the original gift link to the story has expired, so here’s another one. I worked on this for 2+ years and learned so much from the dozens of birth mothers who shared their experiences in open adoption.
“When white people talk about how we “made it,” we must also acknowledge that whiteness is an invisible and built-in advantage in how we achieve success.” @georgianndavis.bsky.social explains why, despite similar experiences, she isn’t like JD Vance.
Georgiann Davis’ account of growing up intersex and obese in a dysfunctional family is a ‘queer’ response to J. D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy. But will the Trump administration spoil her happy ending?
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/hillbilly-energy-middle-school-dropout-academic-tenure
In their new book, Five Star White Trash: A Memoir of Fraud and Family, ASA member Georgiann Davis @georgianndavis.bsky.social @unm.edu chronicles her surprising journey from middle-school dropout to professor. @nyupress.bsky.social
"No one can legislate away our existence" text with the interACT logo sits in a purple circle on top of a collage of dozens of intersex people and allies smiling, waving, holding hands with friends, playing instruments, and carrying intersex flags.
Intersex people have existed since the beginning of time and will exist until the end of time. No law, executive order, judge or advocate of pseudoscience can erase us. Their goal is to conceal any existence outside of an impossibly narrow sex binary. Our existence is resistance.
