Anunnaki Ray's Photographic Stories, Human Rights Violations, Poems

Poem: Too filled with sorrow to cry anymore

Too filled with sorrow to even cry anymore This world took away who I am. It took away my purpose. I told you I was a boy, but what would I know?   You said I was too young to know. >:< This world took away who I am. I lived broken.   It upset… Continue reading Poem: Too filled with sorrow to cry anymore

Celebrations, Hope, Human Rights, Self-Determination

I CAN EXIST NOW! Thanks to a Lesbian trapped in a hairy man’s body.

In 2014,  I virtually met a man, who dealt with some of the same metabolic problems as ours.  Facebook had connected him to me through a support group I used to run.  I was his first contact who dealt with this same condition of ours. At the time I was pretty much roommates with my husband.… Continue reading I CAN EXIST NOW! Thanks to a Lesbian trapped in a hairy man’s body.

Culture Dysphoria, Human Rights, Intersex Awareness, Questions and Answers, Self-Determination

Why was I diagnosed with GENDER DYSPHORIA?

As a person born intersex, October 2014, I desperately needed to reclaim my true gender.  It was for health, mental and spiritual reasons.  It had become life or death for me at this point.  To get help, I had to seek out a transgender doctor, because no other doctor would go against my assigned gender… Continue reading Why was I diagnosed with GENDER DYSPHORIA?

Human Rights, Questions and Answers, Self-Determination

Are my Husband and I Gay Men Now? How We Became Sexual Minorities, Our Intersex Love Story.

How did my husband and I become a sexual minority? First of all, I did not want to be a sexual minority.  None of us get to pick how we are born.  I was born as a 46, XX Intersex Person.  My husband and I fell in love back in 1989. He never knew that… Continue reading Are my Husband and I Gay Men Now? How We Became Sexual Minorities, Our Intersex Love Story.

Human Rights, Intersex Awareness, Questions and Answers

Can We Really Identify All the Genders Out There?

The answer is: NO Here is why: To me, gender is a spectrum as vast as the Universe and is as personal as each and every person's experience here on Earth.  Gender is dictated by too many factors to mention here in the time allotted for one simple blog post.  Some try to give gender… Continue reading Can We Really Identify All the Genders Out There?

Cosmetic Genital Surgery, Gender Nonconforming, Intersex Awareness, Prejudice, Questions and Answers, Self-Determination, Transgender, Transphobia

I am an Intersex Person. I never felt like a Cisgender Person and I Relate to Some Transgender Men.

I am a person born with intersex traits, that was assumed to be female, and raised female.  A Cisgender person identifies as the gender they are assigned to at birth.  I do not, nor have I ever felt Cisgender, even when I appeared female.  All the therapy and surgery in the world could never achieve… Continue reading I am an Intersex Person. I never felt like a Cisgender Person and I Relate to Some Transgender Men.

Poems, Prejudice

Poem: And Once the Storm is Over, I was Buried Alive

And once the storm is over, I was buried alive I sit here wishing you had not buried me alive I was your brother I know I made a bad sister I was your son How could I be who I was never meant to be? Is this my punishment? And once the storm is… Continue reading Poem: And Once the Storm is Over, I was Buried Alive

Hope, Poems, Short Messages

Poem: I Promise to Be Your Voice: My New Year Resolution for 2016

I Promise to Be Your Voice I read about you, in Africa, sweet angel now in heaven. They cut your penis off, and you bled to death.   Your family blamed all the bad things of the world on your birth.  That you were supposedly a curse to this world, simply because you were born… Continue reading Poem: I Promise to Be Your Voice: My New Year Resolution for 2016

Celebrations, Hope, Self-Determination, Short Messages

It is nice to welcome 2016! At one time my wings were broken. I can fly now. Believe in your miracle. Believe in yourself!

BELIEVE in Yourself   "I am you, and you are me....If you want it you got it, you just got to believe, believe in yourself....we got to stand up if we are going to be free....  "   Lenny Kravitz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spPWnh3JvZ0#t=58 To all those who are struggling, don't give up!  SELF-DETERMINATION of GENDER is OUR… Continue reading It is nice to welcome 2016! At one time my wings were broken. I can fly now. Believe in your miracle. Believe in yourself!

Poems, Self-Determination

Poem: Here is the joke about being me; LGBTQIA+

LGBTQIA + is what they want us to say now Here is the joke about being me: L I was labeled as a LESBIAN as a teen in school G I am labeled as GAY now, as a man married to a man B I was labeled BI-SEXUAL too because at one time I did… Continue reading Poem: Here is the joke about being me; LGBTQIA+