Episode 221: Val Hill

It's Intersex Awareness Day, and we are thrilled and honored to at long last have on our first ever out intersex guest, the brilliant Val Hill! Val (they/she) is a queer intersex community advocate who facilitates the group Club Intersex for the L.A. LGBT Center, so you would never in a million years guess that, pre-pandemic, she didn't even *know* the umbrella term "intersex!" Val shares how a routine sports physical at the age of fifteen led to them learning that they have complete androgen insensitivity syndrome (CAIS), something they thought was a random genetic occurrence specific to their family. It wasn't until decades later during lockdown that Val finally discovered the robust intersex community that exists online, and fully embraced the beautiful "liminal space" that intersex folks inhabit. We learned a ton in this episode, and we're so grateful to Val for having this truly expansive conversation with us!

Follow Val on Instagram at @lookwhatvalposted, and check out the L.A. LGBT Center's Club Intersex group at @clubintersex! Also mentioned in this episode...

Intersex activist Tatenda Ngwaru's GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/safety-and-wellbeing-for-tatenda-ngwaru

Additional intersex folks and orgs to follow on Instagram: @intersexjusticeproject / @interconnect_support / @saifaemerges / @pidgeon / @xoxy_alicia / @red.moonproject

The Intersex Awareness Day 2022 Insta Live that Val did with Jahni Laggett (@queen_jahni_) is posted on Club Intersex's Insta at https://www.instagram.com/p/CkMp3Yap65Z/