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Tai talks to Ignacio Rivera about sex, kink, intimacy, polyamory, and their project HEAL (Hidden Encounters Altered Lives) which aims to end child sexual abuse. Ignacio Rivera is a queer, trans, two-spirit, Black Boricua Taíno who prefers the gender-neutral pronoun “they.” Ignacio is an activist, writer, educator, filmmaker, performance artist and mother. Ignacio has over 20 years experience on multiple fronts including economic justice, anti-racist anti-violence and anti-imperialist work, as well as mujerista and LGBTQ movements. Ignacio is the founder of Poly Patao Productions (P3), sporadically blogs on WhatTheySaidBlog.com and is one of the founding board members of Queers for Economic Justice. Ignacio is a 2016 Just Beginnings Collaborative Fellow. JBC is a movement building platform designed to initiate, cultivate and fund strategic efforts to end child sexual abuse. As a fellow, Ignacio founded and Directs The HEAL Project. Ignacio was named one of 5 Trans Writers who are Redefining Masculinity 201

cw: nonconsensual medically unnecessary surgeries, suicide, medical trauma Tai talks to Pidgeon Pagonis about the interactions of intersex people with the medical industrial complex, their new film “The Son I Never Had,” the place of intersex people in the LGBTQI umbrella, and the need for support systems for intersex folks. Dr. Cary Costello from the University of Milwaukee also joins to talk about the words endo sex and ipso gender, and the opportunities for coalition building between trans and intersex communities. Pidgeon (Chicago, IL) is an intersex activist, educator, and filmmaker. They are a leader in the intersex movement’s fight for bodily autonomy and justice. Their goal is to deconstruct the dangerous myths that lead to violations of intersex people’s human rights, including common, irreversible medical procedures performed without consent to make bodies conform to binary sex stereotypes. Pidgeon has a decade’s worth of experience giving talks and facilitating intersex workshops around the glob

Tai talks to LaSaia Wade, Stephanie Skora, and Glitter Millhouse Record of Chicago’s Trans Liberation Collective (TLC) about how they started organizing together and what work they’re doing in Chicago to create the conditions in which all trans people can be liberated. The Trans Liberation Collective, or TLC for short, is a radical Chicago-based collective founded completely by trans organizers. Our goal is nothing short of full liberation for all trans people. We will tolerate nothing about us, without us! Our organizing centres trans people, and mobilizes cis accomplices to achieve liberation for every trans person. -Photos of March 3 Rally https://www.facebook.com/loveandstrugglephotos/photos/a.1927197657516609.1073741918.1729022184000825/1927202234182818/?type=3&comment_id=2003875336515507¬if_t=comment_mention¬if_id=1501632571617765 -Pride Disruption Demands and Coverage (1) https://radfag.com/2017/06/25/happening-now-trans-led-coalition-shuts-down-chicago-pride-parade/ (2) http://www.teenvogu