In this episode, the MMFC is in conversation with Dr. Celeste Orr. Dr. Orr is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology, the Coordinator of the Gender and Women’s Studies program, and the Wendy J. Robbins Professor in Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of New Brunswick. Dr. Orr also sits on the Muriel McQueen Fergusson Centre’s Board of Directors. Dr. Orr and Dr. Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy (Director of the MMFC) discuss Dr. Orr’s award-winning book Cripping Intersex and how intersex and interphobia intersect with disability and ableism. Together they explore the cultural process through which bodies are understood, defined and classified, and share the importance of finding joy while engaging with difficult work. The Muriel McQueen Fergusson Centre for Family Violence Research acknowledges that it carries out its work on the unceded territory of the Wolastoqiyik, Mi’kmaq and Peskotomuhkati peoples. This territory is covered by the “Treaties of Peace and Friendship” which these nations first signed with the British Crown in 1726. The treaties did not deal with the surrender of lands and resources, but in fact recognized Mi’kmaq and Wolastoqiyik title and established the rules for what was to be an ongoing relationship between nations. We pay respect to the elders, past and present, and descendants of this land. We honour the knowledge keepers and seek their guidance as we strive to develop closer relationships with the Indigenous people in New Brunswick. Reference and resources: Activist/Advocacy OrgsBrújula Intersexual: https://brujulaintersexual.org/ interACT: Advocates for Intersex Youth: https://interactadvocates.org/ InterAction for Health and Human Rights: https://interaction.org.au/ Intersex Asia: https://intersexasia.org/ Intersex Canada: https://intersexcanada.org/ Intersex Persons Society of Kenya: https://intersexkenya.org/ SLIM: Strategy Lab for Intersex Movements: https://slimstrategy.org/ Books/Publications Adeline Berry, Intersex, Ageing, and Intersectionalities: https://www.routledge.com/Intersex-Ag... Western-Intersex-Hermeneutics-to-Intersex-Lived-Experience/Berry/p/book/9781041023463Georgiann Davis, Contesting Intersex: https://nyupress.org/9781479887040/co... Georgiann Davis, Five Star White Trash: https://nyupress.org/9781479840427/fi... Anne Fausto-Sterling, Sexing the Body: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/tit... Julianna Gleeson, Hermaphrodite Logic: A History of Intersex Liberation: https://www.versobooks.com/en-ca/prod... Julie A. Greenberg, Intersexuality and the Law: https://nyupress.org/9780814731895/in... Rebecca Jordan-Young and Katrina Karkazis, Testosterone: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978... Katrina Karkazis, Fixing Sex: https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/boo... Surya Monro, Adeline Berry, Morgan Carpenter, Daniela Crocetti, Sean Saifa Wall, Intersex, Variations of Sex Characteristics, DSD: Critical Approaches: https://www.routledge.com/Intersex-Va... Iain Morland, Intersex: A Manifesto Against Medicalization: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/interse... Celeste E. Orr, Cripping Intersex: https://www.ubcpress.ca/cripping-inte... Celeste E. Orr and Casey Burkholder, Special Issue: "On Intersex Joy," Feminist Theory: https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ftya... Pidgeon Pagonis, Nobody Need to Know: https://pid.ge/memoir Sharon Preves, Intersex and Identity: https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.or... Elizabeth Reis, Bodies in Doubt: https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title... Amanda Lock Swarr, Envisioning African Intersex: https://www.dukeupress.edu/envisionin... Hida Viloria, Born Both: An Intersex Life: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/tit... Hida Viloria, Maria Nieto, and Alex Law, The Spectrum of Sex: https://www.ubcpress.ca/the-spectrum-... Alicia Roth Weigel, Inverse Cowgirl: a href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqa0o4LVREYkFCNHN1SVhxOW5jQlUxM2dLTjB6Z3xBQ3Jtc0trVVVZUU9uRmNpaDlRTjBlZG
