Author: Mx. Anunnaki Ray Marquez

Mx. Anunnaki Ray Gender/INTERSEX Activist: Anunnaki is a survivor, widower, parent to three adult children, musician, artist, and a seminarian at Meadville Lombard Theological School. Anunnaki is also a person born intersex whose social activist work and educational work focuses on an individual’s right to bodily autonomy and the right to express their true gender. Through personal narrative and education, Anunnaki works to build bridges of understanding so that all people, no matter how they label themselves, may experience the wholeness that is a basic human right in a socially just world. He believes that the self-determination of gender is every human being's human right. His greatest accomplishments so far is receiving Colorado's first intersex birth certificate and then becoming a TEDx Jacksonville Speaker with his talk "Born Intersex: we are human." Where in it, he shares with the world his intersex story and educates against genital and psychic mutilation.
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Poem: An Icon Has His Wings

Mx. Anunnaki Ray Marquez

Pete Burns, you are loved deeply by so many You have angel wings now Gone too soon, like my husband Dying way too young Eight years ago, you, an angel, left us Who changed this world forever You helped so many, including me You will never be forgotten Your legacy lives on Pete's Legacy is… Continue reading Poem: An Icon Has His Wings

Bridge Building, Civil Rights, Critical Race Theory, Cultural Dysphoria, Hate Crimes, Human Rights, Intersex Activist

Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) and Intersex People: How the Invention of Two Binary Systems Do Harm

Mx. Anunnaki Ray Marquez

I wrote this term paper for my Critical Race Theory Class, which I took this summer, 2024, at Meadville Lombard Theological School while working on my Master of Divinity. My professor was Dr. Barbara Fears, a Black woman from Howard University School of Divinity, an accomplished religious educator, Chaplain, Scholar, and Professor. I proudly received… Continue reading Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) and Intersex People: How the Invention of Two Binary Systems Do Harm

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Poem: Tattered and Torn Black Rose

Mx. Anunnaki Ray Marquez

Photo by T Leish Tattered and Torn Black Rose Tears always falling To laugh and scream at the same time Prisoners to our broken bodies Yet to dream of freedom some day Two of a kind Both tattered and torn Searching for something We will never find Perhaps I should leave here Go far away… Continue reading Poem: Tattered and Torn Black Rose

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Poems: Two Precious Birthdays in May

Mx. Anunnaki Ray Marquez

Veronica, Happy 20th Birthday! 2024 When you were born It was a very special day Your daddy was in the operating room with me I was draped with green surgical sheets A blinder from the chest down so I could not see my legs They cut you out of my body They brought you to me… Continue reading Poems: Two Precious Birthdays in May