Poems

Poem: Our 30th Wedding Anniversary

Forever yours Even if you are not here Vows that will never be broken even in death We would have celebrated our 30th Wedding Anniversary today Your legacy still lives on because you loved me Tonight I talked about you and our family again in Zoom I walk through my empty house now that the… Continue reading Poem: Our 30th Wedding Anniversary

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

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

Human Rights, Intersex Awareness, Intersex History, Intersex People, Jim Costich, The Man with the Hidden Playground

Thoughts of an Intersex Man on the Discovery that General Pulaski Was Likely Intersex | By Jim Costich

By James Costich April 8, 2019   It would seem that General Casimir Polaski, Revolutionary war hero serving directly under Washington himself was an intersex man instead of a male man. This is of great interest to intersex people who have been made to feel like lesser human beings. Otherwise, it is of very little… Continue reading Thoughts of an Intersex Man on the Discovery that General Pulaski Was Likely Intersex | By Jim Costich

Cultural Dysphoria, Intersex Awareness, Intersex Erasure, Intersex History, Intersex People, Prejudice

Please do not misgender Revolutionary War Hero, General Casimir Pulaski: Pronouns He/Him

  When I recently learned about General Casimir Pulaski, like when I have discovered other intersex people in history, I become elated and I celebrated.....but it was short lived.  Then my heart sank.  Here we were once again, in our binary world misgendering the past; a past that gave people like me more human rights… Continue reading Please do not misgender Revolutionary War Hero, General Casimir Pulaski: Pronouns He/Him