Intersex Stories: Not Surgeries w/ Pidgeon Pagonis

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Intersex Stories: Not Surgeries w/ Pidgeon Pagonis

November 30, 2017 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Type: Lecture

This Event:
* Is LGBTQ hosted
* Has LGBTQ content
* may be of interest to the LGBTQ community

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Student Association at UWM; UWM LGBT Resource Center; UWM Inclusive Excellence Center; LGBT Studies and other campus partners, invite UWM students, scholars, and community activists to join us as we host Pidgeon Pagonis, who has a decade’s worth of experience giving talks and facilitating intersex workshops around the globe. In 2015, they received the LGBT Champion of Change Award from the White House. They can be seen on the cover of National Geographic’s January issue titled, Gender Revolution.

Pidgeon is an intersex activist, educator, and filmmaker. They are a leader in the intersex movement’s fight for bodily autonomy and justice. Their goal is to deconstruct the dangerous myths that lead to violations of intersex people’s human rights, including common, irreversible medical procedures performed without consent to make bodies conform to binary sex stereotypes.

‘Intersex Stories, Not Surgeries’ encourages participants to grapple with the ways in which the Medical Industrial Complex (MIC) has consistently forgotten the first tenet of the Hippocratic Oath – First Do No Harm – when it comes to marginalized communities. While the MIC’s history is tattered with ableism, racism, classism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia—this presentation will specifically highlight the ways in which it has violated intersex people’s human rights. For over a century, intersex people have had no voice in their medical “care” and “treatment”, which has lead to dire consequences. Key events throughout intersex history will be introduced to help participants understand why intersex activists across the globe have united to demand intersex bodily autonomy and justice.

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UWM Student Union
2200 E Kenwood Blvd
Milwaukee, WI 53211 United States
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(414) 229-4825
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