. ... In the late twentieth century, a lucrative market emerged from lifelong treatment of the post-surgical intersex body via hormonal and behavioral therapy/training, continuous aesthetic surgeries and medical surveillance. The never-ending drive to fit within a normative sex category is what Cheryl Chase has described as the ‘intersex treadmill’. Thus, the shift to DSD protocol begs the questions: How will the body that is afflicted with a disorder of sex development and which is posited as continuously in need of maintenance actually be maintained in a non-surgical treatment landscape? What new types of post-disciplinary (self-)management techniques—be they psychological/psychiatric, behavioral, hormonal, steroidal, or even neurological or genetic—will become the new modus vivendi for intersex care? What will come to fall under the rubric of ‘at-risk’ psychological symptoms, social behaviors, or types of embodiment when it comes to holding intersex in abeyance or keeping it in remission, and how will ever-expanding teams of medical specialists preemptively deal with these ‘at-risk’ individuals and their symptoms?

... According to ['DSD' medical researcher Robert] Blizzard, ‘In most instances of an intersex problem, a medical emergency is not present but a mental and/or social emergency very likely is’ (italics in original). … Thus, the new medical protocol associated with DSD takes the specter of intersex very seriously, as a threat to be guarded against. It positions the pre-/post-/intersex body as a haunted body that must be constantly surveilled and preemptively managed, so that the individual’s at-risk status is never realized, the ambiguity is kept in (profitable) remission, and the (hetero)normative identity remains secure. Who stands to profit from this production of intersex as a problem necessitating perpetual medical management, surveillance and securitization must be considered with the proposed transition to DSD. How are decisions to be made, and what is at stake in these decision-making processes—for Western technoscientific medicine, for a culture founded upon institutionalized (hetero)sexism, and for pre-/post-/intersex individuals who invariably become patients, and perhaps more importantly, become consumers in a late capitalist climate?"

Alyson K. Spurgas, "(Un)Queering Identity: The Biosocial Production of Intersex/DSD", in Critical Intersex ed. Morgan Holmes, 2009

[smilepilled]

"privileged little karen" just who has the free time to be yapping in my inbox about this, right after i bothered you? i am constantly seeking treatment and solutions for my problems and repeatedly experiencing negative outcomes from it, based on who i am or my social status or my sex or my appearance or my disabilities or otherwise. you can argue i dont experience forms of oppression like bodily mutilation at a young age (intersexist erasure of intersex people) or other specific type of opression, that will not erase the years of segregation and dehumanization i experience for (checks notes) being intersex. other people in the intersex community with what you call "actually intersex disorders" would wholeheartedly accept these experiences as "one of theirs", for a lot of them share the specifics with mine. we dont need perisex views on this, nor do we have to be "decent".

if you cared about intersex people you'd refer to their bodies as intersex, not with the infamous intersexist "DSD". you'd respect the idea of intersex as a term expanding and evolving. but you clearly do not, nor do you care about sexist oppression or "medical misogyny" — otherwise you'd speak up on any other cases of such without coming for intersex people online like a man screaming "WITCH!!!" in the old era. there are so many things for you to locate your energy into, yet i dont fucking see you doing SQUIT online, which is the bare bones minimum.

your feminism is bland, shallow, and it does nothing in active practice to help anyone. most of us dont want your radicalized views and opinions on things — let alone your actions. you are nothing but a cosplayer of J. K. rowling trying to be seen as woke or progressive. calling me right wing or saying xyz abc 123 !@# will not take away from YOUR conservative thought patterns and beliefs.

if you don't have a diagnosis of DSD you are not intersex, you are a privileged little karen appropriating labels meant for groups you don't belong to. a biological female with cysts on her ovaries is not intersex, she's just ill and a victim of medical misogyny. you sound like an anti-vaxxer and flat earther when you ignore science and insist your feelings matter more. i get that you're rightwing so you have little time or patience for science (belief in gender in absolutely any form is inherently rightwing as gender is an oppressive social construct invented by the male sex and has zero basis in scientific fact - there are literally zero genders) but can you at least pretend in 2025 to try to pay attention to facts rather than waste yet another year with your souls and gods and feelings nonsense?

blah blah blah youre mad because im intersex and hot and youre sad and conservative about this topic. pcos is intersex and your opinion based on intersexist scientific views + biased sentiments isnt gonna do shit to change it wether you enjoy it or not. try again next week with your intersexist bullshit!

btw you cant just explode gender from existence! its engrained in society and the only way to loosen it up is by not conforming to the basics. youd know this if you had some backbone to understand things with experience. when i say things about gender i am coming from a background of extensive history with gender based oppression (as well as intersexism). you do not get a say in this for you clearly dont have the understanding of it beyond "theory".

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