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Anick

@IntersexAF

Focusing on children’s rights, intersex/Variations in Sex Development/Differences in Sex Development (DSD). Personal views.

 London, England
Joined May 2018
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Hi All! I used to speak a lot about being intersex here. Then I stopped. But I never stopped reflecting, questioning, or writing. I’ve moved my voice to Medium, and I’m exploring things I never could say in a single post. Here’s what you’ll find 🧵
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This Pride Season, Stop Asking Me Whether Intersex Should Be Included: Every Pride, I see the same question return: Should intersex people be included in LGBTQIA+ communities? I’ve never found that particularly interesting. open.substack.com/pub/anickw…
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I Hear You. I Respect You. And I Am Not Fully With You. open.substack.com/pub/anickw…
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It’s about growing up alongside Gaga rather than “knowing” her. About what art can do when it becomes part of the architecture of your becoming. About performance, survival, and why strange people often find each other through symbolism before language. open.substack.com/pub/anickw…
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It’s 2am and I’ve somehow written a 12 minute essay about @ladygaga, parasocial relationships, queerness, performance, intersex shame, identity construction, celebrity culture, and the psychological function of pop music. Which I realise sounds deeply unwell.
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It’s 2am and I’ve somehow written a 12 minute essay about @ladygaga, parasocial relationships, queerness, performance, intersex shame, identity construction, celebrity culture, and the psychological function of pop music. Which I realise sounds deeply unwell.
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It’s about growing up alongside Gaga rather than “knowing” her. About what art can do when it becomes part of the architecture of your becoming. About performance, survival, and why strange people often find each other through symbolism before language. open.substack.com/pub/anickw…
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Every brand wants to be a therapy session, social movement, prestige drama, and moral authority all at once. Meanwhile, the product itself is often buried underneath the performance. open.substack.com/pub/anickw…
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I read the BBC explainer on “biological sex” and trans rights today. As an intersex person, I want to respond to one specific part of it.
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Reducing sex to “egg or sperm” may describe a reproductive model at species level. It does not meaningfully capture every individual life.
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Intersex people should not be used as supporting evidence in culture-war arguments. We are not boundary markers. We are people.
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We spend a lot of our lives being “sorted” by ideas of sex and gender. My essay is not a hot take or a manifesto. It is my experience that gender is a chaotic, multi-layered mess. And how embodiment still matters even when identity shifts. anickwrites.medium.com/gende…
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9/ The essay does not offer a neat “how to fix your masculinity” guide. Instead, it sits with questions like: •How do we honour our genuine preferences without turning them into hierarchies of worth? • How do we notice our snap judgements without letting them drive the car?
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4/ One of the ideas I explore is the “gender see saw”. In many queer relationships, when one person leans into softness or campness, the other quietly stiffens into “the man”. No one agrees to it. It just happens in the space between you.
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