Pidgeon Pagonis: Book Talk on Nobody Needs to Know: A Memoir

Nobody Needs to Know: A Memoir 

Pidgeon Pagonis, MA, has worked for over a decade as an intersex advocate, speaker, consultant, photographer, and filmmaker to shed light on the human rights violations endured by intersex people. Their goal is to help end the non-consensual irreversible medical procedures meant to discipline unruly intersex bodies. Their work has been essential for those who want to show up for intersex people in their lives but aren’t sure where to start.  

Whether advancing the intersex cause as the co-founder of the Intersex Justice Project (IJP), co-producing viral informational videos, creating art that centers intersex voices, appearing on the cover of the National Geographic “Gender Revolution” special issue, or being honored as a LGBT Champion of Change by the Obama White House, Pidgeon has staked out a place at the forefront of debates on intersexuality. In 2020, IJP’s #EndIntersexSurgery campaign succeeded in Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago becoming the first in the nation to halt and apologize for intersex surgeries. Little A Press published their memoir Nobody Needs to Know in 2023. 

This event is sponsored by the Hub for Student Inclusion & Community and the will + GSS Speaker Series. It is part of LGBTQ+ History Month.