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💜💛 “A different kind of superpower: what it means to be intersex” - This is the part of my Ted @tedxlondon talk that I am most proud of and is the most personal to me. 💜💛 If you want to watch the whole shebang please click the link in my bio (and feel free to reply to comments that suggest I am part of a vast conspiracy to take over the world 🌍).

💜💛 “A different kind of superpower: what it means to be intersex” - This is the part of my Ted @tedxlondon talk that I am most proud of and is the most personal to me. 💜💛 If you want to watch the whole shebang please click the link in my bio (and feel free to reply to comments that suggest I am part of a vast conspiracy to take over the world 🌍).

💜💛 “A different kind of superpower: what it means to be intersex” - This is the part of my Ted @tedxlondon talk that I am most proud of and is the most personal to me. 💜💛 If you want to watch the whole shebang please click the link in my bio (and feel free to reply to comments that suggest I am part of a vast conspiracy to take over the world 🌍).

💜💛 “A different kind of superpower: what it means to be intersex” - This is the part of my Ted @tedxlondon talk that I am most proud of and is the most personal to me. 💜💛 If you want to watch the whole shebang please click the link in my bio (and feel free to reply to comments that suggest I am part of a vast conspiracy to take over the world 🌍).

💜💛 “A different kind of superpower: what it means to be intersex” - This is the part of my Ted @tedxlondon talk that I am most proud of and is the most personal to me. 💜💛 If you want to watch the whole shebang please click the link in my bio (and feel free to reply to comments that suggest I am part of a vast conspiracy to take over the world 🌍).

This has been really really really swell so far. ☠️🐈

This has been really really really swell so far. ☠️🐈

This has been really really really swell so far. ☠️🐈

This has been really really really swell so far. ☠️🐈

This has been really really really swell so far. ☠️🐈

Susannah sings “October Sky” a cappella, what an absolutely beautiful voice. Paired beautifully with a cup of lemon ginger tea 👌🏽

Nice wee textures everywhere 🫠 💆‍♀️

Nice wee textures everywhere 🫠 💆‍♀️

Nice wee textures everywhere 🫠 💆‍♀️

Nice wee textures everywhere 🫠 💆‍♀️

Nice wee textures everywhere 🫠 💆‍♀️

Nice wee textures everywhere 🫠 💆‍♀️

Nice wee textures everywhere 🫠 💆‍♀️

🎙️Episode 3 of Untitled by You!!!🎙️

Experts estimate that up to 1.7 percent of the population are born with intersex traits. But what does being intersex mean? My guest, Susannah Temko opens up about her journey as a woman who was born with intersex traits. She reveals how she didn’t find out until she was diagnosed with cancer as a teenager and explains how the news has shaped her life.

LISTEN TO THE FUL EPISODE- LINK IN BIO!!!!

#podcast
#intersex
#interview
#podcastinterview

🎙️EPISODE 3 OF UNTITLED BY YOU IS OUT NOW 🎙️

Experts estimate that up to 1.7 percent of the population are born with intersex traits. But what does being intersex mean? My guest, Susannah Temko @xysuz opens up about her journey as a woman who was born with intersex traits. She reveals how she didn’t find out until she was diagnosed with cancer as a teenager and explains how the news shaped her life.

LINK TO THE FULL EPISODE IN BIO!!!

#intersex
#podcast
#podcastinterview

🍌 wrap wrap wrap up. eventful year.🦞
1. Ruth + B birthday time
2. Cooking with Renad
3. Bells back from 🇩🇰
4. Marrakech with Juliet
5. Juliet 3-0!!
6. As above
7. LSE: Back in the habit
8. Made my first short film with lots of help 🍿
9. Hellie Hen in 🇫🇷
10. Invention of Serge
11. Eurovision with bbs
12. Wide Awake where nothing bad happened
13. Best wedding of Hellie & Matthew
14. Hamptons with Tayara’s
15. Got papped and it was a gas!
16. Left the best flat ever, bought one, immediately destroyed it
17. Changed gears 🎥
18. Drank with the best
19. Karaoke with the best
20. Got really really really ridiculously stupid lucky 💍 @kareemtayara

🍌 wrap wrap wrap up. eventful year.🦞
1. Ruth + B birthday time
2. Cooking with Renad
3. Bells back from 🇩🇰
4. Marrakech with Juliet
5. Juliet 3-0!!
6. As above
7. LSE: Back in the habit
8. Made my first short film with lots of help 🍿
9. Hellie Hen in 🇫🇷
10. Invention of Serge
11. Eurovision with bbs
12. Wide Awake where nothing bad happened
13. Best wedding of Hellie & Matthew
14. Hamptons with Tayara’s
15. Got papped and it was a gas!
16. Left the best flat ever, bought one, immediately destroyed it
17. Changed gears 🎥
18. Drank with the best
19. Karaoke with the best
20. Got really really really ridiculously stupid lucky 💍 @kareemtayara

🍌 wrap wrap wrap up. eventful year.🦞
1. Ruth + B birthday time
2. Cooking with Renad
3. Bells back from 🇩🇰
4. Marrakech with Juliet
5. Juliet 3-0!!
6. As above
7. LSE: Back in the habit
8. Made my first short film with lots of help 🍿
9. Hellie Hen in 🇫🇷
10. Invention of Serge
11. Eurovision with bbs
12. Wide Awake where nothing bad happened
13. Best wedding of Hellie & Matthew
14. Hamptons with Tayara’s
15. Got papped and it was a gas!
16. Left the best flat ever, bought one, immediately destroyed it
17. Changed gears 🎥
18. Drank with the best
19. Karaoke with the best
20. Got really really really ridiculously stupid lucky 💍 @kareemtayara

🍌 wrap wrap wrap up. eventful year.🦞
1. Ruth + B birthday time
2. Cooking with Renad
3. Bells back from 🇩🇰
4. Marrakech with Juliet
5. Juliet 3-0!!
6. As above
7. LSE: Back in the habit
8. Made my first short film with lots of help 🍿
9. Hellie Hen in 🇫🇷
10. Invention of Serge
11. Eurovision with bbs
12. Wide Awake where nothing bad happened
13. Best wedding of Hellie & Matthew
14. Hamptons with Tayara’s
15. Got papped and it was a gas!
16. Left the best flat ever, bought one, immediately destroyed it
17. Changed gears 🎥
18. Drank with the best
19. Karaoke with the best
20. Got really really really ridiculously stupid lucky 💍 @kareemtayara

🍌 wrap wrap wrap up. eventful year.🦞
1. Ruth + B birthday time
2. Cooking with Renad
3. Bells back from 🇩🇰
4. Marrakech with Juliet
5. Juliet 3-0!!
6. As above
7. LSE: Back in the habit
8. Made my first short film with lots of help 🍿
9. Hellie Hen in 🇫🇷
10. Invention of Serge
11. Eurovision with bbs
12. Wide Awake where nothing bad happened
13. Best wedding of Hellie & Matthew
14. Hamptons with Tayara’s
15. Got papped and it was a gas!
16. Left the best flat ever, bought one, immediately destroyed it
17. Changed gears 🎥
18. Drank with the best
19. Karaoke with the best
20. Got really really really ridiculously stupid lucky 💍 @kareemtayara

🍌 wrap wrap wrap up. eventful year.🦞
1. Ruth + B birthday time
2. Cooking with Renad
3. Bells back from 🇩🇰
4. Marrakech with Juliet
5. Juliet 3-0!!
6. As above
7. LSE: Back in the habit
8. Made my first short film with lots of help 🍿
9. Hellie Hen in 🇫🇷
10. Invention of Serge
11. Eurovision with bbs
12. Wide Awake where nothing bad happened
13. Best wedding of Hellie & Matthew
14. Hamptons with Tayara’s
15. Got papped and it was a gas!
16. Left the best flat ever, bought one, immediately destroyed it
17. Changed gears 🎥
18. Drank with the best
19. Karaoke with the best
20. Got really really really ridiculously stupid lucky 💍 @kareemtayara

🍌 wrap wrap wrap up. eventful year.🦞
1. Ruth + B birthday time
2. Cooking with Renad
3. Bells back from 🇩🇰
4. Marrakech with Juliet
5. Juliet 3-0!!
6. As above
7. LSE: Back in the habit
8. Made my first short film with lots of help 🍿
9. Hellie Hen in 🇫🇷
10. Invention of Serge
11. Eurovision with bbs
12. Wide Awake where nothing bad happened
13. Best wedding of Hellie & Matthew
14. Hamptons with Tayara’s
15. Got papped and it was a gas!
16. Left the best flat ever, bought one, immediately destroyed it
17. Changed gears 🎥
18. Drank with the best
19. Karaoke with the best
20. Got really really really ridiculously stupid lucky 💍 @kareemtayara

🍌 wrap wrap wrap up. eventful year.🦞
1. Ruth + B birthday time
2. Cooking with Renad
3. Bells back from 🇩🇰
4. Marrakech with Juliet
5. Juliet 3-0!!
6. As above
7. LSE: Back in the habit
8. Made my first short film with lots of help 🍿
9. Hellie Hen in 🇫🇷
10. Invention of Serge
11. Eurovision with bbs
12. Wide Awake where nothing bad happened
13. Best wedding of Hellie & Matthew
14. Hamptons with Tayara’s
15. Got papped and it was a gas!
16. Left the best flat ever, bought one, immediately destroyed it
17. Changed gears 🎥
18. Drank with the best
19. Karaoke with the best
20. Got really really really ridiculously stupid lucky 💍 @kareemtayara

🍌 wrap wrap wrap up. eventful year.🦞
1. Ruth + B birthday time
2. Cooking with Renad
3. Bells back from 🇩🇰
4. Marrakech with Juliet
5. Juliet 3-0!!
6. As above
7. LSE: Back in the habit
8. Made my first short film with lots of help 🍿
9. Hellie Hen in 🇫🇷
10. Invention of Serge
11. Eurovision with bbs
12. Wide Awake where nothing bad happened
13. Best wedding of Hellie & Matthew
14. Hamptons with Tayara’s
15. Got papped and it was a gas!
16. Left the best flat ever, bought one, immediately destroyed it
17. Changed gears 🎥
18. Drank with the best
19. Karaoke with the best
20. Got really really really ridiculously stupid lucky 💍 @kareemtayara

🍌 wrap wrap wrap up. eventful year.🦞
1. Ruth + B birthday time
2. Cooking with Renad
3. Bells back from 🇩🇰
4. Marrakech with Juliet
5. Juliet 3-0!!
6. As above
7. LSE: Back in the habit
8. Made my first short film with lots of help 🍿
9. Hellie Hen in 🇫🇷
10. Invention of Serge
11. Eurovision with bbs
12. Wide Awake where nothing bad happened
13. Best wedding of Hellie & Matthew
14. Hamptons with Tayara’s
15. Got papped and it was a gas!
16. Left the best flat ever, bought one, immediately destroyed it
17. Changed gears 🎥
18. Drank with the best
19. Karaoke with the best
20. Got really really really ridiculously stupid lucky 💍 @kareemtayara

🍌 wrap wrap wrap up. eventful year.🦞
1. Ruth + B birthday time
2. Cooking with Renad
3. Bells back from 🇩🇰
4. Marrakech with Juliet
5. Juliet 3-0!!
6. As above
7. LSE: Back in the habit
8. Made my first short film with lots of help 🍿
9. Hellie Hen in 🇫🇷
10. Invention of Serge
11. Eurovision with bbs
12. Wide Awake where nothing bad happened
13. Best wedding of Hellie & Matthew
14. Hamptons with Tayara’s
15. Got papped and it was a gas!
16. Left the best flat ever, bought one, immediately destroyed it
17. Changed gears 🎥
18. Drank with the best
19. Karaoke with the best
20. Got really really really ridiculously stupid lucky 💍 @kareemtayara

🍌 wrap wrap wrap up. eventful year.🦞
1. Ruth + B birthday time
2. Cooking with Renad
3. Bells back from 🇩🇰
4. Marrakech with Juliet
5. Juliet 3-0!!
6. As above
7. LSE: Back in the habit
8. Made my first short film with lots of help 🍿
9. Hellie Hen in 🇫🇷
10. Invention of Serge
11. Eurovision with bbs
12. Wide Awake where nothing bad happened
13. Best wedding of Hellie & Matthew
14. Hamptons with Tayara’s
15. Got papped and it was a gas!
16. Left the best flat ever, bought one, immediately destroyed it
17. Changed gears 🎥
18. Drank with the best
19. Karaoke with the best
20. Got really really really ridiculously stupid lucky 💍 @kareemtayara

🍌 wrap wrap wrap up. eventful year.🦞
1. Ruth + B birthday time
2. Cooking with Renad
3. Bells back from 🇩🇰
4. Marrakech with Juliet
5. Juliet 3-0!!
6. As above
7. LSE: Back in the habit
8. Made my first short film with lots of help 🍿
9. Hellie Hen in 🇫🇷
10. Invention of Serge
11. Eurovision with bbs
12. Wide Awake where nothing bad happened
13. Best wedding of Hellie & Matthew
14. Hamptons with Tayara’s
15. Got papped and it was a gas!
16. Left the best flat ever, bought one, immediately destroyed it
17. Changed gears 🎥
18. Drank with the best
19. Karaoke with the best
20. Got really really really ridiculously stupid lucky 💍 @kareemtayara

🍌 wrap wrap wrap up. eventful year.🦞
1. Ruth + B birthday time
2. Cooking with Renad
3. Bells back from 🇩🇰
4. Marrakech with Juliet
5. Juliet 3-0!!
6. As above
7. LSE: Back in the habit
8. Made my first short film with lots of help 🍿
9. Hellie Hen in 🇫🇷
10. Invention of Serge
11. Eurovision with bbs
12. Wide Awake where nothing bad happened
13. Best wedding of Hellie & Matthew
14. Hamptons with Tayara’s
15. Got papped and it was a gas!
16. Left the best flat ever, bought one, immediately destroyed it
17. Changed gears 🎥
18. Drank with the best
19. Karaoke with the best
20. Got really really really ridiculously stupid lucky 💍 @kareemtayara

🍌 wrap wrap wrap up. eventful year.🦞
1. Ruth + B birthday time
2. Cooking with Renad
3. Bells back from 🇩🇰
4. Marrakech with Juliet
5. Juliet 3-0!!
6. As above
7. LSE: Back in the habit
8. Made my first short film with lots of help 🍿
9. Hellie Hen in 🇫🇷
10. Invention of Serge
11. Eurovision with bbs
12. Wide Awake where nothing bad happened
13. Best wedding of Hellie & Matthew
14. Hamptons with Tayara’s
15. Got papped and it was a gas!
16. Left the best flat ever, bought one, immediately destroyed it
17. Changed gears 🎥
18. Drank with the best
19. Karaoke with the best
20. Got really really really ridiculously stupid lucky 💍 @kareemtayara

🍌 wrap wrap wrap up. eventful year.🦞
1. Ruth + B birthday time
2. Cooking with Renad
3. Bells back from 🇩🇰
4. Marrakech with Juliet
5. Juliet 3-0!!
6. As above
7. LSE: Back in the habit
8. Made my first short film with lots of help 🍿
9. Hellie Hen in 🇫🇷
10. Invention of Serge
11. Eurovision with bbs
12. Wide Awake where nothing bad happened
13. Best wedding of Hellie & Matthew
14. Hamptons with Tayara’s
15. Got papped and it was a gas!
16. Left the best flat ever, bought one, immediately destroyed it
17. Changed gears 🎥
18. Drank with the best
19. Karaoke with the best
20. Got really really really ridiculously stupid lucky 💍 @kareemtayara

🍌 wrap wrap wrap up. eventful year.🦞
1. Ruth + B birthday time
2. Cooking with Renad
3. Bells back from 🇩🇰
4. Marrakech with Juliet
5. Juliet 3-0!!
6. As above
7. LSE: Back in the habit
8. Made my first short film with lots of help 🍿
9. Hellie Hen in 🇫🇷
10. Invention of Serge
11. Eurovision with bbs
12. Wide Awake where nothing bad happened
13. Best wedding of Hellie & Matthew
14. Hamptons with Tayara’s
15. Got papped and it was a gas!
16. Left the best flat ever, bought one, immediately destroyed it
17. Changed gears 🎥
18. Drank with the best
19. Karaoke with the best
20. Got really really really ridiculously stupid lucky 💍 @kareemtayara

🍌 wrap wrap wrap up. eventful year.🦞
1. Ruth + B birthday time
2. Cooking with Renad
3. Bells back from 🇩🇰
4. Marrakech with Juliet
5. Juliet 3-0!!
6. As above
7. LSE: Back in the habit
8. Made my first short film with lots of help 🍿
9. Hellie Hen in 🇫🇷
10. Invention of Serge
11. Eurovision with bbs
12. Wide Awake where nothing bad happened
13. Best wedding of Hellie & Matthew
14. Hamptons with Tayara’s
15. Got papped and it was a gas!
16. Left the best flat ever, bought one, immediately destroyed it
17. Changed gears 🎥
18. Drank with the best
19. Karaoke with the best
20. Got really really really ridiculously stupid lucky 💍 @kareemtayara

🍌 wrap wrap wrap up. eventful year.🦞
1. Ruth + B birthday time
2. Cooking with Renad
3. Bells back from 🇩🇰
4. Marrakech with Juliet
5. Juliet 3-0!!
6. As above
7. LSE: Back in the habit
8. Made my first short film with lots of help 🍿
9. Hellie Hen in 🇫🇷
10. Invention of Serge
11. Eurovision with bbs
12. Wide Awake where nothing bad happened
13. Best wedding of Hellie & Matthew
14. Hamptons with Tayara’s
15. Got papped and it was a gas!
16. Left the best flat ever, bought one, immediately destroyed it
17. Changed gears 🎥
18. Drank with the best
19. Karaoke with the best
20. Got really really really ridiculously stupid lucky 💍 @kareemtayara

🍌 wrap wrap wrap up. eventful year.🦞
1. Ruth + B birthday time
2. Cooking with Renad
3. Bells back from 🇩🇰
4. Marrakech with Juliet
5. Juliet 3-0!!
6. As above
7. LSE: Back in the habit
8. Made my first short film with lots of help 🍿
9. Hellie Hen in 🇫🇷
10. Invention of Serge
11. Eurovision with bbs
12. Wide Awake where nothing bad happened
13. Best wedding of Hellie & Matthew
14. Hamptons with Tayara’s
15. Got papped and it was a gas!
16. Left the best flat ever, bought one, immediately destroyed it
17. Changed gears 🎥
18. Drank with the best
19. Karaoke with the best
20. Got really really really ridiculously stupid lucky 💍 @kareemtayara

What it means to be intersex by Susannah Temko, @xysuz

“In other words, the most basic assumption we’ve made about our species, what we’re taught in schools, that sex is binary, just male and female is not correct. Like most things in this world, it is much more complicated than that.”

Susannah reveals the shame, prejudice and harm faced by the intersex community, as they’re forced to conform to a binary understanding of sex that ultimately hinders their health and well-being.

This pride month, we join Suz in calling all of us all to discard outdated notions of biological sex and accept the complexity within humanity.

P.S. You can watch to Suz’s whole #TEDxLondon talk now. Search, What it means to be intersex, on YouTube or TED now.

#intersex #sex #gender #pride #pridemonth #lgbtqia #lgbt #trans #nonbinary #tedxlondon #ted #tedtalks

Some days or weeks or months are more difficult than others - one of the hardest parts of my recovery is trying to convey what it’s like to experience life after a stroke or TBI, and what that means for your sense of self-esteem-worth-confidence-efficacy etc, and for connecting with others. This clip from Emilia Clarke gets it so right. ♥️🧠

Live. 🤮. Wow. (Excuse the short caption - having a bad 🧠 time so struggling to articulate properly but it’s officially a @ted talk). 😬💓..... link in bio 👩‍💻

Wowzers. Feel honoured to be quoted on something other than an awkward utterance on a night out. 🤯 Especially moving to be quoted by a charity providing vital services worth your time and support ♥️.
“Switchboard is a charity for LGBTQ people looking for community, support or information. We connect people and support them directly through specially developed Switchboard services or link them to other specialist organisations.
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Set up in 1975 Switchboard has been listening to, informing and supporting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people in Brighton & Hove and beyond.  Originally a helpline, we have developed additional services and now offer much more.” Follow and support @lgbtswitchboard 📞