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intersex Justice Project in the media

OZY: "Scalpels Down! Let Intersex Children Choose"
19th News: "After years of protest, a top hospital ended intersex surgeries. For activists, it took a deep toll."
BeLatina: "Medical Interventions on Intersex Children Need to Stop"
NYC Bar: Report on NYC legislation to promote intersex education (PDF)
Openly: "In a first, U.S. hospital apologizes to intersex surgical patients"
Scientific American: "Medicine’s Fixation on the Sex Binary Harms Intersex People"
StoryCorps: Pidgeon Pagonis and Sean Saifa Wall
them: "Boston Children’s Will Stop Some Surgeries on Intersex Youth"
them: "Activists Plan to Protest Nonconsensual Intersex Surgeries at New York Hospital"
Windy City Times: "Race and the Intersexed"
WBEZ: "Activists Who Spent Years Calling For An End To Surgeries On Intersex Children Celebrate Recent Victory: ‘We Did It’"

Press kit

Contact for media inquiries:

Co-founder Sean Saifa Wall (he/him)
[email protected]

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Photography Available for Media Use

Click images for text descriptions. Please attribute Chicago event photos to Sarah-Ji of Love & Struggle Photos, and New York event photos to Casey Orozco-Poore.

Saifa, Pidgeon, Mo, and Koomah holding an art piece by Koomah, bloody diapers representing intersex surgeries outside the front entrance to Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago.

Saifa and Pidgeon standing side by side at a protest - Saifa holds a microphone and is beginning to say something, Pidgeon is reading from a piece of paper.

Saifa smiles inside a train station. He has his arms hanging over and hugging Pidgeon and Ric. Pidgeon holds an EndIntersexSurgery sign.

Saifa holding a megaphone from behind. He stands in front of a crowd that holds EndIntersexSurgery signs and a large banner at a hospital entrance.

Saifa holds his hand up in a fist, and the other hand holds a microphone. He is speaking, a large crowd all wearing IJP t-shirts are standing behind him.

Previous Press Releases (PDFs)

2022 Columbia Medical Students Organize: Intersex Justice Activists and Columbia Students Demand Columbia’s Hospital End Medically Unnecessary Surgery
2021: Protesting Dr. Dix Poppas at Weill-Cornell: IJP and FEDUP host a second protest to demand accountability for the actions of the hospital's Chief of Pediatric Urology
2020: #EndIntersexSurgery Victory at Lurie: Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago agrees to stop vaginal and clitoral surgeries
2018: Protesting Dr. Dix Poppas at Weill-Cornell : IJP protests Dr. Dix Poppas, a leading practitioner of clitoral surgery on young children, alongside direct action group Voices4