• October 26th marks the anniversary of the first public protest by Intersex people in the United States.
Intersex is an umbrella term for people with variations in sex characteristics that don’t fit neatly in the binary of male or female. Some intersex people are born with varying reproductive anatomy or sex traits — some develop them later in life. About 1.7 percent of people are born intersex, according to a 2000 report by Dr. Anne Fausto-Sterling.
Since the 1960s, medical convention has been that intersex variations should be “corrected,” often through a combination of painful surgeries and hormone therapy starting from infancy or before a child can consent. Fierce Intersex activists like The Intersex Justice Project have made historical progress in the fight to #EndIntersexSurgery and on 1996 Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago became the first hospital in the United States to suspend the operations.
The United Nations deems these surgeries to be human rights violations because they can have significant consequences on physical and emotional health and are performed without consent.
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🖤 Why it’s okay to grieve when a public figure dies.
When a public figure dies, you may feel guilty for grieving for someone you didn't know and embarrassed that others may judge you. But it's a totally normal way to feel; death is sad.
It can be helpful to allow yourself to express your feelings to try not to worry about what others might think. This is your grief; your feelings are unique to you.
Our reactions to a famous death can also be compounded by the knowledge that lots of people around us are going through something similar, at the same time.
When there's a collective grief event, it can feel like there's more general 'permission' to feel sadness and to be openly emotional about grief in general. It can feel like a time when it's unusually socially acceptable to be openly sad and to talk about the losses in your life – recent or otherwise.
No matter how interesting we find a celebrity, or how much respect we have for a public figure, the reaction we have to their death may have more to do with ourselves than we might think.
@mariecurieuk
#queenelizabeth #queen #psychotherapist #grief
AFFAIRS or SHADOWS?
A lot of rumours of extramarital affairs have plagued the royal couple. We do not know if these rumours were just merely tabloid muck or there was some trust to them, but they were able to have a long marriage and fun together.
In this picture the Queen trying not to laugh as she passes her husband (Duke of Edinburgh) in uniform.
Adam Phillips in his little naughty book ‘Monogamy’ @adamphillips writes – ‘The couple is a resistance to the intrusion of the third, but in order for it to last it is indispensable to have enemies. That is why the monogamous can’t live without them. When we are two, we are together. In order to form a couple, we need to be three.’
They were a Couple that marked 73 years of marriage.
#couplesgoals #coupletherapy #psychotherapy