The Out of the Closet and Onto the Screen LGBTQ film series will screen the documentary No Box for Me on Tuesday April 7. Free and open to the public, the film will be shown at 6 p.m. in Textor 103.
M and Deborah, like an estimated 1.7 percent of people, were born Intersex - with sex characteristics that differ from binary understandings of male or female. Like many, they were foreced into medically unnecessary surgeries to "normalize" their bodies during childhood. The film reflects on ways intersex people seek to reappropriate their bodies and construct their identities.
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https://www.ithaca.edu/intercom/article.php/2020013010573851