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Becoming the People Podcast with Prentis Hemphill

S2 Ep8: Breaking Binaries and Intersex Justice with Sean Saifa Wall

Becoming the People Podcast with Prentis Hemphill

Prentis Hemphill

Society & Culture

51.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Joining Prentis today is scholar, somatics practitioner, and co-founder of the Intersex Justice Project, Sean Saifa Wall. In this episode, Saifa explores the truth of black intersex people's navigation through community, western medicine, and through lineage, exposing the inherent harm of adherence to binary.

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0:00.0

What becomes possible when we reject binaries?

0:17.8

Can we make room for what's real and who we actually are?

0:21.6

Have you considered what harm goes into enforcing unnecessary standards and who disappears in

0:27.9

our insistence on rigidity?

0:31.1

As Sean Cipherwall shares in this episode, Justice for Intersex Children and Adults

0:36.5

is the work of healing generations, and setting us and our futures free from the violence

0:41.9

of binaries.

0:43.5

Sean Cipherwall is a black, queer, intersex activist, scholar, and somatic practitioner.

0:49.2

He is the co-founder of the Intersex Justice Project, which is a grassroots initiative

0:54.9

by intersex people of color, and he's my longtime friend.

0:59.3

I always enjoy how deep and joyful our conversations are, and I hope that you enjoy this episode.

1:05.5

What's up, Cipher?

1:08.5

Yo, what's up?

1:09.5

Can you talk to me, baby?

1:13.9

I'm really glad to be in conversation with you, and being in conversation with you in

1:17.6

kind of a different way today.

1:18.8

I get to talk to you about your work and your offering into the world, and maybe a kind

1:26.0

of slightly deeper way than we usually get into it.

1:29.2

Yeah, that sounds dope.

1:32.2

Excited to be with you.

1:35.3

I wanted to start, usually we start with a question of kind of where are we, and we'll

1:40.1

get there, but I wanted you to just, if you could remind me how we met.

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