Intervex (main blog)

Intersex - ze/zer/zers - science nerd - science fiction nerd

[intervexual]

Pinned post

This blog:

Intersex stuff & queer stuff! 🏳️‍⚧️

Science stuff 🐌

Also me:

I'm posting flags/coinings on @intervex

Moi:

Pronouns: ze/zer/zers preferred, will also respond to she/her/hers and xe/xer/[xer|xis]. I do not use they/them.

Intergender intersex (specifically fluid/flux: interdemiagender + interdemineutrois + interdemiwoman + interdemiandrogyne)

Interqueer 🌈 and cripintersex ♿️

I picked the username back when I identified as ipsogender; I've since realized I'm too agender for that. I don't want to cause linkrot or confusion by changing the username though.

Intersex art on my profile:

Intersex snail avatar

Biology was never binary

Intersex pride in space

End intersex surgery

Why did I block you?

Probably because you tagged your sexy photos with the intersex tag. I want to be able to follow that tag without seeing porn. Please stop spamming the intersex tag.

I also block people who write posts along the lines of "intersex/trans people are sick/disordered", "there are only two genders", etc.

(edited 2026-01-25)

[fremmedsprak]

Bringing back one of the best videos on the internet because you all need to smile today!

[flight-128]

I'm late en criss

[intervexual]

Unexpected intersex representation in Bon Cop Bad Cop 2 (2017)

Saw Bon Cop Bad Cop 2 with my partner yesterday, for French practice. Frankly, this movie is not very good. It's a poorly-written copagandistic buddy-cop comedy, and I'd rate it 2 out of 5 stars. I cannot recommend it for anything other than French (specifically Quebecois French) practice.

I was surprised the movie has some minor intersex representation! MC, the eccentric woman hacker they have on their police team, chews out the main characters at one point, revealing she is intersex. (Note: this scene is in French, I turned on English subtitles for the screenshots.)

The "and I'm a fucking 9.2!" line is delivered with pathos and doesn't feel like it's supposed to be a joke. The scene serves two purposes in the movie: 1. humanizing what has up until this point been an over-the-top eccentric character, and 2. setting up a joke for the Quebecois cop to tell his Ontarian partner he does in fact need to see a doctor.

The premise of the Bon Cop Bad Cop franchise is an anglophone cop has to work with a francophone cop. The tension is not just the linguistic gap but also the class gap. In Canada, French Canadians have been historically viewed as lower class. The francophone cop is the rough, working class, rules-breaking cop, and the anglophone cop is the straightlaced, educated, by-the-book cop.

The class commentary isn't quite as clear in the second movie. Like the first movie, the movie is linguistically interesting for its translanguaging and codeswitching. There are some genuinely neat ways that characters play with bilingualism, and some explicit commentary about how everyday Quebecois French differs from Parisian/Standard French.

The movie is full of huge plot holes, nothing about the criminal plot makes any sense when you think about it, the humour often rests on cheap stereotypes, the police are assumed to be good people, and police brutality is treated as a joke.

The intersex representation is extremely incidental. It's literally just the one scene that talks about it. MC appears throughout the film (her actor is listed fifth in the credits) and does not bring it up again. She is consistently gendered as feminine and not degendered as a result of her being "the wrong sex". Since the bar is in hell when it comes to intersex rep, I thought I'd make note of it!

[bayesic-bitch]

Starting my speech at the Omelas city council with a child acknowledgement statement

[jurassicpeanut]

No bond stronger than a disabled girl and her disabled cat

[painedandconfusedsblog]

If you see this:

It’s okay to sit down while doing anything in the kitchen. You don’t even need to be disabled or chronically ill. Your feet do not need any excuses. Rest them

It’s okay to cut potatoes in front of the tv while sitting on the couch.

Abled folks could learn a lot from the measures disabled folks take to adapt to their conditions and hack their environment and daily tasks so it benefits them in all the possible ways.

And - it is an investment in future self to learn the skill of adaptation should one fall ill or disabled for any reason.

[crippled-peeper]

“Psychotic people aren’t homeless in the streets or psych wards!!! some of us are playing video games” some psychotic people ARE homeless in the streets and in psych wards and they don’t deserve to fucking die for it or be forgotten or swept aside because they aren’t a convenient poster child for your symptoms RAAAAHHH

[tearlessrain]

I really do think an important component of activism is to make sure your motivation is based on a desire to help/improve things for the people being harmed by a system, and not hatred for the ones doing the harm. both for mental health reasons, and because either way you're training your neural pathways and it's gonna turn out a lot better for literally everyone if the question on everyone's mind after achieving a goal is "how/which people can we help next, what's the next step for improving things" and not "who do we need to attack next."

I'm not saying don't be angry, there are a lot of good reasons to be angry right now and it makes for an excellent kick in the pants, just don't define yourself by it or it's gonna poison you and potentially do collateral damage.

[roach-works]

the easiest people to attack will always be whoever’s closest and whoever’s vulnerable.

if you’re training yourself to enjoy the thrill of righteous violence, your easiest, quickest joy is going to be from attacking someone in your peer group, not whoever’s actually got the social leverage to be oppressing you.

this is called lateral violence and is the absolute bane of activist circles everywhere.

[mx-macintosh]

they are estrogen and testosterone. they are estrogenizing and androgenizing hrt. stop fucking calling them transfem and transmasc hrt. stop fucking calling them mtf and ftm hrt. stop fucking calling them feminizing and masculinizing hrt. stop going out of your way to exclude non-binary and intersex people.

[jaubaius]

[nabi3000]

[narcissistcookbook]

the second eel at the end in its little cuck shelter 💜

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

eel deets from @whitefangthefightingwolf

[reikomakoto]

[invisiblebard]

[mammalianmammals]

When ranchers in Utah's Rich County found eighteen sheep killed in March 2022, they assumed coyotes. USDA Wildlife Services flew a plane over the kill site and found something feeding on the carcasses that had only been confirmed in the state eight times in forty years. It was a wolverine. Utah sits at the extreme southern margin of the wolverine's North American range. The animal is built for the deep snow and high alpine of Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming, country above ten thousand feet where the winters last eight months and the terrain rejects everything that is not specifically engineered to survive it. A wolverine showing up in Utah's ranch country was not a routine predator complaint. It was a biological event. State wildlife managers had no protocol for it because they had never needed one. Biologists set specialized barrel traps near the sheep carcasses. Catching a wolverine in a live trap is considered one of the most difficult captures in North American wildlife management. The animal is trap-smart, solitary, covers enormous distances daily, and operates almost exclusively in terrain that humans struggle to access on foot. The odds of a wolverine walking into a barrel trap were close to zero. The next morning, a sheepherder found one of the trap doors dropped. Inside was a healthy, twenty-eight-pound male, estimated at three to four years old. It was the first wolverine ever live-captured by biologists in Utah's history. The team sedated him, packed his body in ice to keep his core temperature stable during the examination, fitted him with a GPS tracking collar, and released him into the deep snow of the Uinta Mountains. For researchers who had spent careers studying an animal they almost never got to see, that collar was the first real-time data source on wolverine movement the state had ever produced. The data that came back over the next twenty-five days confirmed what wolverine biologists in other states had documented but Utah had never been able to verify on its own ground. The animal logged over 195 miles of travel in less than a month. He did not drift south toward lower elevations or leave the state. He locked into the high peaks of the Uintas above ten thousand feet and ran massive looping circuits through avalanche chutes, rocky ridgelines, and snowfields deep enough to bury a man standing upright. The daily distances he covered would qualify as an endurance event for a human athlete on flat ground. He was doing it through the most physically punishing terrain in the state, in winter, alone, at elevation, without stopping. The eighteen dead sheep that started the whole sequence were never repeated. The wolverine moved into the high country and stayed there, operating in a landscape so remote and so hostile that the only evidence of his existence was the GPS signal pinging coordinates from ridgelines that no person had visited in months. The collar proved what the forty years of scattered sightings could only suggest. The wolverine was not passing through Utah. It was living there, quietly covering nearly two hundred miles of frozen alpine rock in less than a month, completely invisible to every human being in the state.

Source: Utah Division of Wildlife Resources / USDA Wildlife Services

[plain-flavoured-english]

As a Greek, in response to the current controversy about Matt Damon being cast as Odysseus, I'd just like to share that one of the moments that changed my brain chemistry as a kid was reading a novelized version of the Odyssey and coming across the following description of Odysseus when Circe sees him for the first time and thinks he's hot: "his hair curled like a clematis and his eyes were very brown".

So may I present my own casting choice for Odysseus:

[plain-flavoured-english]

Excuse me???

[ruffboi-mags]

you are right and you should say it.

[instantduckninja]

Is this the face of a man who would put his own infant in front of a plow to avoid going to war?

Absolutely not

You know who would try that shit?

Is this the face of a man who would defy the very gods to get home to his wife?

You know who would defy the gods just to show he could get away with it?

[fluffmugger]

The last thing Penelope's suitors ever see:

[one-hell-of-a-sheep]

why does oscar wilde take 150 pages to write something he could literally say in a paragraph

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

gay

[yurious-george]

compelling argument

[mossadspydolphin]

what does this say about victor hugo

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

no he was just french

[jam-the-hologram]

R.R Tolkien?

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

autistic infodumping

[elden-12]

Put this together and I dread to think how long a novel by an autistic gay Frenchman would be. :p

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

[darknymfa-art]

Marchosauria day 28, Nqwebasaurus thwazi. Had a little fun with the long wispy feathers on this one. Plus a little iridescence on the black for funsies.

[lifesgrandparade]

I want you guys to all start making a bigger stink about Tumblr's Age Verification Horseshit.

[lifesgrandparade]

Like they tried to change Reblogs and people rightfully got up in arms, this is a LOT worse. In order to have access to any sort of thing dubbed mature, and We haveALL seen what they think is mature, Everything from a black and white photo of a black woman's arm, to posts about IUD recalls, to a nude painted by a 17th century artist, to anything involving the word Trans; you have to send your personal information to a third party site that WILL get hacked, and you will be doxxed. And they can say "Oh shit, well it wasn't us who sent your name address and gender identity to Moldovan teenagers, here's a couple extra minutes in the ball pit.

That's bad enough!!!!!!!! But the entire idea of needing permission from state authorities to access anything labeled mature by our friendly AI overlords is some fucking Boll shit. Die Gedenken Sind Frie baby. This is all a reaction to people getting uppity about their lowly lowly rights and is being propped up by the same bad actors tht have made life unlivable. Fuck that shit.

"Well it's only being rolled out in Brazil and UK" Yeah, to start. "Well they're being forced to do this by laws." YOu know it's always really funny when these tech giants (Or whatever you call owning tumblr dot com) get really antsy about laws considering they pick and choose which ones they abide by.

This is a breaking point and it's going to be very interesting to see how we proceed from here.

[teh-nos]

i get this now and it won't let me click through to any 'mature' blogs :(