Jim Costich
My blogs
Blogs I follow
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- INTERSEX NEWS
- Intersex Pride
- Stub Blog
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Science |
| Occupation | Reitred |
| Location | Springville, NY, United States |
| Introduction | This is my intersex gay experiences etc. Blog space. I do some educating and advocacy publicly and online. I've been at it since the 90's and can be seen in the documentary; Intersexion. I was born in 1957 and wasn't subjected to infant genital mutilating surgeries. I have ambiguous genitals and insufficient gonads. My parents were told to call me a nick-name, dress me in yellow/green and wait to see if growth and development made my sex any clearer. It did! I'm right in between male or female. While time didn't differentiate my sex it sure did my gender. By 3 it was clear that I and others saw me as a boy so boy it was. This makes my story a bit different from many other intersex people. |
| Interests | Music/singing, cooking, dancing, reading, ceramic/glass arts, nature and hiking, animals, physics, philosophy, science, geology, humanism, gardening, mindfullness meditation for pain management and more. My career was medical laboratory technology; histotechnology. It disabled me but I'm still bouncing around. I am eclectic. |
| Favorite Movies | #1= Amelie, Intersexion (Intersex documentary I'm in), Coffee Date, Death Becomes Her, Desert Train (X), Torch Song Trilogy, Hitchikers Guide to Galaxy, King and the Clown, Naked Boys Singing, Nightmare Before Christmas, Hellboy, Star Trek - all and any, X-Men, Men in Black, 6th Element, dozens of LGBT films. |
| Favorite Music | Pop, Rock, Classical, Ancient, Opera, 30's-40's Standards (I love singing them!), Jazz, Soul, All kinds of Choral. I'm a choral singer too, Broadway, Swing. |
| Favorite Books | "Intersex & Identity", Sharon Preeves, Steven Pinker fan, also Daniel Dennett, Carlo Rovelli. Michael Schermer, "The Story of Earth" by Robert M. Hazen, "Bodies in Doubt - History of Intersex" Eliz. Reis, "Straight" Hanne Blanc; Bart D. Ehrman. Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Thich Hat Nan... I read almost continuously and rarely ever is it fiction. |