Sean Saifa Wall

Sean Saifa Wall
Alma mater Williams College
Occupation Intersex activist and researcher
Known for Intersex and HIV advocacy

Sean Saifa Wall is a black intersex man, advocate for intersex rights and former president of Interact Advocates for Intersex Youth.[1][2] He is widely published, and works in intersex and HIV advocacy, and social documentary.

External video
" What It’s Like To Be Intersex", Lizz Warner, BuzzFeed

Career

Wall volunteered for Gay Men's Health Crisis at age 14, prior to studying at Williams College. He later travelled to Cuba with Pastors for Peace, documenting the local health system.[3] He served as president of Interact Advocates for Intersex Youth for three years.[3] During that time, Interact filed a lawsuit, M.C. v. Medical University of South Carolina, in the County of Richmond, South Carolina, in partnership with the Southern Poverty Law Center.[4][5]

In 2015, Wall joined an international advisory board for a first philanthropic Intersex Human Rights Fund established by the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice.[6] He has also developed an art project entitled EMERGE.[3]

As part of his advocacy work, Wall has been interviewed by Nightline, in a segment where he also confronted his childhood surgeon,[7] BuzzFeed,[8][9] HuffPost Live,[10] and written for The Advocate[2] and Quartz.[11] Wall spoke at TEDxGrandRapids in May 2015.[12]

Selected publications

See also

References

  1. ↑ Wall, Sean Saifa (2015). "Standing at the Intersections: Navigating Life as a Black Intersex Man". Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics. Volume 5, Number 2: 117–119.
  2. 1 2 Wall, Sean Saifa; Davis, Georgiann (February 26, 2014). "Op-ed: Hey, Fox News, Intersex Is Not A Punchline". The Advocate. Retrieved August 29, 2016.
  3. 1 2 3 "About Sean Saifa Wall". EMERGE. Retrieved 2016-08-29.
  4. ↑ Southern Poverty Law Center (2013-05-14), "Groundbreaking SPLC lawsuit accuses South Carolina, doctors and hospitals of unnecessary surgery on infant", Southern Poverty Law Center
  5. ↑ "Turning the Lens Inward: Sean Saifa Wall". Interact Advocates for Intersex Youth. October 15, 2014. Retrieved 2016-08-29.
  6. ↑ "Introducing the Intersex Fund team at Astraea!". Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice. Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice. June 16, 2015. Retrieved 2015-07-02.
  7. ↑ Murray, Ross (March 11, 2015). "Intersex advocates correct and clarify Nightline news report". GLAAD.
  8. ↑ "What It's Like To Be Intersex". BuzzFeed. March 29, 2015. Retrieved 2016-08-29.
  9. ↑ "This Video Explains What It's Like — And What It Isn't Like — To Be Intersex". Mic.com. March 30, 2015. Retrieved 2016-08-29.
  10. ↑ Bolles, Alexandra (April 22, 2014). "VIDEO: Intersex advocates talk stigma, health care, & family support on HuffPost Live". GLAAD. Retrieved 2016-08-29.
  11. ↑ Wall, Sean Saifa (April 26, 2015). "American surgeons are still mutilating children who don't look "normal"". Quartz. Retrieved 2016-08-29.
  12. ↑ "Theme: Constant / Change". TEDxGrandRapids. Retrieved 2016-08-29.
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