Have you ever met a redhead? Someone with green eyes? Someone with intersex traits?
If you answered yes to the first two questions, you can likely answer yes to the third: being intersex is as common as having red hair or green eyes. And that’s almost definitely an undercount.
This week, Alicia Roth Weigel lays out what it means to have intersex traits, ... Show More
Aug 24
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Aug 19
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54m 24s
Aug 17
Lindsay Clancy Case Breakdown, HIV Social Safety Net, Going with the Flow
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38m 32s
Jan 2019
The way we think about biological sex is wrong | Emily Quinn
Did you know that almost 150 million people worldwide are born intersex -- with biology that doesn't fit the standard definition of male or female? (That's as many as the population of Russia.) At age 10, Emily Quinn found out she was intersex, and in this wise, funny talk, she s ... Show More
14m 4s
Dec 2020
The way we think about biological sex is wrong | Emily Quinn
Did you know that almost 150 million people worldwide are born intersex -- with biology that doesn't fit the standard definition of male or female? (That's as many as the population of Russia.) At age 10, Emily Quinn found out she was intersex, and in this wise, funny talk, she s ... Show More
14m 22s
Aug 2020
What it means to be intersex — and how the false sex binary harms us | Susannah Temko
For intersex people -- those born with sex characteristics outside the traditional definitions of female and male -- the stakes to appear "normal" are high. Drawing on her personal experience, Susannah Temko reveals the shame, prejudice and harm faced by the intersex community, a ... Show More
14m 29s
Aug 2025
What Does it Mean to Be "Semi-Well-Adjusted" and Queer? w/ Alyson Stoner
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1h 27m
May 2021
What it means to be intersex | Susannah Temko
For intersex people -- those born with sex characteristics outside the traditional definitions of female and male -- the stakes to appear "normal" are high. Drawing on her personal experience, Susannah Temko reveals the shame, prejudice and harm faced by the intersex community, a ... Show More
14m 27s
Oct 2023
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This week the NewlyWeds are back with an extra special guest: Alix Fox, the ‘decently indecent' writer, broadcaster and sex consultant on Sex Education… Alix is here to chat to Sophie and Jamie about getting down and DIRTY…Alix chats all things kink, keeping the sex life alive af ... Show More
52m 58s