PRIDE Learning to love ourselves, when you wanted us to bleed to death. Love wins and love conquers all. PRIDE Standing up, over and over again, after you nock us down. Showing up to educate this prejudice world. PRIDE Knowing that we are not invisible, even if you try to erase us! Existing even when… Continue reading Poem: What is PRIDE?
My beloved friend, a treasure of Gold Priceless and Fearless a true gift from God She is the miracle that this cold world needed God works through her *** My beloved friend, who is a true ally With fire in their heart to stand with those oppressed Even when they know the same hate will… Continue reading Poem: My Beloved Friend, A True Justice Warrior
They know what they are doing They have done it ALL before History repeats Don't let them divide us! Black, Brown, Indigenous, LGBTQIAPNDX+, Women, and Disabled People Don't let them divide us! Good has to win and we will not let them destroy us Democracy Will Not Die. So Keep your HOPE So Keep your… Continue reading Poem: Don’t Let Them Divide Us!
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
I am a Whole Unmutilated Intersex Person. I am Human! Stop Harming Intersex Babies and Children! By Mx. Anunnaki Ray Marquez For Intersex Awareness Day October 26th, 2023
A person on social media wrote to me, "I am male?" When I asked if they were a man. I then told them this describes their endosex sex traits since they did not say they had intersex physiology. Then I asked: "What is your gender identity?" I still do not know this person's gender identity.… Continue reading To help end intersex genital mutilation, please stop conflating sex traits with gender identity.
Here is a way to add the “I” for intersex, responsibly to LGBT+. Demographics show that about 50% of intersex people identify as LGBTQ+ in some way. This means Intersex people will receive the collateral damage of homophobia, transphobia, queerphobia, in the form of intersex phobia. So please consider adding intersex responsibly to your human rights efforts.… Continue reading How to Add Intersex Responsibly to Your LGBTQ+ Human Rights Efforts
An important new word that honors the existence of intersex people: “ENDOSEX” A person is ENDOSEX if not born with INTERSEX physiology. Both can be assigned wrong At birth. Both can change their gender identity or sex traits, and be valid in who theybecome. A human being can be of any gender identity, man, woman, both or neither,… Continue reading A New Important Word: Endosex
My educational thoughts for the day: We have all been taught by colonialism, and people in power and control, to pathologize human diversity. This language mostly comes from people of power who are white, endosex, cisgender, heterosexual men. To this day, people in power and control invent what is "normal" and have judged, pathologized, and… Continue reading Some People in Power and Control Will Not Stop Regulating Our Intersex Lives as Nonconsenting Children.
Many anti-youth transgender bills have exclusions that promote the continued surgical harm of innocent intersex kids. In these bills, they will call an intersex child a“disorder of sex development” and wrongfully justify continuing to do cosmetic, medically unnecessary surgeries on non-consenting children. All children, endosex or intersex, deserve self-determination over their own bodies. Trans youth, and intersex babies/children,… Continue reading A Call for Action: Against Anti-Youth Transgender Bills
Mx. Anunnaki Ray Marquez 