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IWS Virtual Film Screening for Women's History Month: "A Normal Girl"

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Women's History Month

Activist Pidgeon Pagonis was born intersex, not conforming to standard definitions of male or female, and experienced genital mutilation as a child. Now Pidgeon is fighting the medical establishment, seeking to end medically unnecessary surgeries and human rights abuses on intersex people in the United States and around the world. An estimated 1.5% of the population is born with intersex traits. While most of these babies are healthy, their bodies are treated as a medical emergency. It is common practice for doctors to perform genital surgeries on intersex infants--often with disastrous results including total loss of genital sensation, lifetime synthetic hormone dependence, and being assigned a gender with which they do not identify. Through the story of Pidgeon’s remarkable journey and fight for bodily self-determination, A NORMAL GIRL brings the widely unknown struggles of intersex people to light (via WMM.com).

CLICK HERE to access the Virtual Watch Page for this film. Password: NORMAL22

Available to stream 24/day at your convenience starting Monday, March 21 at 10am to Friday, March 25, 2022 at midnight. Contact Terri at TLHAT@uga.edu for more information.

A complete list of Women’s History Month programming at the University of Georgia is available online: download the poster calendar HERE or visit https://iws.uga.edu/events/Women%27s-History-Month 

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