15th -21st May is Mental Health Week.
In these videos, Hemi Sabharwal from MA and I talk about our own journeys with our mental health and wellbeing. We discuss the need for leaders’ involvement in the conversation and practical steps businesses can take to create a safe space for dialogue and employee authenticity
Hemi and I discuss our own journeys with Mental Health and Wellbeing and how stigma still stops the conversation.
Hemi and I discuss what we’ve done in the past to promote conversation and how leaders need to show up to create a safe space for discussion
8th November -Intersex Solidarity Day
Today, 8th November, is Intersex Solidarity day. It falls on the 8th to commemorate the birthday of Herculine Barbin, a French intersex person known for her memoir written in the mid-19th century. In her writings Barbin uses female pronouns and identifies as ‘female, albeit an exceptional female’. Having lived the first two decades of her life as a woman, a legal decision declared officially that Barbin was male. She left her lover and her job, changed her name and moved to Paris where she lived in poverty and wrote her memoirs. Barbin regarded herself as punished, and "disinherited", subject to a "ridiculous inquisition". In February 1868, she was found dead in her home having committed suicide.
🧬Millions of people around the world are born with physical or biological sex characteristics that don’t fit typical binary notions of male or female bodies. These characteristics can be anatomical, hormonal or chromosomal. Many, though not all, of these people identify as intersex.
🧮 According to experts, around 1.7% of the population is born with intersex traits – comparable to the number of people born with red hair.
❗ Being intersex has nothing to do with being transgender. Our physical characteristics have nothing to do with how we consider our gender identity, or with who we are attracted to.
🧑🏻🤝🧑🏿 An intersex person may be straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual or asexual, and may identify as female, male, both or neither.